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Courier, The Anonymous Troll, and Winston King! The albums gained considerable international attention and MBO briefly played as a live act (with guitarist MIRV, Bassist- McFarland, Drummer-Gomes and Keyboardist-Tom Muer). In 2015 all online indicators of MBO were removed from the internet (including the entire MBO catalog and a considerably sized Blog that Gates had kept for over 5 years). The MBO catalog has since resurfaced on SoundCloud.
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Francisco club circuit, playing numerous shows at The Mabuhay Gardens, On Broadway, The Stone, Berkeley Square and many others. The band constantly toured (nationally with The Fine Young Cannibals among others) until securing a record deal with Howie Klien's 415/CBS Music. Their debut album “This Must Be The Place” (produced by Matt Wallace) was released in 1985.
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Winegars Fremont CA home for months, recording on a primitive Tascam 388. The musical pair slowly developed their melodic pop style while amassing a large collection of original songs. With the help of Matt Wallace, the duo (With Keyboardist John Berg) secured a publishing deal with publishing giant Peer Music.
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Interscope Records, Mountain Bike Magazine, and CBS Records among others. Gates left the Graphic House in 1998 and introduced emerging Artist Zoltron to his role as creative director at the company. Gates then became the Creative Director for Internet startup Liquid Audio. Gates is currently a Creative Director at Pixar Animation Studios.
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In 2014 Adam, released a solo album called The Occult which was posted on the MBO and can now be found on YouTube. In an online interview, Gates mentioned his latest project "The Black Pope Of
Lafayette County” - which is a song cycle consisting of 23 songs about death”. As of this writing “The Black
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Keyboards, Guitar and sang for the SF Bay Area band MIRV. The band (with line up Marc “MIRV” Haggard, Craig McFarland and Jeff Gomes) played local San Francisco shows to MIRV's considerable home following and toured nationally with Les Claypool. The band would record one album with Gates
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While ascending rapidly in popularity, Primus would often play “acoustic” shows with Gates fronting a character named “Bob C Cock” (a name and persona initially created by Monkey Rhythm manager Jim Jones). Bob Cock would feature throughout the career of Primus, most notably at their annual New Year's
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With his interest in electronic music growing, Gates released multiple albums under the name No Force Field with friends Brian “Brain” Mantea and Larry “Ler” LaLonde. Gates also worked with
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Winegar created a live band (with drummer Mike Urbano and bassist, and old friend, Derek Greenberg on bass). The band soon generated interest from various labels until signing with Geffen Records. The band soon after changed their
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With interests in diversifying their creative output, Primus members Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde and Gates started a freelance graphic design company “Prawn Song Design”. The small graphics house focused on the exploding opportunities of Web-based design in the mid-1990s, creating numerous sites
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With bassist/engineer Craig McFarland Gates started the studio project Madame Blavatsky Overdrive, which was a return to performing “progressive pop” music. As the chief songwriter, Gates and Bassist/Engineer McFarland (along with drummer Jeff Gomes) recorded a full-length album “Idiot Jones Will
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Gates played with many bands in his formative years, establishing relationships that would inform his entire musical career. Some of his early projects were Town Number Eight (with songwriter Derek Greenberg) and various hardcore punk rock bands that were all heavily influenced by the LA Hardcore
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Gates originally met Les Claypool at the radio station "The Quake" while both musicians tried to secure air play from DJ Big Rick Stewart. Gates' band Monkey Rhythm and Claypool's Primus would play countless shows together in the SF Bay Area. Gates also shared bass duties with Claypool for the
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In 1981 Gates sang and played bass for Monkey Rhythm, a band started (with British guitarist Graham Clarke and drummer Chuck Risby) while attending Miramonte High School in Orinda California. With the band's musical references clearly at odds with local suburban musical tastes, Monkey Rhythm
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various video clips. Gates toured extensively with Primus for both the legs of their Tour De Fromage and is still known by industry icon /Road Manager Quake as “the only guy on my crews to ever wear a suit to work”. The projections can be seen on the live Primus DVD “Hallucino-Genetics”.
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