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Shake Ray Turbine

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Years active
  
1995–2000

Albums
  
The Sauce of Solution

Members
  
Ben Dickey (vocals, guitar) Clay Simmons (vocals, guitar) Dustin Clark (bass 1995-1999) Jeb Bell (bass 1999-2000) Chris Wilson (drums) Richard Matson (vocals summer 1995)

Origin
  
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Genres
  
Rock music, Indie rock, Math rock

Record labels
  
Harlan Records, File Thirteen Records

Similar
  
Soophie Nun Squad, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Nate Powell

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Shake Ray Turbine was a DIY rock/punk band from Little Rock, Arkansas. They formed in the summer of 1995 and played their first show that August with Richard Matson as vocalist. The band toured and recorded from 1996-1998. As of late 1998, Shake Ray Turbine had material for their second full-length album (with several songs reaching the 7-14 minute marks), but none of these songs were ever recorded; their last show as Arkansas residents was with Fugazi in Conway, AR in November 1998. The band relocated to Philadelphia around January 1999; soon after, Dustin Clark left the band and Jeb Bell (Fracture) took over on bass.

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This new lineup became The Unfixers and recorded an album at Philadelphia studio, Meat Locker. Soon after, they disbanded and the album remained unreleased. One track of that album, Pace, was released on a File Thirteen Records compilation. They played their last show in Philadelphia around the end of 2000.

Ben Dickey's subsequent band Amen Booze Rooster recorded and released one of the unrecorded 1998 Shake Ray Turbine songs, "Lemon Ice Box Pie", on their 7" on Max Recordings and Hot Dog City Records in 2003.

Members have also played in the bands Amen Booze Rooster, Blood Feathers, Flip'n Sync, Soophie Nun Squad, William Martyr 17, Revolver Red, The Cannonballs, Hiram Ragan Experience, The Insides, Lazy Fair, The Earthworms, Hundred Years War, Heads Are Heavy, Fuse of Ire, Basil, Stoney Jacksons, Full Service Quartet, Sean Na Na, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Lapse, and Aspera.

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Albums

  • The Sauce of Solution CD on File Thirteen Records joint release with Harlan Records. November 1997.
  • Untitled, unreleased album recorded in 1999 as The Unfixers
  • EPs

    Split 7" with Full Service Quartet on Landmark Records
    Split 7" with The Divine Hookup on Donut Friends Records

    Compilations

    Song, Pace, on the Listen to What I'm Made Of compilation CD (As The Unfixers)

    Trivia

  • Drummer, Chris Wilson, went on to play drums for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
  • John Pugh, drummer for popular indie/funk/dance band !!! appears as a guest vocalist on tracks 10 and 11 of The Sauce of Solution
  • Songs

    Murder in an AquariumThe Sauce of Solution · 1996
    RosettaThe Sauce of Solution · 1996
    The Gig Is UpThe Sauce of Solution · 1996

    References

    Shake Ray Turbine Wikipedia