A performance by San Francisco Indie Pop rockers The Cubby Creatures on the KALX Live! radio show from August 7, 1999. The set list is...

Chicken and the Wolf/The Chase (starts at 00:40)
Mister Mister Mister (starts at 03:15)
Rhythm Guitar (starts at 09:30)
Amorphous Love Song (starts at 15:48)
Samy (starts at 20:38)
Tom LaBrie (starts at 25:40)
Diseases (starts at 30:08)
Up Song (starts at 35:04)
Sexual Buddha (starts at 39:25)
Don't in the Middle (starts at 43:05)

Cubby Creatures on KALX Live! August 7, 1999

Originally released on the Embryo 4: Homemade Music by Bay Area Musicians compilation, this track has been unavailable in digital form until now.

Embryo 4: Homemade Music by Bay Area Musicians

Last Chance

The Songs were written by The Cubby Creatures (except “Life Is Insane,” which was written by Jol Devitro and The Cubby Creatures, and “Keep in Mind,” which was written by K.M. Soehnlein and The Cubby Creatures), recorded by Bill Fisher, and mixed and mastered by Bill Fisher at Rodent Records (now Light Rail Studios) in San Francisco and at Harlan Street Studios in Oakland. Benjamin Tinker recorded the narration at the Magic Shop in South San Francisco. Additional overdubs were recorded at Bill and Lorna's house in Richmond Annex. Additional mastering was conducted by Jason Gonzales at the SoAr Song Shack in San Francisco. The instrumental ambient pieces were composed and recorded individually by their corresponding creators: That Hideous Strength, Squelchy, Snitch, Jason Gonzales, and Alec Way.

Jesus Christ, You're Crazy: A Rock Opera/Song Cycle/Post-Ironic Parable

Jesus Christ, You're Crazy

Friday Mayhem 26 7PM-10PM
Hosted by Mitch LeMay

San Francisco indie label Cubby Control Records head man Brian Weaver will join Mitch LeMay for a 3-hour spotlight of retrospective, new, and upcoming releases, rare recording & unreleased material. We will celebrate the 20th anniversary of seminal label group The Cubby Creatures in a special featurette. Expect to hear a freewheeling and funny show with lots of sounds from label bands REPTIEL, THE CUBBY PREACHERS, GNOM I SNEGOVIK, THE DRUGGLES, plus clips, commentary, and assorted anecdotes from the SF live music scene.

Cubby Control Records Retrospective on KFJC May 26, 2017 Part 3

Until the Quake Comes

This song is a reworking of an earlier Cubby Creatures' song, "I Have Ebola Now." The original song was written by Jol as a sort of ironic take on feeling paranoid about getting sick. Ebola was making the news in the mid-1990s with outbreaks in Gabon and Zaire, which is when the original song was written. That song is very prescient for this coronavirus time but perhaps a little too close to home. However, the reworked version, "I Have No Irony Now," is also prescient but probably easier to stomach right now. The song was re-arranged by Bill with lyrics written by Karl and was in response to the period after the 9/11 attacks in which it seemed that you could not make light of what happened. Irony was dead. The world had changed and would never be the same again we were being told. The Cubby Creatures never recorded the song (in any of its arrangements) in a studio setting, but this version performed on KALX 90.7FM Berkeley in November 2001 was well recorded and a mostly spot-on performance.

I Have No Irony Now (Live on KALX, Nov 2001)

From the seminal Cubby Creatures album "After the Deprogramming,' originally released on Rodent Records, but now available through Cubby Control Records.

Static Fuzz

Age of Smoke

The classic Beatlesque pop song from the Cubby Creatures

Knitting Bee

Who Remembers Kathy Barra?

The Cubby Creatures were born out of San Francisco's Mission District in 1997, the musical arm of artist collective the Cubby. Jol Devitro née Joel Perez (guitars, vocals) and Brian Weaver (bass, vocals) formed the group, and the band's first lineup featured Emily Limón née Davis (violin), Karl Soehnlein (now writer K.M. Soehnlein) (clarinet), and Matt M. (drums and samples). The lineup later included Jason Gonzales (drums) and Bill Fisher (keyboards, vocals).

The band played its first show at Artists' Television Access in San Francisco (Dec. 7, 1997) and continued to play out in various clubs and galleries in the Bay Area, as well as touching down sporadically in other parts of California, through 2006. In 2000 they appeared in New York City as part of CMJ's annual marathon.

They began publishing their zine The Cubby Missalette in 1997. It continues to be published to this day.

They created the Web site cubby.net in 1998. As of 2011, the site houses Cubby Control Records, the label launched by Brian Weaver. The Cubby Creatures' catalog is available there, along with those of Cubby friends Reptiel, Thee Druggles, blääcmäjik, and Cubby Creatures progenitor Coolidge, as well as Weaver's "Embryo Compilations."

In 1998 the band produced and performed its original rock opera The World of Tina and followed it up with 2000's indie-rock variety show A Telethon for the Benefit of Suzie. In 2005 they premiered Jesus Christ, You're Crazy, another rock opera.

The Cubby Creatures, along with Arianne Vasquez, also produced Cubbyvision for San Francisco public access channel 29 from 2000 to 2002. Members of the band appeared frequently amongst a cast of recurring characters that included Huck Forest, Mr. Fantastic, the Reverend Myrtle Motivation (played by real-life Cubby chaplain Trismegista Taylor), Rhoda "the apocryphal sister of the Virgin Mary" and Kathy Barra (title character of the 2001 Cubby Creatures EP "Who Remembers Kathy Barra?", brought to life here by John Vlahides).

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