Coachwhips


Coachwhips was a garage rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2001. The band consisted of John Dwyer, John Harlow and Mary Ann McNamara. In their second incarnation, Val-Tronic played keyboard/tambourine, and Matt Hartman played drums.
Coachwhips are known for their stripped-down, unpolished garage rock and completely unintelligible lyrics, a sound that is similar to The Oblivians and The Gories. Coachwhips played their last show in New York City in late 2005.
The band performed a reunion show in 2014 at the South by Southwest festival.

Band members

Splits

The band is known for their lo-fi sound, and to achieve this effect, the band uses a telephone transducer as a microphone.
In a 2005 interview with SLUG Magazine, Dwyer claims the band steals telephones for use in their music from hotel rooms every time the band stays in a hotel on tour, which he says is why the band is usually not invited back to the hotels they have visited.
John Dwyer used a Kramer DMZ 1000 and a 60's Harmony Stratotone in Coachwhips. He now almost always plays a clear EGC DS. He runs both his guitar and Microphone into a 1-12 Music Man combo amp.