tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52088712108631775242024-02-07T14:09:08.715-08:00MonocerotisAll things related to Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Witch Ape Studio and Tad Doyle.Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-53582780554613429972012-05-08T14:35:00.000-07:002012-05-08T14:44:49.034-07:00New website for TAD, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth and Witch Ape StudioThe new website for TAD, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth and Witch Ape Studio is up and operating.
There you can find information about goings on along with merchandise and links as well as news and contact information for us.Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-67689912039671186532011-09-02T13:18:00.000-07:002011-09-02T13:18:25.126-07:00West coast this SeptemberBROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH is embarking on a West coast this September. Hell yeah! Wait 'til you witness this aural assault!
Get the demo here BOTSC Band Camp
2-Sept :: Portland, OR @ Plan B w/ Cull, Norska and Negative Queen
3-Sept :: Chico, CA @ Monstros w/ Exhausted Prayer, Cold Blue Mountain and Armed for the Apocalypse
4-Sept :: Oakland, CA @ Eli's Mile High Club w/ Walken, KowloonTad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-70338533616783565202010-04-13T23:10:00.001-07:002010-04-13T23:24:07.800-07:00The Maple ForumThe Maple Forum is a short-run label created with the intent of helping release the music of artists I respect. The focus is not on sales or who can move the most units. This is an in-house operation, geared toward those who still believe in music enough to directly support the people making it. Releases will be limited and sold through The Obelisk page. Essentially, this is a new forum for Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-15983556232365129252009-11-20T14:15:00.000-08:002009-11-20T14:31:40.881-08:00INDIANIndian: I love this band. I have heard the new demo and it crushes. I believe INDIAN have set the new standard in doom metal. This video is not the new stuff. Just so you know. Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-82574208313879906072009-11-06T08:12:00.000-08:002009-11-06T08:46:54.417-08:00London CallingI met Pete and Catherine of the London, UK Doom Metal band Pombagira through my friends Lesbian who had toured in Europe together.We spent two days together at Studio Witch Ape and captured some huge riffs of monumental size and girth as well as beauty that goes with sweet valleys of blues influenced lushness and simplicity. Pombagira are a couple of musicians who not only play intuitively Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-67021661384101822812009-10-08T11:01:00.000-07:002009-10-08T12:55:43.392-07:00What's nextWe will be unveiling two new songs at our record release.You can get one of them here.Lot's of shows coming up here and there. We are also playing a private party soon at an undisclosed location. Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-80878013527414185632009-10-01T08:12:00.000-07:002009-10-01T13:16:19.372-07:00BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH / MICO DE NOCHE 10” Split Hits the streetsVIOLENT HIPPY RECORDS presents…….BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH / MICO DE NOCHE 10” SplitRELEASE DATE: October 13, 2009Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, led by Seattle music legend Tad Doyle (TAD, Hog Molly), has joined withfellow Pacific Northwest heavies Mico De Noche and Violent Hippy Records to bring you a very limited(500 copies) debut vinyl release. Available for preorder now click here Select Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-29537456019519662922009-07-03T10:14:00.001-07:002009-07-03T10:14:58.022-07:00Brothers of the Sonic Cloth MySpace BlogMySpace.com Blogs - Brothers of the Sonic Cloth MySpace BlogShared via AddThisTad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-63162686096314437872009-06-24T08:04:00.000-07:002009-06-24T08:13:43.926-07:00What I have been listening to1. "Planet of the Apes original 1968 soundtrack" composed by Jerry Goldsmith Amazing textures and killer percussion with primitive motifs. Goldsmith is a master in his use of silence as a part of the music. This has been a mainstay lately.2. Yob - "The Great Cessation" Every Yob record is an amazing journey and this one is the best yet. Mike S. is singing so awesomely it brings tears to my eyes. Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-31855866192971388572009-06-23T06:46:00.000-07:002009-06-24T08:03:53.826-07:00Split 10" vinyl release to come by Halloween 2009BOTSC is announcing plans to do a split 10" vinyl release with their friends Mico De Noche. The split 10" release is slated to start recording in July for the Brothers at Studio Witch Ape and for Mico De Noche at Temple Sound in Port Orchard, WA with Tony Reed in his studio. We are hoping to have this record ready for consumption as early as September 2009. Tentative release date for the split isTad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-89762642824288849782009-03-06T16:43:00.000-08:002009-06-16T10:25:44.993-07:00BOTSC Limited Demo 2009We just finished up recording and mixing our two song demo at Studio Witch Ape here in Seattle. Track 1 - La Mano Poderosa 12:22Track 2 - I Am 8:22. The total length clocking in at just over 20 minutes. We will be sending out a number of press and promotional only copies with a different artwork.we hope to have a full length release this year or possibly the beginning of next year. In the Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-85295075323499847032009-03-06T16:28:00.000-08:002009-03-06T16:41:42.015-08:00Return of YobWe just finished a very fun and successful trip south to Portland to play the Return of Yob show with our friends Iommi Stubbs and YOB. What a weekend it was. You can read more about what happened here. We had a blast and sold 26 demos out of the 50 limited that we have made. Once they are gone they are gone. We will have more available at the next show (see the sidebar of this blog for dates).Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-7706519841474238662009-01-30T10:52:00.000-08:002009-01-30T12:04:33.245-08:00Recording RequinWe have been very busy busy busy indeed. I have been engineering a recording for a band that is best described as a modern day Black Flag with excellent discordal stabs not unlike a school of Le grande Requin Blanc (aka Carcharodon carcharias) Ravenously voracité du bas ventre du schlok de corporation faible et banal que la plupart des personnes écoutent sur la radio et sont heureuses avec être Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-71665748776415990502009-01-12T11:09:00.000-08:002009-01-12T11:36:30.243-08:00BOTSC in the studioWe will be bringing a limited run of 50 numbered demo CDs with hand made packaging and art work designed by our drummer Aaron Edge to our PDX show with Yob and Iommi Stubbs at the Ash Street Saloon on Satuday, Feb. 28, 2009. We are pleased that we are able to be a part of this monumental musical event and bringing this very collectable demo to our friends in PDX is just a pleasure. The demo will Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-81201631749325946162008-12-18T10:57:00.000-08:002012-02-18T15:19:04.895-08:00Rabby the cross-eyed fungus licker and the attack of the Dingus Faddiddle Whapper Ponjos in SNOWPOCALYPSE 2008So, I took my lovely wife to work today and got stuck in the snow on the way back to the house after dropping by work.. There was no one at work so I thought it better than to freeze my ass off at the 30 degree Fahrenheit office. In a day where there is snow (here in Seattle the locals aren't used to snow that the rest of the nation gets dumped with every year) I thought it wise to get home and Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-32805622653803599192008-12-16T20:25:00.000-08:002008-12-16T22:10:57.173-08:00Tribute to a friendI wrote this little ditty about our cat that passed away in April 2008. Although the song was written in 2006 a year or so before the little fellow died. Recorded at Studio Witch Ape. Peggy played bass and acoustic guitar and sang, I played the percussion items and electric guitar and sang and our good friend Seven played lead guitar. It is a fun little remembrace of the one we called Kyuss aka Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-19975557267152640712008-11-30T18:24:00.000-08:002008-11-30T18:26:23.591-08:00Brothers of the Sonic ClothTad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-58475954931526116782008-10-27T10:45:00.000-07:002008-10-27T11:07:02.450-07:00Tad Doyle Reverbfest video Interview on Brothers of the Sonic ClothVideo interview with myself about our music from our show at the Seattle Weekly's Reverb Fest.Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-3261063513868056822008-10-20T19:50:00.000-07:002008-10-24T18:16:26.968-07:00Why Mike S. is is the Clint Eastwood of Doom Metal....
Spaghetti Westerns, Clint Eastwood and Mike Scheidt
I recently watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and was thinking about the first time I saw this masterpiece of a movie. I was very young and my older brother Buz took me to a theatre in Boise where I grew up. The film had just come out and Buz was on a date with his girlfriend Cheryl who later became his life long wife and friend. I was Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-49869603975484792032008-06-02T08:16:00.000-07:002008-06-09T14:44:52.862-07:00The Brothers (aka BOTSC) play 6/6/2008On Friday 6/6/2008 Brothers of the Sonic Cloth will be playing the middle stot at the Jules Maes Saloon in Seattle's Georgtown on Airport Way. Hollywood Lightweights and Madraso will be playing too. We are really looking forward to this show because we are getting really tight and playing the songs well and also because I will get to see my former band mate Mike Mongrain (playing drums for Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-53813258238955355902008-03-24T10:56:00.000-07:002008-05-30T14:36:40.909-07:00The first show - photo by Brandy Rettig->Well it's approximately a year later and the band has gone through some changes.First of all, Eric Akre has replaced Steve Weide on drums. Steve wanted to pursue playing bass and Eric came on board in October. Eric is really laying down the sounds that I was looking for in a drummer, (no easy shoes to fill as I have really high standards for a rhythm section, being a Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-60816004111430101182007-06-29T13:19:00.001-07:002007-07-03T14:33:18.702-07:00The new projectI am pleased to announce that the new band is coming together and here is the line up so far:Steve Weiderhold (The original TAD drummer. Steve played on God’s Balls, Salt Lick, and 8-Way Santa CDs and was the mastermind of FOIL, Steve’s project from a few years ago) is on Drums.Pegadeth (formerly of San Diego punk scene NOISE GOD and INCITING RIOTS and also was around in various projects in the Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-74275211778328882952007-05-24T09:44:00.000-07:002007-05-26T09:38:17.332-07:00The TakeoversIt's almost halfway through 2007 and life is good. Check out The Takeovers and their new CD entitled "Bad Football". If you like early Bowie (I sure do)then this the ticket. These guys are really talented and fun and they rock.Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-79820266882134069622007-05-22T15:38:00.000-07:002007-07-04T00:31:28.228-07:00Drummers Part 2So there are two candidates for drummer for the new project. One, is longtime friend and the first TAD drummer Steve Weiderhold. Steve has also been involved with FOIL and his newest band HELLEN BACK. Steve, as of the writing of this post, finished recording with HB last weekend. He is in good spirits and I feel very confident in his abilities as a drummer as well as a guitar player (of which heTad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208871210863177524.post-24257464187187624742007-05-10T12:53:00.000-07:002008-05-29T07:31:03.230-07:00Coming SoonWelcome.After the breakup of the band TAD I took some time off from music to purge that which was not useful to me anymore. This lead to a personal catharsis of the mind and body and soul. After Hog Molly broke up and the short-lived HOOF (one of my side projects with some old and new friends)It has been quite a while since I have played music live. To all of the TAD and Hog Molly fans out there Tad Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17462828360366725553noreply@blogger.com4