Starry Skemes is Dave Mairs (drums), Bill Fischer(bass) and J.Lee (guitar, voc). Their music is influenced by baroque 60’s psychedelic garage rock and built on an 80’s/90’s indie rock foundation. Their musical pallet is wide ranging from sonic intensity to melancholic delicacy with songs that are melodically and lyrically purposeful and arrangements that hypnotically weave. Band members have played in the SF music scene over the past several decades in many bands including the Rabbles, Shmoogie, Puffy Weeds, Aerosol Species, Static Faction, Cubby Creatures and Trona.
Starry Skemes & Starry Skemes II lp's
Here’s a link to an interview I did with my friend and blogger David Lincoln around the time of the release of the first Starry Skemes LP which explains a lot of what I’m trying to do as a songwriter ect.
Starry Skemes Mixtape Playlist
Starry Skemes Mixtape
Starry Skemes/Adobe Books 4/12/25
Thanks to all who came out to the Adobe to share and participate in this musical experience. Marina played a great set dueted with Kevin Van Yserloo on violin. Starry Skemes had a great heartfelt trance inducing and fun set. It was a pleasure. Thanks to Tom Scharff for stagehanding and recording and Jonnie Fellmen for hosting!