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

• Selected Discography [on-site]
• Selected Links and Info [on-site]
• Band pages:
  • The Spent Poets [on-site]
  • Madame Blavatsky Overdrive [on-site]
  • No Forcefield [on-site]

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: Buried In The Sand, I've Been Burned

• Artist: Monkey Rhythm
• Title: This Must Be The Place
• Label: 415 Records
• Catalog Number: 415-0011
• Format: 12" vinyl
• Release Date: 1985
• Country: US
• Discogs.com: Monkey Rhythm - This Must Be The Place
• 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
• Discogs.com: 415 Records: Still Disturbing The Peace
• Tracks:
  21. This Must Be The Place (3:19) - Monkey Rhythm- for full details see This Must Be The Place
• See also Bill Kopp's 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
• Discogs.com: Harsh Betty's Party Favorites
• Tracks:
  5. 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"
• Review: The Sacramento Bee: 11/23/1986, Encore page 19

• Artist: Phonosychographdisk vs. The Filthy Ape
• Title: Mooch The Moose: Smack Dealer To The Stars
• Label: Stray Records
• Catalog Number: SR0015
• Format: CD (digipack), LP
• Release Date: July 3, 2001
• Country: USA
• Discogs.com: Phonosychographdisk vs. The Filthy Ape
• 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"

• Artist: Adam Gates
• Title: The Occult
• Format: Digital Download
• 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:
  • MP3s, YouTube

• Artist: Adam Gates
• Title: Sub-Standards
• Format: Digital Download
• 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.
  • MP3s

• Artist: Probe
• Title: Arcane Textual Strategies
• Format: Digital Download
• 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
  • MP3s, YouTube

• 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
  12. Yog Sagoff (Live) (19:48) - Electric Apricot
• Electric Apricot members are: Les Claypool, Adam Gates, Bryan Kehoe, Jonathan Korty. Adam is credited as Steve 'Aiwass' Hampton Trouzdale.
• 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 day at the Sweetwater Saloon.

• Artist: The Sanchez Brothers
• Title: Tracks hosted on sanchezbrothers.com
• Format: MP3
• Release Date: 2002
• Tracks:
  1. Sanchez Lament (4:27) (direct mp3 link) (mirrored mp3)
  2. Fuggetaboutit (5:18) (direct mp3 link) (mirrored mp3)
• Per Zoltron: "Ron is Arj Barker, Gary is Adam Gates, Bruce is zoltron, Doug is Ler LaLonde, Pappa Sanchez is DJ Disk."
• The MySpace page says the tracks are from a non-existent 2001 album entitled "Straight Outta Modesto".

Selected Links and Info

• 1996 - Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel press kit - Band Photo
• Additional bands: Aphid (predecessor to MBO), Blind Illusion (touring bassist), Intensified Chaos (studio bassist), Tornado of Urine
• The Black Pope Of Lafayette County
  • https://www.theblackpope.net/, partial mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.theblackpope.net/. Site was live 2021 to 2024.
  • https://www.theblackpope.net/home-office, partial mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.theblackpope.net/home-office
• The Filthy Ape:
  • The Filthy Ape: http://www.filthyape.com/ partial mirror: 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/ mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.strayrecords.com/ mentions a number of Gates/Filthy Ape projects that appear to either not exist or were never released 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/ mirror: 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
  • Additional Monkey Rhythm members: Graham Clarke [guitar, keyboards], Charles (Chuck) Risby [drums], Brian MacLeod, Jeff Trott.
  • Known song titles: The Animal, Buried In The Sand, Happiness Died At The Willow Tree, Heaven's Gate, I've Been Burned, This Must Be The Place
• Adam's wikipedia page (lots of un-sourced, un-verified data added by an unknown contributor, possibly Adam Gates, 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 and related
  • 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
  • Primus' "The Revenant Juke" 7" vinyl box set: Artwork for 6 sleeves and the box
  • Primus' "Conspiranoid" EP: Adam is credited as one of the Conspiranoids - presumably the background singers on "Conspiranoia"
  • Les Claypool's "5 Gallons Of Diesel" DVD: Interface & Packaging by Zoltron Vs IfThenWhy, Illustrations by Adam Gates
  • Les Claypool's "Adverse Yaw: The Prawn Song Years" vinyl box set: box artwork
  • The Claypool Lennon Delirium's "South of Reality": Adam is credited as one of the Ask Your Doctor voices for "Cricket Chronicles Revisted"
  • Appears in multiple videos: Jerry Was A Race Car Driver, My Name Is Mud, Mr. Krinkle, etc.
  • Mirror of Bob's Weekly Rants - nearly 50 postings from 06/01/1998 to 07/26/1999 on primussucks.com
    • Direct links: 06/01/1998, 06/08/1998, 06/15/1998, 06/22/1998, 06/29/1998, 07/06/1998, 07/13/1998, 07/20/1998, 07/27/1998, 08/03/1998, 08/10/1998, 08/17/1998, 08/24/1998, 08/31/1998, 09/07/1998, 09/14/1998, 09/21/1998, 09/29/1998, 10/05/1998, 10/12/1998, 10/19/1998, 10/27/1998, 11/02/1998, 11/09/1998, 11/16/1998, 11/23/1998, 11/30/1998, 12/07/1998, 12/14/1998, 12/21/1998, 12/28/1998, 01/04/1999, 01/11/1999, 01/18/1999, 01/25/1999, 02/01/1999, 02/08/1999, 02/15/1999, 02/22/1999, 03/02/1999, 03/07/1999, 03/14/1999, 03/21/1999, 03/28/1999, 04/12/1999, 04/19/1999, 04/26/1999, 05/03/1999, 07/26/1999
  • YouTube (archived by Primus Tracks): Bob Cock in Cocaine Capers, Bob Cock in Live And Let Live, Primus 1996 Internet broadcast - Bob Cock intro, Primus 1996 Internet broadcast - Bob Cock outro
• The Sanchez Brothers
  • The Sanchez Brothers website (requires Flash): http://www.sanchezbrothers.com/ or let archive.org deal with the Flash for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20230321064704/http://sanchezbrothers.com/
  • 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. Greg Prato's book says "After Les exited Blind Illusion in 1988, Gates filled in as bassist.", and Adam says "We had both toured with Blind Illusion - Les did the first half of the tour and I did the other half, playing bass." There is YouTube footage of a Blind Illusion show in New York City on September 24, 1988 that features Les, so presumably Adam replaced him after that. The liner notes to Blind Illusion's "The Demos: Ultimate Anthology Vol 2" say "Les was very professional having designated his close friend Adam Gates as his understudy. Adam played bass at some of the best gigs with Blind Illusion on the East Coast and Canada." This undated footage appears to show Adam.
• Misc. Audio/Visual/Graphic Design/Software Work:
  • Air King Sound's album "Moonshot": cover art
  • 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, Tumblr site: http://deathtoprimus.tumblr.com/, archived Tumblr site - worth checking out all the text there: https://web.archive.org/web/20160724003948/http://deathtoprimus.tumblr.com/
  • "Do It For Zoltron"
  • Adam's IMDB page
• M.I.R.V.'s album "Dancing Naked in a Minefield" features Adam's narrating on the track "Intermission with Bob C. Cock", Adam is listed in the "Additional Musicians" credits, and Bob C. Cock is listed in the "Thanks To" section of the liner notes.
• Buckethead's album "Monsters and Robots: Adam is credited as Bob Cock as part of the Chicken Scratch Choir performing background vocals
• Various sources online credit Adam as being involved in the track "Smudgeon" by Iso Ambient Orchestra (featured on "The Throne Of Drones" compilation) but the liner notes do not provide sufficient detail.
• 1995 June - Addicted To Noise, Issue 1.06 - http://www.addict.com/issues/1.06/Features/Primus_Les_Claypool/page7.html - mirrored here Les Claypool reflects on the past - interview with Les Claypool describing how "Over The Electric Grapevine" is based on a real experience with Adam Gates
• 2003 - Livid Instruments - Interview with The Filthy Ape - interview with Adam regarding live visuals for Primus
• May 31, 2005 - porkcarbohidrates blog - Les Claypool Interview; Part 3 The Grape Vine - Les Claypool interview describing how "Over the Electric Grapevine" is based on a real experience with Adam Gates
• June 1, 2018 - Behind the scenes of the Incredibles 2 cover for Parade magazine - features a photo of Gates at his day job
• See also Adam's work with Beanpole.

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