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The Sun City Girls are Seattle's biggest cult band, with 70-odd albums that run the gamut from fascinating to infuriating. They're also changing the face of aural ethnography with their Sublime Frequencies record label. So why haven't you heard of them?

A A A Comments By Mike McGonigal Wednesday, Apr 14 2004
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Like the band's current tour and upcoming local performances, Sublime Frequencies is the culmination of 22 years' worth of collective improvisation, both as musicians and as a working operation. But while it's still impossible to know exactly what the Sun City Girls are going to do next, they do have one thing mapped out for the far future—sort of. "[We've been] talking about doing wheelchair concerts when we're in our 70s," exclaims Gocher. "I want an electric one!"

What, pray tell, will that be like? Alan Bishop is unfazed by the question. "What we'll do in wheelchairs," he declares, "will far transcend what anyone's done in them before."

The Sun City Girls, from left: Rick Bishop, Charlie Gocher Jr., and Alan Bishop.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN
The Sun City Girls, from left: Rick Bishop, Charlie Gocher Jr., and Alan Bishop.
The Sun City Girls, from left: Rick Bishop, Charlie Gocher Jr., and Alan Bishop.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN
The Sun City Girls, from left: Rick Bishop, Charlie Gocher Jr., and Alan Bishop.

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