Volumen 1 :: Shane Hickey
Volumen 2 :: Doug Smith
Volumen^2 :: Bryan Hickey
bKCAWCK :: Chris Bacon
Volumen Beta :: Bob Marshall


  
Doug Smith Volumen 2
Doug Smith

If Shane is the high school Physics Club treasurer of VOLUMEN, Doug is the affable, popular guy who toes the fine line between band dork and senior class president. Cheerleaders leak the info that they want him to ask them out, but he�s always genuinely nice to the less popular girls and boys, too. In addition to writing most of what doesn�t get written by his longtime friend and musical partner, Shane (in the platonic sense, that is�at least we THINK so), Doug�s signature wikkid lyxx and fine tenor are the yin to Shane�s yang, the butter to Shane�s muffin, the hot dog in Shane�s....well, anyway, the other half of the songwriting equation. Additionally, Doug is a beacon of calm and tranquility in his other bandmates� roiling sea of adolescent squirreliness, and a fine cook to boot. The last male bonding I did with Doug was undertaken when we spent two days in the Montana wilderness picking morel mushrooms. Oh, the magic he worked with those little morsels...


  
 
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87.9 Pirate Cat Radio 03/29/2006
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Title: Q: Are we Not Men? A: We are Volumen
Author: Alley Bones

Special guests this week Volumen. These guys were a buncha non-smoking well mannered cornfed boys from Missoula Montana. They had great stories about Chickens shitting in their mouths, side project bands involving breakfast foods, and touring in an ambulance- literally. They are on myspace at www.myspace.com/volumen (i think) and I asked them how they would descride their music to which they replied Heavy Wave.

Great guys and a fun band. They sing about Orson Welles and Sexy Astronauts and played a show at the Parkside in SF after the interview with a Bob Seager cover band called Total BS. It was a lot of fun- Ill try and get a picture up soon.

Set list:

1. The lunatics have taken over the asylum- Fun Boy 3
2. Thinking Feelers Union Local 202- Undertaker
3. Rain Docs- Tom Waits
4. Mannequin- Wire
5. Heavt Metal Drummer- Wilco
6. Mexican Radio- Wall of Voodoo
7. I want to be a cowboy- The Vandals
8. 1880 or so- Television
9. The Slider- T-Rex
10. 100%- Sonic Youth
11. Peaches- The Stranglers
12. in Towers- Rich Kids
13. Ace of Spades- Motorhead

At this point I tried to play the kultur Shock and Gogol Bordello interviews I got over the weekend through my recorder- but the quality was low so I cyt it off but I promise I will clean it up and play it next week.

14. Gigolo Amerikana- Kultur Shock
15. When the trixter starts a poking- Gogol Bordello
16. I hate you- Christian Death
17. Sonic Reducer- Dead Boys
18. We got bigger problems now- Dead Kennedys
19. The CN Tower belongs to the dead- Final Fantasy
20. Bad Habit- Dresden Dolls


Volumen interview!!!!!!

We had time for about 4 songs in between all the yammering from their new album Science Faction

1. Side of a box
2. Lush & co.
3. Orson Welle was right
5. I dont know (personal favorite)

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