Toxic Water

Richard Smith plays spring percussion, traditional guitar, slide guitar, some vocals and water bottle Jessie is the lead singer, plays door spring bass, slide bass, and traditional bass Both Richard and Jessie are responsible for putting together the videos that are projected during the live set

Inspirations: The Residents, Einsturzende Neubauten, Siouxsie and the Banshees, general toxicity... Clubs we play at: Badlands, The Lost Well, Hotel Vegas, Hole In The Wall, Trailer Space (now defunct) , The Museum of Human Achievement, most bars hate us so they won't book us. Favorite songs: (that we do?)

Is this the most awesome Jessica Sopolis of the wonderful band Toxic Water stepping in to contribute to the 2016 "American Portraits" series? ... well it sure is! The new new faces will be out in January but you can still check out the current peps at www.davidmcghee.net. AND, you must catch some Toxic Water here ... http://www.toxicwater.xyz Stunning and mesmorizing tunes to fill your day.

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https://www.facebook.com/toxicwater All the songs are pretty special to us. One particular song that has an interesting story behind it is the smash hit, Galactic Biology which was written about a dear friend of ours named, Tommy Mansfield. Tommy was the self appointed director of Galactic Biology. He became the director after he became the proprietor of some original NASA photographs he found at an estate sale. These pictures appeared to show life in space on the moon. Tommy called this life, "space critters". After talking about this on the internet, Tommy became nervous that NASA was out to get him because he knew too much. Sure enough, NASA hit him with their microwave weaponry and left him for dead. What NASA didn't expect was for someone to discover Tommy before he had died. This song is his story...and it will live in infamy.