The Jupiter Sheep
The Jupiter Sheep on a stepped stage in orange suits, the crowd behind them dressed in black

The Jupiter Sheep

“Like, wow, man! Jupiter Sheep play happy-foot head music for modern space pioneers, and this sky pilot is ready to take the trip.” Alternative Press, July 1992

Sacramento · 1988–1994

“diving down through the pools of methane‑ammonia to communicate love to the sky beings floating over pens full of jupiter sheep”

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from “Jupiter Sheep” · words by Byron Callisto

The Black Tape cover

The Black Tape

1990 · Recorded at Enharmonik Studios
  1. Jupiter Sheep
  2. Black Car
  3. Bound To You
  4. Captain Wilson
  5. Dread
  6. Hassan D'Rush
Leda’s Earthcannon cover

Leda’s Earthcannon

c. 1991 · Recorded live at Tom’s house in Pollock Pines
  1. Beat Park
  2. Time Of Our Lives
  3. Girl Next Door
  4. World War B
  5. Radio Sol
  6. Sunday It Rained
  7. The Dog
  8. The Gathering
  9. Space Hippie
Choose Your World cover

Choose Your World

1993 · Recorded at Moon Studios · Resounding Records
  1. Speed Generation
  2. Roll
  3. Dreamer
  4. Time Of Our Lives
  5. Shadow Above
  6. Satellite
  7. Father Whalen
  8. The Dog
  9. World War B
  10. Chronos
  11. Beat Park
  12. Radio Sol
  13. The Gathering
  14. Space Hippie

Notes to the sky beings · chapter one

I first met the Banner Brothers in 1982. Thomas J. Barnes and Maxwellian Gehefnik Beeswald Wyvern were their names, so not all the Banner Brothers, just two. Tom advertised on the Changing Hands Bookstore board for a rideshare to the Kerouac Conference in Boulder, Jay and I needed a ride, and that's how it started for me.

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