Deth Specula
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Deth Specula is a Santa Cruz "neo-bronto" five-piece rock band. Deth Specula was one of the first ten bands on The Internet Underground Music Archive and used the Internet to broadcast a live music concert from the Cowell Courtyard at the SCO Forum held on the University of California in Santa Cruz on August 23, 1994. This was the first time a live music concert was broadcast over the Internet and the second netcast ever. The first song ever broadcast in a live concert over the Internet was "Internet Band", a Deth Specula parody of the Grand Funk Railroad song "We're An American Band".
Genre
Deth Specula was a 1990s band with roots in early 1970s hard rock and style drawing on 1980s punk pop. They began as a punk parody band and later developed into "neo-bronto" rock.{{cite web
|url=http://www.deth.com/bio/index.html
|title=Deth Specula Band Bio
|access-date= March 30, 2008
|author=Malcom McCameron
|date= August 23, 1994
|publisher=Deth Specula
}}
Band members
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- Tim Ruckle / Timmy Rotarian - Lead vocals
- Kameran Kashani / Malcom McCameron - Lead guitar
- Marty Stevens / Kozmo - Rhythm guitar and vocals
- Jon Luini / yam - Bass and vocals
- Robert Boucher / rAsTRo! - Drums and percussion
- Eric Davis / Sharky - Engineer
}}
The bassist, Jon Luini is one of the three founders of the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA), a pioneering online music website formed in 1993.{{cite news
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| author = David Pescovitz
| title = It's All Geek to Them; Digital Communes Find a Social Scene in Computers
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| work = Business section, The Cutting Edge: COMPUTING / TECHNOLOGY / INNOVATION
| publisher = Los Angeles Times
| page = 1
| date = August 30, 1995
| access-date = April 21, 2008
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| quote = ...27-year-old Jon Luini, who co-founded the hip Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) in 1993
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| archive-date = July 25, 2012
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| url-status = dead
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History
Deth Specula formed in 1989 to create a rock video parody of the Sex Pistols song Anarchy in the U.K. called "Anarchy at SCO" for use in the SCO Follies, a company sponsored musical comedy revue produced each year by the employees.{{cite web
| last = Marino
| first = Steve
| title = SCO Follies videos on YouTube
| website = YouTube
| url = https://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=motibloc
| access-date = April 21, 2008 }} Deth Specula continued to make video parodies for the SCO Follies in subsequent years and branched out into playing at local night clubs.{{cite web
| title = Deth Specula Fanline - March 10, 1994
| url = http://deth.com/fanline/94-03-10.html
| access-date = April 22, 2008 }}{{cite web
| title = Deth Specula Fanline - April 27, 1994
| url = http://deth.com/fanline/94-04-27.html
| access-date = April 22, 2008 }} On March 9, 1994 CNN used the Deth Specula original "Careening Continental" as the lead in and out for their "Showbiz News" segment on IUMA.{{cite web
| last = Boucher
| first = Robert
| title = IUMA on CNN (3/9/1994)
| website = YouTube
| date = April 29, 2008
| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT5LIEUJefM
| access-date = April 29, 2008 }} On August 23, 1994, the band broadcast a live concert over the Mbone.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/22/arts/rolling-stones-live-on-internet-both-a-big-deal-and-a-little-deal.html&scp=1&sq=deth+specula&st=nyt Strauss, Neil, "Rolling Stones Live on Internet: Both a Big Deal and a Little Deal", New York Times, Nov 22, 1994, p. C15.][http://www.newsweek.com/id/112498?tid=relatedcl Hafner, Katie, "The MBone: Can't You Hear It Knocking", Newsweek, Dec 5, 1994.]
{{cite web
|url=http://www.deth.com/forum-gig.html
|title=S.F. BAY AREA BAND DETH SPECULA ROCKS THE INTERNET WITH LIVE, COMPUTER NETWORK BROADCAST
|access-date= March 30, 2008
|author=Malcom McCameron
|date= August 23, 1994
|publisher=Deth Specula
{{cite web
|url=http://www.iuma.com/deth-mbone/
|title=Deth Specula Live at the SCO Forum
|access-date= April 19, 2008
|author=Internet Underground Music Archive
|author-link=Internet Underground Music Archive
|date= August 23, 1994
|publisher=Internet Underground Music Archive
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19990202093957/http://www.iuma.com/deth-mbone/
|archive-date= February 2, 1999
{{cite web
|url=http://www.mediacast.com/Company/
|title=MediaCast Company Information
|access-date= March 30, 2008
|author=Jon R. Luini
|date= August 23, 1994
|publisher=MediaCast
{{cite web
|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/music-livestreaming-coronavirus/
|title=How Livestreaming Is Bridging the Gap Between Bands and Fans During the Coronavirus Outbreak
|access-date= July 24, 2020
|author=Cherie Hu
|date= March 17, 2020
|publisher=Pitchfork
}} In 1995 they played in the UniForum Battle of the Bands in Dallas, Texas.{{cite web
| title = Deth Specula Fanline - March 8, 1995
| url = http://www.deth.com/fanline/95-03-08.html
| access-date = April 22, 2008 }}
Over time Deth Specula became more of an original rock and ballad band than a parody group although they retained their sense of humor as evidenced by originals like "Baboon Liver", "Crop Killer", "Reagan Mask", "Gutterslut", and "Get Even More".Weasels and Cream, Deth Specula audio cassette tape{{cite web
| title = Deth Specula Fanline - January 25, 1994
| url = http://deth.com/fanline/94-01-25.html
| access-date = April 22, 2008 }}
Current status
Deth Specula performed at the Cocoanut Grove in Santa Cruz, California on February 2, 2008, for the Bruce Steinberg memorial. It's A Beautiful Day opened for them.{{cite web|url=http://www.armory.com/pipermail/brucemem/2008-January/000051.html|title=Bruce Steinberg Memorial status reports|last=Hunt|first=Evan|date=January 24, 2008|access-date=April 23, 2008}}
Deth Specula is currently not performing.
Discography
- Weasels and Cream - an 8-song cassette
- A 3-song demo tape
- The Deth Specula Compilation Video{{cite web
|url=https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=09A625E4B6CE168D
|title=Deth Specula Compilation Video
|access-date= August 29, 2009
|author=Deth Specula
|date= August 23, 1994
|publisher=Deth Specula
}} - music videos including "Anarchy at SCO", a parody of the Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the U.K."
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.deth.com Deth Specula Band Website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070807082133/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199403/msg00063.html Interesting-People Message about Deth Specula]
- [http://www.deth.com/images/promo.mpg Promotional compilation video]
Category:Rock music groups from California
Category:American comedy rock musical groups