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Acme Rocket Quartet

Acme Rocket Quartet was a jazz/rock Davis band that performed regularly from 1996 through the early 2000s. The band was led by Roger Kunkel, who had been the guitarist for Thin White Rope. Other band members included Steve Edberg on drums, David Thompson on bass and John Killebrew on horns. Later Rusi Gustafson replaced Steve Edberg. The band released three albums on indie label Lather Records:

1996 Acme Rocket Quartet
1998 Ultra-High-Frequency
2004 Sound Camera

In 2009 the band teamed up with KC Wilder to release an album called Scientists Are Finding.


Here is a tracklist for the album Acme Rocket Quartet:
  1. The Xmas Theme
  2. Stalling-Scott Confusion
  3. Windup Electrojazz/Twitchin' Kitchin'
  4. AI Monday
  5. Sleep Waltz
  6. El Bano de Amor
  7. Arpcicle
  8. Clown Theft Auto
  9. Benefit Night
  10. High Centurions
  11. Vengeance of the Lion

Here is a tracklist for the album Ultra-High-Frequency:
  1. Ominous prelude to late night programming
  2. Will monster zero ever die?
  3. Toccatina
  4. 24-hours at Le Mans
  5. Technoam tanzen musik
  6. Indelicacies at the watering hole
  7. Cortez the surfer
  8. Please stand by
  9. Belly synth
  10. Battle royal
  11. Dugagi beach creature
  12. The national ANTHEM

Here is a tracklist for the album Sound Camera:
  1. This Is Your Mother
  2. Inspirado
  3. Xtabentun
  4. Something Is Rotten In Denmark
  5. At The Bottom Of The Sea
  6. Tracksuit Suite: Hobbit Test Drive Do You Feel ... Winterland '74 Thank You, Goodnight
  7. The Airboat Pilot
  8. Lusitania (Long Beneath The Whelming Brine)
  9. Spoke French
  10. Nosegay
  11. Four Chambers Of The Hearth
  12. The Machine That Makes Salt At The Bottom Of The Sea
  13. Dance Of The Seven Veils/Heaven On Their Minds

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