| Monday July 27, 2011 |
New website. It took awhile but our new site is finally finished. We have a lot of things happening with Bagheera so we needed a nice new place to store and share information.
So to catch up, we had a great show in San Francisco at the Asian Man.jpg)
Records 15 year festival. It was really like a big family reunion of all of the bands and friends we've toured with over the years. I'm amazed that Mike actually pulled it off without a hitch.
We played our set as a two-piece and blazed through a few songs from our album "twelves" such as "long division","true silver" and "better at night", as well as some newer ones like "shooting rockets towards the sun", "failed to read the schematic", "martian influence" and "vanilla morphine".
We've been working hard to get this next album finished. We only have a few more songs to record before mixing and mastering the whole thing. I'm really excited about this batch of songs and how they all fit together as a cohesive album. Some of these songs are new and still being written (Oort Cloud),(Eris),(the Demotion of Pluto)while one was written back when I bought my first four-track recorder in 1998 (Elliptical Orbits).
| Saturday, June 11, 2011 |
We're getting ready to head to California to play the Asian Man Records 15th year anniversary festival. We will be playing at Thee Parkside in San Francisco with:
THE EMERGENCY ROOM (Dan Andriano of ALKALINE TRIO), DAN POTTHAST, RATASUCIA, BAGHEERA
Friday June 17th. The show is already sold out. So excited.
We've been busy recording (like usual) but this time we've actually finished up several songs. We will be selling a limited amount of these 4-song "Vanilla Morphine" CDs at our upcoming shows. We screen-printed, stamped, painted, and grommeted each one by hand and no two are alike.
The track listing is:
1. Vanilla Morphine
2. Shooting Rockets Towards the Sun
3. Martian Influence
4. Neptune pt 1
I'll eventually get around to posting a couple of the tracks for streaming audio on Facebook and/or Myspace. "Like" us on FACEBOOK to get updates and such.
cheers,
--theodore
| Wednesday, Dec 8, 2010 |
Update! After a several year hiatus, we are warming up our amplifiers and preparing to play some live shows again. Our live drummer Patrick encouraged us to get out of the basement and back on the stage. Our first show is:
Thu. December 30th at Off Broadway in south Saint Louis. We will be opening for Lemuria. We have a bunch of new and relatively new songs we've written over the past few years that we will be debuting. If you are in the area, I hope you can brave the cold and join us for a great evening of music.
I know it's a way off, but we will be playing at least one show in San Francisco in June. We'll post more details when we get them.
If you haven't already done so, please visit our FACEBOOK page and become a fan to receive updates.
| Sunday Mar 1st, 2009 |
Finally some new material has been posted on MySpace! Click HERE For over a year we've been working on a song to commemorate the wedding of our best friends Dan and Shannon which took place on 
the beach in Santa Cruz, California. Dan and I have known each other since we were six years old and have travelled the world together playing music in MU330. Dan and Shannon also make some amazing music together in SPITZER, the STITCH UP, and the CAT-DOG ACOUSTIC EXPLOSION. For me this was one of the most fun projects I've worked on. We wrote and recorded so many tracks that we actually split it into two separate songs each with it's own set of lyrics. The songs could be played side by side with the melodies and rhythms complimenting each other, similar to a strong relationship. These two songs are the first to feature our daughter Sylvia on vortex keys and percussion and our live bass player Obie on bass!
| Tue Mar 22nd, 2008 |
Yeah, it's earth day again. The bees are buzzing about our flowering crab-apple tree.
| Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 |
In keeping with our current tradition of taking a long, long time to finish any given project, here's a new update. As forseen and duly noted by our resident mystic Obie, who also happens to be the un-official Mayor of Affton, trying to build and train a keyboard player from scratch is not a quick or easy task. Indeed. However, Sylvia will be featured playing organ on a new song we wrote about Neptune. We're still writing a lot of songs and slowly getting some of them to tape. There are two albums worth of material, all at various stages of recording.Quite a few are almost finished and we'll have a couple posted on MySpace soon.
| Thu July 6th, 2006 |
Alright, a few more songs have been recorded. Progress is slow but steady and what I've heard so far is really nice. Heather, Theodore and Slyvia, along with their vegetable garden, are all doing well.
The full band is set to start playing live again in the next couple of months and we'll, of course, let you know all the whens and wheres. Until then, get yourself outside and walk through the trees.-----------------------------------Dwayne
| Thu April 13, 2006 |
We would like to introduce Sylvia Arun Moll to the world! She made her debut on February 17th and has kept her parents busy singing sci-fi lullabys. Believe it or not more progress has been made on the next EP and hopefully we'll have something posted when its finished in the near future.
I need to introduce myself. My name is Dwayne and I'll be taking care of the web duties for awhile while Heather and Theodore tend to Sylvia and the EP. You can direct your web site inquiries to DwayneD@bagheeramusic.com
| Sun Aug 7, 2005 |
Bagheera
be taking a hiatus from performing full-band live shows until
the spring of 2006. The reason for this is the recent news that
Heather and Theodore will be expecting their first child in
February. The last full-band show will be this Friday at the
CREEPY CRAWL in downtown Saint Louis. Bagheera will be playing
with the most excellent UNDERCLAIRE from Little Rock, Arkansas. Don't you dare miss Underclaire's
set or you'll be denied the too-cool-for-school-indie-rock-bragging-rights
of "well I saw them the first time they played St. Louis,
hmmph" In the meanwhile the band will be cloistered in
the basement, arranging and recording material for the next
record which promises more epic arrangements and more forest
fire, rattlesnake and space travel references than the last
one. --dwayne d.
| Wed June 8, 2005 |
We've
been back for a couple of days now and the jet lag is sure easier
to beat when you travel west. We had a fantastic time in the
UK playing shows, hearing new bands, and making new friends.
We played the Wasted Festival in Morcambe which was a solid
three days of punk rock music. We got caught in traffic on the
way to the festival and wound up missing our set time by an
hour and a half. Thanks to some creative juggling from the stage
manager, we squeezed in a short set after Dick from the Subhumans
did his spoken word/ comedy thing. The whole thing was pretty 
surreal.
With just our acoustic guitars, we belted out some rock tunes
about space, death, drugs and dwarves, on a big stage, in a
sun-lit room, to a bunch of punk rockers sitting at tables.
I'm sure there is a parallel universe out there where this kind
of setting is the norm for punk shows. What an amazing place
that must be.
We played a couple shows in Brighton at the legendary Free Butt.
Laugh as you may at the name, but the Free Butt is a solid venue
and pub. Hundreds of touring bands from around the world have
played there at one time or another and we consider it an honor
to be one of them. Our friend Buz set up the show and we would
up staying with him and his girlfriend Em for quite a few nights.
A big big thanks goes out to them for the show as well as their
hospitality.
We spent a couple of days in the town of Battle (where the battle
of Hastings took place in 1066) with our friends Nat and Bill
and their parents Gully and Ben. Nat and Bill are "the
Flying Marrows" an acoustic rock duo as well as a gardening
team.. Their family is really amazing. After a day of hiking
through woods and the battle-field we ate a big meal and played
a lot of music. From there we spent four days in London, looking
at Egyptian statues and the tombs of famous Britains. Our next
show was a music and beer festival at a regional airport in
Shoreham-by-Sea. --t.m.
| Sun May 8, 2005 |
This
past thursday and friday we had a couple of really great shows
here in the St. Louis area. Thanks to everyone who came out.
Ted and Heather are gearing up for the big England trip. We've
been using our skills of procrastination in packing and preparing
for this trip, so let's hope we remember to bring everything.
| Fri Apr 1, 2005 |
Hail to all the fools that celebrate the new year today (the historical origin of April Fools).
Bagheera will be playing in the UK as an acoustic two piece in late May. No Foolin'! We will be playing the acoustic stage at the Wasted Festival in Morcambe on May 21st and follow it with a week long tour of the UK with POG.
We
will start recording the initial stages of our new album this
summer.
| Mon Jan 17, 2005 |
| Tue Jan 4, 2005 |
The
new year is here and, without getting too heavy or profound,
we hope that better times are ahead for the whole planet.
We will be playing this Thursday in town at the Creepy Crawl
with Hated Nixon. This is a very last minute affair so if you
find yourself free from obligation and in serious need of a
rock show please come down. This Saturday we're at Off Broadway
with Red Eyed Driver and the Helium Tapes.
We've
got T-shirts now available and you can get them at the shows
or here on the site.
| Fri Dec 24, 2004 |
| Mon Nov 30, 2004 |
Past
Shows
In the past couple of weeks we've played
a string of really good shows. In Edwardsville, at the legendary
Stagger Inn, we rocked as a three piece with one of our favorite
local bands, Bibowats. We played an odd yet really good show
with the full band in Alton at Camp Climax. The venue is the
basement and practice space for Camp Climax for Girls. We weren't
sure what to think when we got there but it turned out to be
a really fun show. Chris Krueger, aka Southerly, played an awesome
acoustic set. We wound up playing two sets at Frederick's, the
first with the full band and the second with just Heather and
myself on guitars. We debuted a bunch of new songs. Frederck's
seems to be a good place for that.
We will be performing in St. Louis at Mangia Italiano on South
Grand on Thursday December 30th. We will again be playing a
set with the full band and another with just guitars.
We also finally updated the page with new photos and flyers.
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| Sat Oct 30, 2004 |
Happy Halloween
We have some new pictures up on the photos page from our not so recent show at the rocket bar.
| Thu Oct 7, 2004 |
The Exponetial Growth
Keen observers at our shows recently have noted the usual two-piece has squared into four. Hopefully this is the last of the progression since sixteen is far too much to manage. So far we've played three shows with this line-up and it's cool to finally hear the songs the way they sound on the album. We will still play some shows as a two-piece and probably some as a three-piece.
We
have some upcoming shows in October including an opening slot
for the Brian Jonestown Massacre show at the Creepy Crawl on
Oct 22.
| Fri Sept 17, 2004 |
Bagheera in the RFT
In this
week's Riverfront Times (St. Louis alternative weekly paper)
there is a Bagheera interview. Lovely.
We've recently been practicing with our friends Patrick Turek (drums) and John "Obie" O'Brien (bass) to fill out our live sound. They have each played in some of our favorite bands over the years including Stillwater, the Bottlerockets, and Jenny Kavanaugh and her band of Outlaws, so it's truely an honor to finally get to play music with them. We play our first show with this lineup tonight at Sally T's in St. Peters, MO.
| Wed July 8, 2004 |
| Fri May 28, 2004 |
Tornado
Warning!
For the past week St. Louis has been pounded by daily parades
of storms. Last night was no exception; The sky darkened with
a hue similar to the background on this page before going almost
black and the tornado sirens started to moan in the distance.
There was nothing we could do but go to the basement and play
music until the all clear was given. Speaking of last minute
warnings, we found out we were playing the Creepy Crawl last
Wednesday mere hours before the show. We had a really good set
but it felt a little weird since we had never heard of any of
the other bands. I guess that's what happens when you spend
your life in a basement, playing music and hiding from tornados.
Last
Saturday we played a really rocking show in Peoria, IL with
the Youth Class,. Brief Candles (Milwaukee), and Francis England
( Peoria ). Peoria has a really good scene and we were impressed
and genuinely surprised by all of the bands. I think we are
playing Peoria again in mid July with the Youth Class..
