Music

 

Dinosaur Monster was active from 2008-2012.  This page shows some of the highlights from that time.  Every aspect was DIY including the indie label we worked with Communist Day Care Center.

If your not on Spotify you can stream the albums this way.

This compilation album was honoring legendary mockumentary rock Gods Spinal Tap, and released at a show on 11-11-11.  It was an honor to be a part of that worldwide celebration.  The funny thing is that we always covered Spinal Tap, even before anyone got an idea for having a tribute show.

 

This was our self-titled debut recording.

Choice pictures and audio bootlegs from the audio and photo Dinosaur Monster archives.

Artwork Hybrid Moments

Dinosaur Monster 6-18-11 Hybrid Moments Ferndale MI

This guy wandered in during the Hybrid Moments show and was sort of running amok and being obnoxious. In the Bush Recording you can hear him grabbing the mic and doing the Hendrix Purple Haze ooos and aaas, I should have been annoyed and maybe the other guys were, but I thought it was funny. I think the incredibly over the top gratuitous band introductions that Josh would do for us invoked this kind of chaos that I’ve always enjoyed being around. I’m not sure who snapped this photo but it really captures the spirit of the moment. This was a really fun show.

Artwork Jeremy Otto

Dinosaur Monster at the Berkley Front 4-27-11

Flier Jason Tafilowski

Dinosaur Monster CD Release Show at the Berkley Front 5.28.11 The Berkley Front

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This is a really clippy recording not the best quality recording but muddy sounding like the Primus Brown Album, sorta cool in its own way. There were a bunch of bands on this bill. Great little art collective and a great time. It was a super short set but fun and a lot of great camaraderie.

Dinosaur Monster Axis Mundi Fest 8.5.11 Sparklewood Detroit MI

Flier Jeremy Otto

Dinosaur Monster 8.28.11 CDCC Potluck Rochester MI

This Track almost made the album but we cut it.  The vocals were off in the live mix and we tried to add some subtly in the studio but it never sounded right.

This is a collaboration with my best friend and music collaborator Ryan Hart.  He wrote the lyrics on my suggestion of building a wig from the hair that I find lying around.  I wrote the music, we never finished the song though we always segued into another song from the Wig song.

The Wig Song 1st Record Outtake

——— Forwarded message ———-
From: Ryan Hart <>
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: wig
To: Jason Tafilowski <paleolithichuntingclub@gmail.com>

Well maybe you can fit in some of these lines:

He used to wear

a pony tail

or let his hair

fall down

 it used to be

no so scarce

upon his

bony crown

the days are gone

of flowing locks

the days of

combing hair

Now he needs

to build a wig

because his

head is bare

(prechorus)

He’s building a wig a so grand

One built for royalty

Word will spread across the land

For other to come and see

(chorus)

 A wig of grand

A wig of might

A wig that marches through the night

A wig of makeshift

A wig of wonder

A wig built from the hair of others

A wig of stature

A wig of pride

A wig ridiculously dyed

He don’t know

Just what he wants

But to brush his hair aside…

A wig of ..    Grand….

 Some hair he finds

Some hair he steals

Some wound up

In his meals

Some hair his friends

cut to give him

in shady

back alley deals

And when his

mustache is

good and long

ready for a trim

He pulls scissors

out from his coat

that he always

keeps on him

now you have more material to work with…

Listed Below our Links to some Dinosaur Monster deep cuts 

The following three bootlegs are fly on the wall basement recordings that chronicle the writing of the first record.

DM AAAAA!

Dum-Stupid

We’re Going to Make Things Out of Metal

The next listing of recordings are a rare live improvised beginning of a last minute show we did at the Berkley Front as well as a 12-11-10 show at The Farm, and a few tracks from winter of 2011 sort of an addendum to the three bootlegs listed above.

12-11-10 at The Farm

6.30.11 Berkley Front

Dinosaur Monster 2011 Winter Deep Cuts

 Photos

7.30.11 Burning Ash

7.30.11 Burning Ash

7.30.11 Burning Ash

7.30.11 Burning Ash

7.30.11 Burning Ash

6.18.11 Hybrid Moments

6.18.11 Hybrid Moments

Polygon Lighting setup for the 2.11.12 LFA Hall gig with Seven Birds One Stone and the debut show of Teto in the Bounce House (now In Cloud Orbit)

Dinosaur Monster 2.11.12

A pedalboard view of the Giraffe EP guitar setup

The Giraffe EP Cd Folder Very cool design concept by Jeremy Otto

The inside of the CD Cover

This image is the Dymaxion Map that was designed by Buckminster Fuller. The Dymaxion Map is a flat version of the world that does not distort the ratio of landmass to ocean size. The map is designed in such a way that it can be folded into a globe. But if you really look closely the map is also a depiction of a Dinosaur Monster.

Artwork Jason Tafilowski, red marker face drawn by Liam Stockwell

Introducing, the Dinosaur Monster shot. Consisting of a 1/2 oz of tequila, 1/4 oz of Midori (melon liqueur), 1/4 oz of triple sec, and a splash of sour.

8.21.10 Brewaroo.  This was part of a mini festival put on in the woods in Evart MI. Evart being the former host of such spectacles as legendary looging fights featuring the likes of Angus Bronson and Silver Jack Driscoll.

8.21.10 Brewaroo.  That old Peavey bass amp should have its own blog. A true Michigan garage warrior.

 

So yeah this is where I got the idea for the name of the Dinosaur Monster song Whitesand Diablo.