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Why I Like Dead Guys
It’s not an exaggeration to call Lynnee Breedlove one of America’s most important queer artists and most influential living storytellers. From his formative career as the lead singer of seminal dyke punk band Tribe 8 to his work as a trans activist in San Francisco founding the nonprofit rideshare service The Homobiles to his Lambda Literary Award-winning book and solo stage production Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show, Breedlove has used a singular voice to tell queer stories of love, grief, joy, and growth for over thirty years.
Trust Me is an acoustic punk/folk/storytelling band featuring Lynnee, Travis Andrews (guitar), and Andy Meyerson (percussion), and has become one of the heaviest, most beautiful, most inspirational, and most ambitious projects we’ve ever participated in.
Though we had all worked together in the queer nü metal collective COMMANDO, Trust Me is a new band born of and forged in loss. In the spring of 2020, in the midst of COVID lockdown, Lynnee experienced unfathomable tragedy: his father and stepmother were brutally murdered in their home by his stepbrother.
In August of 2024, Trust Me, his trio with percussionist Andy Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews, recorded an album and built a live show that tells that story and other stories of grief, love, and growth over seven days in the house in Grass Valley, California where the murder took place.
Taken together, this collection of songs and stories is why music exists: it expresses grief, love, loss, and life in ways that words alone simply cannot.
Who we are
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Lynnee Breedlove is the author of the novel Godspeed, was the singer for the legendary band Tribe 8, and was the writer/performer of Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show, a comic solo show on gender and the ensuing book, which won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award in the transgender category. He is the founder of Homobiles, a ride service for the LGBTIQQ community and its allies, which, along with his creative work, won him the 2012 Harvey Milk LGBT Club Award for Activism.
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Andy Meyerson is a drummer and percussionist based in San Francisco, California. He is the Artistic Director, co-founder, and percussionist of The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere experimental classical ensembles in the United States.
He is also the drummer and co-founder of queer nü metal collective COMMANDO, music director of renegade dance company Post:ballet, drummer for Russian feminist protest and performance art group Pussy Riot, the artistic director and CEO of uncompromising experimental chamber music record label Earthy Records, and a renowned solo artist.
Andy Meyerson has released two solo percussion recordings: “My Side of the Story,” a collection of percussion solos written for him by Adrian Knight, Jude Traxler, Brendon Randall-Myers, Samuel Adams, and Danny Clay on slash/sound recordings, and “Extra Time,” an album of percussion solos written for him by Sarah Hennies on Hasana Editions.
He is an endorsing artist for Spaun Drums, Innovative Percussion, and Marimba One.
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Travis Andrews is the co-founder, executive director, and electric guitarist in The Living Earth Show. In that capacity, Andrews' performances have been praised as “mind-blowing” and "a vanguard effort of new chamber music" by the San Francisco Examiner and "emotional, transcendent, and at times bursting with raw post-rock power" by the Charleston City Paper. In his work, he strives to use the tools of classical and contemporary music to foreground the voices and perspectives often marginalized by the tradition and its presentation.
Highly in demand as a solo artist, Andrews has been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.
He has performed with John Doe of X, Bryce Dessner of The National, Terry Riley, & Kronos Quartet. A musical omnivore, Andrews also performs with avant-thrash trio Freighter, chambercore band miRthkon, and queer nü metal band COMMANDO.
Andrews has authored articles and books for String Letter Publishing and has been an artist in residence at universities and conservatories around the country. He is an endorsing artist for Fishman Transducers.