How Does It All, Hurt So Good?The reality is in this head. Mine.
A band brought to life from the pages of a Thomas Pynchon's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49, channeling the fictitious four-piece band from the book, The Paranoids. With a sound influenced heavily in "alternative" roots, before "alternative" stopped being truly so, Lot 49 possessed overtones of The Smiths, The Chameleons, early David Bowie. Given this sonic lineage, the band leveraged a unique sound, to say the least.
Lot 49 was the inaugural band to play and christen Duncan Westley's Madhouse; Santa Barbara's most immodest bar. The band shared the stage with Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers), and a few SB bands, including This Ascension and Extract. The band started playing together in the early nineties in a huge meat locker in Santa Barbara's lower east side. Kileen, Texas was the first song written by the band in reaction to the massacre. Other early titles included Keyholes, Mary-Go-Round and Pensive Expressions. Fans of Lot 49 were diverse and wide-spread. They included several prominent local, southern California musicians, including the bass player from the Stone Temple Pilots (STP), Rob DeLeo.
The band dissolved in 1996 as its founding members found life pulling them in different directions. Scott now plays and teaches ukulele and still resides in Santa Barbara. Mike moved to Maui, Hawaii. Josh and Kevin relocated to the east coast and occasionally still play music together to this day, under the project moniker Salt.
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Exponents (Single)
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Lonely Planet
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Russ Castillo Sessions
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