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Future Pigeon

 
Artist: Future Pigeon

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Danny Preston

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  • Genres: Reggae
  • Representative Albums: "The Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon

Biography

Future Pigeon is an L.A.-based group featuring Jason Mason, Brandon Wells, Danny Preston, Jeff Cairns, and Grant Vanderslice of Wiskey Biscuit; Dave Scher ("Farmer Dave" of Beachwood Sparks); and Eddie Ruscha, Jr., aka "the Dungeonmaster" (Dada Munchamonkey, ex-Maids of Gravity, ex-Radar Bros.). Their music is a combustible mixture of reggae and dub music (inspired by recordings by Lee "Scratch" Perry and King Tubby, among others) combined with homespun country-fried rock elements. Their blissed-out live performances are often somewhat experimental in nature, where they can be seen sharing the stage with musicians huddled over guitars, basses, pedal steel, various turntables, guitars, keyboards, samplers, and other instruments. Future Pigeon has performed with pioneering British dub producer Adrian Sherwood and Scientist (Hopeton "Scientist" Brown). In 2001, the group released their debut album, Golden State of Dub, on Wiskey Biscuit's own L.A.-based Shipwrecords label. Their 2006 album The Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon found the band working with Ranking Joe and Mikey Dread. ~ Bryan Thomas, All Music Guide
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Future Pigeon is an American punk/dub band from Los Angeles, California, contemporary to the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Future Pigeon are an award-winning underground band from LA; they are often associated in performances with other more famous members of that scene such as the late Elliott Smith, Smokey Hormel, Hank Williams III, and others. For example, Future Pigeon performed at Elliott Smith's memorial concert. Future Pigeon also performed a dub version of Elliott Smith's "Waltz #2 (XO)" for the short film/documentary Strange Parallel.

Future Pigeon are also featured in the movie Southlander (which also features Elliott Smith, in a small role as a bus driver). The semi-fictional Future Pigeon of that film includes Beth Orton ("Rocket") as lead vocalist.

The song "Evil" appeared in an episode of Weeds in September 2007. After the episode, the song appeared on the Itunes most downloaded list. Keyboardist, Danny Preston is now performing as Rainbow Arabia with his wife, Tiffany.

Also their song "Gift Tax" has appeared on the video game Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.

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