Chris Deschaines is a musician, singer-songwriter, and the former lead frontman of Sons of Pale Horse.
Biography[]
Chris Deschaines was born in Green River outside of Seattle, Washington. He was thirteen years old when Doctor Manhattan fled to Mars, which disappointed his father who was part of a cult that believed that Manhattan was a messianic Übermensch. His father's declining sanity as well as his mother's death from leukemia caused Deschaines to become rebellious in his youth. He eventually found solace through his discovery of alternative rock groups such as Jane's Addiction and the Nine Inch Nails in 1989 that compelled him to become a musician. The first song that Deschaines and his best friend Mike Ennis attempted to learn was "Julio Iglesias" by Butthole Surfers.
In 1991, Chris's father was running a Burgers 'N' Borscht pop-up near the campus of Microsoft. When the company collapsed, he relocated to Boeing Field with the help of Mike's father where they witnessed several space launches. Prodded by their fathers, Chris and Mike began performing for the spaceport crowds and called themselves Space Junk. They mostly performed covers of songs by Devo and David Bowie. When they started making money, Mike's father started taking half of what they were making. Chris complained to his father about this, but he told him to forget about it. Both disgusted by their fathers, the boys decided to run away seeing it as the best option moving forward.
Chris and Mike were living in Venice, California, and found work delivering newspapers and working clerk jobs at Hi De Ho Comics. At night, they performed music gigs for no money. Their set included a suite of hardcore fragments inspired by the cut-up techniques of William S. Burroughs and Max Shea. Dao X and Gene Casablancas were both present when Chris and Mike performed at the Jabberjaw in Los Angeles. After getting booed off stage, they followed them backstage to express their love for their music.
They bonded that night over take-out from Gunga Diner and Stephen Spielberg's Pale Horse. While watching Pale Horse one night, they booed at the scene where the film attempts to explain why the alien monster appeared in New York City. Under the influence, they exclaimed that the film was insult to the memory of Pale Horse, the death metal band the film was named after, and decided to band together to form the Sons of Pale Horse. Moments after their declaration, squids began raining down from the sky; they saw this as an omen.[1]
Trivia[]
- Chris Deschaines is the cousin of Robert Deschaines, the clairvoyant whose brain was stolen by Adrian Veidt to create his alien monster.
References[]
- ↑ The Book of Rorschach