Adam Gates, Filthy Ape, Madame Blavatsky Overdrive, IfThenWhy, etc. - Information and Discography

Selected Discography

Artist: Monkey Rhythm
Title: I've Been Burned / Buried In The Sand
Label: Unknown
Catalog Number: Unknown
Format: Cassette
Release Date: 14 September 1984
Country: US
Tracks:
1. I've Been Burned
2. Buried In The Sand
Music on "Buried In The Sand" by Adam Gates. Music on "I've Been Burned" by Adam Gates, Charles Risby & Graham Clarke.
All lyrics by Adam Gates.
Data obtained from a search of the United States Copyright Office.

Artist: Monkey Rhythm
Title: This Must Be The Place
Label: 415 Records
Catalog Number: 415-0011
Format: 12" vinyl
Release Date: 1985
Country: US
Tracks:
1. This Must Be The Place
2. Heaven's Gate
3. Buried In The Sand
4. Happiness Died At The Willow Tree
Personnel:
- Adam Gates: Bass Guitar & Vocals
- Graham Clarke: Guitars & Keyboards
- Chuck Risby: Drums
- Piano on "Heaven's Gate" by Derek Greenberg
- Cello on "Heaven's Gate" by Guryneth Monks
- Storm on "Heaven's Gate" by Mother Nature, Inc.
Credits:
- All songs by Gates & Clarke except "Buried In The Sand" which is by Gates.
- All lyrics by Gates.
- Produced by Matt Wallace and Monkey Rhythm at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California, except "Happiness Died At The Willow Tree" and "Heaven's Gate", produced by John Baccigaluppi and Monkey Rhythm at Heavenly Recording Studios, Sacramento, California.
- All songs mixed at Prairie Sun Studios by Matt Wallace.
Run-off groove etchings:
- A: ...GOD CREATED RIDDUM ...AND HE SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
- B: THIS IS MON-KEE RID-DUM
Lyrics

Artist: Various
Title: 415 Records: Still Disturbing The Peace
Label: Liberation Hall
Catalog Number: LIB-5025
Format: CD, digital (Bandcamp, Amazon Music)
Release Date: August 18,2020
Country: US
Tracks:
1. This Must Be The Place (3:19) - Monkey Rhythm
For full details see This Must Be The Place
See also Bill Kopp's companion book "Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave"

Artist: Various
Title: Harsh Betty's Party Favorites
Label: Mad Rover
Catalog Number: 2.1
Format: LP
Release Date: 1986
Country: US
Tracks:
1. Take A Look (3:19) - One Handed Clapping
Lyrics by Adam Gates
Music by John Baccigaluppi and Adam Gates
Adam Gates - lead and backing vocals, bass, keyboards, and drum machines
John Baccigaluppi - guitar, keyboards, drum machine, and backing vocals
Craig Lavaich - voice
Engineered by John Baccigaluppi and Pat Docker
"Here's one that clearly aimed at springboarding the artists, Adam Gates and John Baccigaluppi, at a guest spot on William Buckley's "Firing Line", maybe the April Fools edition. Over a polyrhythmic bed that sounds like two King Crimson tracks laid on top of one another, the heart of this offering is a desultory spoken-word amble through a series of subjects only brave men would dare raise on a record. Red-hot topics like soap operas, girlfriend abuse, sexual forbearance and it's relation to Buddy Ebsen, Ronald Reagan and his inability to...well, I'll just let them tell it. I don't even mind that it doesn't rhyme."
"Adam Gates appears courtesy of Monkey Rhythm and 415 Records"

Artist: Phonosychographdisk vs. The Filthy Ape
Title: Mooch The Moose: Smack Dealer To The Stars
Label: Stray Records
Catalog Number: SR0015
Format: CD, LP
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Country: USA
Tracks:
1. Madame Blavatski Overdrive (16:57)
2. Chinese Opium Addiction 1927 (7:12)
3. You're The Only One Around Here Who Knows What Mommy Wants 13:07
"It's time that you lower your standards, do more drugs." / "Lower your standards and do more drugs." / "Do more drugs."
Produced by The Filthy Ape.
Mastered by Albert Benichou
"The record player was lovingly treated by Disk. The Filthy Ape paid attention. Machines were used."
"Technical Hog played squelch bass on track 3."
"Butthouse played hair bass on track 1."
Recorded at the Center for Alcohol and Marijuana Treatment, Oakland, California, 2001
"And always please remember: in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king."
All songs copyright 2001 Filthy Ape
Creative direction: Ape
"Email A Ape! filthyape@filthyape.com"
CD comes in a digipak.

Artist: Adam Gates
Title: The Occult
Format: Digital Download (FLAC, MP3)
Release Date: September 22, 2013 ?
Tracks:
1. Books (4:44)
2. Entropy (5:06)
3. Turn Off The Porn (4:25)
4. Greta (1:31)
5. Saint Germain (2:48)
6. Four On The Floor Frenchman (3:14)
7. The Dark Stuff (3:27)
8. The Writing Class (2:20)
9. Go Punk! (3:41)
10. Optimist's Prayer (3:50)
11. We're Light From A Dead Star (7:53)
Notes:
- zip file
- Full album can be heard on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S32HqzKqvvE

Artist: Adam Gates
Title: Sub-Standards
Format: Digital Download (FLAC, MP3)
Release Date: October 6, 2013 ?
Tracks:
1. I Fall In Love Too Easily (2:20)
2. Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me (3:26)
3. Indigo (4:48)
4. I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (4:15)
5. My Funny Valentine (1:54)
6. No One Knows I'm Gone (1:24)
7. The Thrill Is Gone (2:39)
8. True Faith (5:57)
9. It Was A Very Good Year (3:19)
Notes:
- Covers of some of Adam's favorite songs.
- zip file

Artist: Probe
Title: Arcane Textual Strategies
Format: Digital Download (FLAC, MP3)
Release Date: November 7, 2013 ?
Tracks:
1. Baby Lou's Dream (3:58)
2. Moral Athletics (4:58)
3. The Dark One Vs Larz Hoobler (1:57)
4. The Molten Tablets (4:00)
5. The Quet Majesty (3:06)
6. The Squire of the Glade (3:16)
Notes:
- Musicians:
  - Adam Gates: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys, Treatments
  - Geoff Marx: Keys, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Treatments
- zip file
Full album can be heard on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1t8ZAZcZ8s

Artist: Electric Apricot
Title: Quest For Festeroo (soundtrack)
Label: HIP-O Records
Catalog Number: B0010810-02
Format: CD
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Tracks:
1. Hey Are You Going To Burning Man? (7:46) - Electric Apricot
2. Backroads Of My Mind (4:13) - Electric Apricot
3. Uncle Pete's Party (7:36) - Electric Apricot
4. Sugar Train Blues(6:30) - Electric Apricot
1. Yog Sagoff (Live) (19:48) - Electric Apricot
Adam is credited as Steve 'Aiwass' Hampton Trouzdale.
Electric Apricot members are: Les Claypool, Adam Gates, Bryan Kehoe, Jonathan Korty.
Per Wikipedia, all Electric Apricot tracks were recorded at Rancho Relaxo on May 25, 2005 except for "Yog Sagoff" which was recorded on the same dat at the Sweetwater Saloon.

Selected Links and Info

The Filthy Ape:
- The Filthy Ape: ~~http://www.filthyape.com/~~ Some content mirrored here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.filthyape.com/, as well as a page mirrored from Stray Records: https://web.archive.org/web/20010825211439fw_/http://www.strayrecords.com:80/disk_vs_ape.htm
- The Stray Records site ~~http://www.strayrecords.com/~~ mirrored at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.strayrecords.com/ mentions a number of Gates/Filthy Ape projects that appear to either not exist, were never released, or did not result in recordings on this page https://web.archive.org/web/20010708215543fw_/http://www.strayrecords.com:80/noforcefield.htm:
  - "worked with Asphodel Records' Naut Human on the "Iso Ambient Orchestra" (Throne of Drones)"
  - "A yet to be released break beat album titled "The Filthy Ape Presents DJ Win Win's House of Irrefutable Chop Chop" is slated for release on the Gonerville Records Label"
  - "an "all bass" album with DJ Disk"
  - "an electro album with DJs Disk, Flare, and Toad Man"
  - "The Filthy Ape is also part of the trio "Tornado of Urine" with DJ Disk and Butthouse (from the dub influenced band Ben Wah)"
- The Gonvervill Records site ~~http://www.gonervill.com/~~ mirrored at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gonervill.com/ also mentions one of the same projected releases on this page https://web.archive.org/web/20030816101331/http://www.gonervill.com:80/coming/:
  - "Gonervill Breaks Vol. 3: DJ WinWin, the premier DJ from Saipan! The Filthy Ape presents "DJ WinWin's House Of Irrefutable Chop Chop""
Monkey Rhythm
- Known Monkey Rhythm members other than Spent Poets members: Graham Clarke [guitar, keyboards], Charles (Chuck) Risby [drums], Brian MacLeod, Jeff Trott.
Adam's wikipedia page (lots of un-sourced, un-verified data added by an unknown contributor, reader beware): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Gates
Adam's IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5108425/
IfThenWhy: ~~http://www.ifthenwhy.com/~~ The site did not mirror well: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ifthenwhy.com/
Primus
- Primus' "Sailing The Seas Of Cheese": additional fisherman, Bastardos bass, Bastardos vocals
- Primus' "Tales From The Punchbowl" album: illustration for "Over The Electric Grapevine"
- Primus' "Tales From The Punchbowl" interactive CD-ROM: art & animation
- Primus' Rhinoplasty: backing vocals on "The Family And The Fishing Net"
- Primus' "Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People" DVD/CD Packaging: Creative Direction, Design & Layout (credited as Adam Gates, FilthyApe Creative Services)
- Primus' "Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People" DVD: Creative Director and Interface Design (credited as Adam Gates, FilthyApe Creative Services), Sound Design (credited as FilthyApe)
- Primus' "Hallucino-Genetics Live 2004" DVD: Interface, Packaging & Live Projects: Adam Gates - FilthyApe, also credited under "Primus Crew"
- Primus' "Blame It On The Fish" DVD: Interface & Packaging by Zoltron Vs Adam Gates
- Les Claypool's "5 Gallons Of Diesel" DVD: Interface & Packaging by Zoltron Vs IfThenWhy, Illustrations by Adam Gates
- Interview with Adam regarding his work on live visuals for Primus.
- Interview with Les Claypool where he reveals that "Over The Electric Grapevine" is about an incident that took place with Adam.
- Adam is quoted multiple times in Greg Prato's history of Primus: Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine: Insight into Primus and the World of Les Claypool
The Sanchez Brothers
- The Sanchez Brothers website (requires flash): http://www.sanchezbrothers.com/
  - "Sanchez Lament" http://www.sanchezbrothers.com/music/sanchez-lament.mp3
  - "Fuggetaboutit" http://www.sanchezbrothers.com/music/fuggetaboutit.mp3
- The Sanchez Brothers MySpace page: https://myspace.com/thesanchezbrothers
Live score for the film "HOLLYWOOD ARCHÆOLOGY FILMS - Edited for Les Claypool by Lowell Darling" on September 11, 1997 at Gallery 16.
- Les Claypool: Bass
- Adam Gates: Guitar
- Jeff Marx: Drums
- Film viewable at the Gregory Edwards Studio site
Multiple sources describe Gates as having filled in on bass with Blind Illusion after Les Claypool left the band during a tour in either 1987 or 1988. Sources conflict. There is YouTube footage of a Blind Illusion show in New York City on September 24, 1998 that features Les, so presumably Adam replaced him after that...
Misc. Audio/Visual/Graphic Design/Software Work:
- Ben Wa's album "Disciples Of Retro-Tech": Graphic design for the packaging (credited as The Filthy Ape)
- DJ Disk's album "Scarecrow Willie - Platinum Lobster Breakbeats": The Filthy Ape is credited for "creative"
- "Brain Has Made The Worst Drum Instructional DVD Ever" DVD: Artwork, Print & Menu design (credited as Adam Gates)
- "Death to Primus" poster
See also Adam's work with Beanpole.

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