Rick Bain

Guitarist/vocalist Rick Bain played in a number of bands in senior high school and university in the Portland, OR, region, including Spin Jupiter Spin (circa 1997), a music group that also featured Brent DeBoer from the Dandy Warhols. After DeBoer still left to become listed on the Dandy Warhols, Bain continuing to write music, and gained an area rep after documenting his own edition of the Seaside Boys’ Pet Noises on the four-track recorder, performing and playing your guitar, bass, keyboards, and minimal percussion himself. He also wedded Amy, one of is own fellow Spin Jupiter Spin bandmates. In the past due a few months of 1998, Bain produced a fresh group to execute his tracks, Rick Bain & the Genius Placement, which initially presented two key pad players (Joe Kaczmarek and Eric Pfau) and drums and acoustic guitar (performed by Michael Ford and Bain), but no bassist (Pfau performed the bass secrets within the keyboards). The group’s regular membership continued to change over another few years, as well as the instrumentation was modified with each modification. Pfau eventually remaining their lineup; drummer Clayton Jones became a member of after Ford remaining. In August 2000, Bain rush-released his band’s first recording to become able to sign up for the Dandy Warhols on tour. Crooked Fall months Sun, on the neighborhood Official Information label, garnered some essential fascination with the music group, and their group of fans grew after touring with previous Portland occupants the Brian Jonestown Massacre in 2001. Bain ultimately fallen the “Genius Placement” portion of his band’s name.