Physics

Featuring a rotating cast of musicians from the San Diego experimental underground but mainly composed of Denver Lucas on drums, Jeff Coad on synthesizers, John Goff, Will Goff, Jason Soares, Rob Crow, Travis Nelson, Ryan Jencks on guitar and Matt Lorenz on visuals/projections. This early incarnation came to be known as the “Black Period”. Mainly inspired by theories in quantum theory and Eastern Mysticism, Physics was musically influenced by Krautrock, minimalism, early Doom/Drone, and Electronic Kosmische, though were often associated with the Math Rock genre. After the untimely death of Denver Lucas in the mid-1990s, the Physics personnel underwent numerous changes until resulting in Cameron Jones on drums which was later known as the “Gray Period” then ultimately the “White Period”.^[1]

After Physics dissolved in 2000, Jason Soares and Jeff Coad went on to form the more electronic-based Aspects Of Physics also with Matt Lorenz. Will and John Goff went on to form the electronic band SSI. Rob Crow started Pinback (co-led by Zach Smith from Three Mile Pilot).^[2]

In 2015, coinciding with the release of the documentary It’s Gonna Blow!!! San Diego’s Music Underground 1986–1996, Physics reformed for reunion shows in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles

Date	Location	With
11/30/99	The Smell Los Angeles, CA	The Champs, Get Hussle, Fantomos
11/27/99	Casbah San Diego, CA	Isotope 217, Jet Black Crayon
11/22/99	Boomerang Oakland, CA	Tarantula Hawk
11/21/99	40th St. Wherehouse Oakland, CA	Tarantula Hawk
11/20/99	VFW Hall Reno, CA	4 punks bands
11/18/99	Monkey Mania Denver, CO	N/A
11/16/99	Bottleneck Lawrence, KS	Bardo Pond
11/13/99	Fireside Bowl Chicago, IL	Mount Shasta
11/10/99	Hotel 2 Tango Montreal, Quebec	N/A
11/9/99	WFMU Jersey City, NJ	N/A
11/9/99	Sound and Fury Record New York, NY	N/A
11/6/99	Lost Film Festival Philiadelphia, PA	N/A
11/5/99	Random House Washington, D.C.	N/A
11/3/99	Club Chopstix Richmond, VA	Chris Farmer
11/2/99	The Wherehouse Salem Winston, NC	N/A
11/1/99	Cat’s Cradle Chapel Hill, NC	Don Caballero, The Champs
10/31/99	Random house Atlanta, GA	N/A
10/30/99	Random Wherehouse Atlanta, GA	N/A
10/27/99	Modified Pheonix AZ	N/A
9/25/99	Casbah	Godspeed you Black Emperor, La Bradford
7/30/99	Che’ Cafe	Che’ Fest
7/17/99	Casbah	The Champs
7/3/99	Brick by Brick	The Boredoms
6/30/99	Aztec Bowl	Trantula Hawk
6/26/99	Modified – Pheonix Arizona	1/2 Visconte, Autumn Similance
5/27/99	Casbah	Trumans Water, Soul Junk, Jejune and Los Paramoias/Free Stars SD
3/31/99	Che’ Cafe	most secret method, paper lantern bill and brother del fuego
3/25/99	Cane’s	Neurosis
3/19/99	The Casbah	Three Mile Pilot, Camera Obscura and Electric Nazarene
2/13/99	Che’ Cafe	Triztesa, The For Carnation
12/19/98	The Way Out Sound Record Store	Locust, Super Sonic Samba School, DJ Sleepwalker
12/5/98	Che’ Cafe	Track Star, Welcome, Lowercase, Scarnella
9/13/98	Casbah	Subarachnoid spider, soul junk
8/22/98	Che’ Cafe	Saint Andre, Western Expanse
5/16/98	The Velvet Elvis	Junior High, Juno, Most secret method
5/15/98	Bellingham – Washington	Juno, Most secret method
5/12/98	Stage 4 – Portland	Trumans Water, Ume Bitsu
5/10/98	UC Santa Cruz	Cars get crushed
5/8/98	40th st. wherehouse in Oakland	Pee and others
5/7/98	The Fold at the Chorus Club	Beginning of West Coast Tour – The Black Heart Procession
4/18/98	The Fold at the Chorus Club	Strictly Ballroom
4/16/98	La Paloma Theater	Black Heart Procession CD Release Party, Boilermaker
3/27/98	Che’ Cafe
2/28/98	Punks with Presses	A Minor Forrest, Storm and Stress
2/27/98	Bottom of the Hill	A Minor Forrest, Storm and Stress
2/26/98	Sonoma University	droplet
2/21/98	Espresso Roma	The Black Heart Procession
2/7/98	Cafe’ Artista	Disc
2/1/98	Casbah	Tripod Mac and the Wife, Go Go Go Airheart, Bombthreat
1/30/98	Che Cafe’	Antenna, Tritessa, The Black Heart Procession
1/24/98	Off the Record in Hillcrest
12/28/97	KCR – SDSU – recording for KCR compilation
12/3/97	Silver Lake Lounge	The Ruins, Puss
11/29/97	Che’ Cafe CD Release Party	Boilermaker, Last of the Juanitas, Multiple Stab Wounds
11/15/97	Espresso Roma	sluts from oxford
9/18/97	Grounds Zero Coffee Shop	5/5/2000, ultra-7, herofix, üüm
1/27/96	Che’ Cafe	Played as Astro Physics w/ Lesser , Bandwidth peephole & Disassemble
1/18/96	Casbah	Soul Junk
12/16/95	Casbah	Shonen Knife & Blood Loss
11/4/95	Cultural Center De La Raza	Inch , Boilermaker
10/31/95	Che’ Cafe	Clikatat Ikatowi , Man is the Bastard , Foreskin 500
10/25/95	Casbah	Azalia Snail
9/17/95	Jabberjaw , LA	Killdozer
9/16/95	Gilman St. , Berkeley	Peechees , Cars Get Crushed , Ohio Blue Tip , Mocket
9/15/95	House of low self esteem , SF	Tribes of Neurot , Deer Hoof
9/14/95	Radio Free Berkeley
9/13/95	Cafe this	Cars Get Crushed , Wack Ass Bitch , Mocket
9/12/95	Club 50 Bucks	Merzbow , Soulmania , Solid Eye
6/2/95	14th & Cst	Three Mile Pilot , Cars Get Crushed , Red Stars Theory , Patterns Make Sunrise
4/ ?/95	Ken Theater
2/7/95	Casbah
2/3/95	Che’ Cafe	Clikatat Ikatowi
1/ ?/95	Ruse’ theater
1/2/95	Yam Day Festival
10/ ?/94	IMS closing party
10/ ?/94	Gasoline	Soul Junk
?/ ?/94	Concourse parking garage
8/25/94	Casbah
?/ ?/94	Dookies Livingroom	Dashing Shipwreck
4/16/94	Che’ Cafe	Played as Quantum Physics
8/20/94	Narnia
?/ ?/94	Granny’s	violador
?/ ?/94	Party in Mira Mesa
8/19/94	Bodies
7/22/94	Mesopotamia Cafe
1/27/94	Hong Kong Cafe	Slug
12/ ?/ 93	Chabalaba