Event Listing - Music
Wed May 14

The Dodos


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Location
Date and Time
Amoeba Music
1855 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 map
cross street: Stanyan
district: Haight (Upper)

Wed May 14 (6pm)

Description
Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around San Francisco playing folky guitar w/ a combination of loops and ambient keyboards. Having already studied West African Ewe drumming, Meric got turned onto country blues fingerpicking and sought to create a band where the drumming could be a center role and help bring out the syncopated rhythms coming out of the acoustic guitar. Through a chance introduction by a roommate, Meric met Santa Cruz transplant Logan Kroeber, who had also been experimenting with drumming, but in the area of progressive metal. Eventually the band changed their name to the Dodos, through constant harrowing from first tourmates Peter and the Wolf, and got a rehearsal studio where they'd spend long hours improvising the music that would become their first record Beware of the Maniacs. The band quit their day jobs as a line cook and a printer and hit the road in October of 2006.