artist Thee Gnostics

First formed in 1992 from the ashes of local Garage and Psychedelic groups, The Chessmen & The Swinging Gurus. Garage-Prog music for Dr.Who Freaks. Locally influential, yet obscured to but a few in the know outside Hamilton, like their steeltown forefathers Simply Saucer, who's theremin they used. immeasurably unfashionable in the age of grunge and toque rock. Known and loved by area weirdies and hairies for their spectacular live shows, dual fuzz-wah lead players, their interstellar moog & theremin soundscapes, lengthly improvisations, wrong notes, nerve sharttering volumes and mindmelting lightshows. Some members lived semi-communally in an old post office building they caled "The Temple". their most ambitious release "Gorgolon" was a science fiction concpet album about the planet of gorgolon and was housed in an interesting black tube with panoramic collage artwork depicting the Gorgolonian landscape. Known for recording their 4 cassette only releases almost exclusively live on a hand held tape player, also known to play in E for hours on end. After disbanding in 1996 Tomas Monte & Gaven Dianda went on to play in a folk-jazz group called The Fourth Way. Gaven later joined The Flashing Lights, and most recently records asThe Saffron Sect.

Tomas Monte (Guitar/ Vocals/ Moog/ Mugglestick)
Gaven Dianda (Guitar/ Vocals/ Organ/ Theremin)
Dan Beer (Moog Sattellite/Vocals)
James Roberts (Bass Guitar/Vocals)
Hans Russel Ohrt (Drums 4)
Andre Lapointe (Drums 1)
Jeremy Forrest (Drums 3)
Keon Cross (Drums 2)
Matthew Reeves (Bass Guitar 2)