Deadweight began as a duo of Barnes and Bass, who were graduates of San Francisco Conservatory of Music, later joined by Baldi.
[1] Deadweight has toured both nationally and internationally and has opened for Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.
[2] Deadweight's third album, Stroking the Moon (2003), was released on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label.
Playing the violin and cello through a variety of guitar effects,[2] their studio recorded material is hard rock.
Examples include, "(howling) like something out of Beethoven's most twisted hallucinations,"[3] "Eastern European Gypsy songs sung in the back of a big rig driven across tornado country by the ghost of the Marlboro Man"[4] and "Charlie Daniels in hell playing a combination of Bartok and Zeppelin.