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A BRIEF EXPLANATION
Legend has it I spent 25 years in the woods doing
nothing but play the guitar.
I have named myself after an imaginary obsolete analog tape recorder.
If you want to believe that story, you can!
5 sez:
In Vermont I played mainly in the band called Bruce, also in various collectives at various open jams including those which happened at Dewey's and at Crossroads from about 1997-2000.
In Seattle I played the electric guitar with The Bond, Glass Goblins, Snoose Junction, Zoomsquad, Evan & The Modern Human Show and others, the idea being to play as much music as I could, all the time. I played bass in a few bands, too. That was a good seven years.
Now I am in Los Angeles. My girlfriend is here. I am glad to be with her. I am not in any bands here, although many of my Seattle groups are still functional, as is the band called Bruce. Mostly, here in L.A., I play the electric guitar and I sing, when I play out at all. There will be evolution in the near future.
***Glass Goblins is a specific attempt to wed Japanese psychedelia with a Medeski Martin & Wood type of groove. I am very fond of this project, though it is on temporary hiatus as the current members are scattered about the country. We will reconvene.
***Bruce is the world's greatest boogie band. Really. It's all about Marc Cantlin & me & the Big Groove. We're still based out of Vermont. Should be a new album soon.
***Snoose Junction is an improvising collective. We played at Mr Spot's Chai House (don't get me wrong, coffee house or no, we were LOUD) every Monday night for a year. What a blast! Since the personnel was never the same from week to week, neither was the genre or the mood. Sometimes we had ten people playing and singing at once, ranging in age from 17 to 65, with twenty more in the audience waiting for their turn. We recorded a lot of these shows and they are making it out there in various formats. Here's to many more!
***Zoomsquad is all-improvised psychedelically flavored ice cream, but with a definitely heavy temperament. No songs, and every session is different.
Every one of these bands has a special place in my heart.
I have recorded and released a bunch of CD-Rs along the way. They range from abstract and noisy improv ("321 Party") to solo-acoustic country-blues ("It's A What?") and electric rock'n'roll ("Kira"). There will be more of these - I can't seem to help making albums! It isn't enough just to play. I LIKE albums, I grew up listening to albums (I mean, forty minutes to an hour of music in a particular order, all at once) and now I HAVE TO MAKE THEM. I have posted samples of each on the CDs page.
Sometimes I write things. One thing that I wrote, an interview with Marc Cantlin, has been published online. You can read it here: http://www.furious.com/perfect/marccantlin.html
Anything else?
Oh, yeah: Nothing is etched in stone, don't let the bastards grind you down, and if you lose your happy thoughts you'll fall out of the sky!
discography
Seattle:
4.5 Won't
Do by 5-Track - 2002, acoustic guitar, songs and singing
321 Party by 321 Party -
2003, electric improv
Kaos Nites
by Kaos Nites - 2004, electric improv
GUSTY WINDS may exist
by Underground Weather & Marc Cantlin -
2005, a composition for improvising rock band by Marc
Cantlin
It's A What?
by 5-Track - 2005, acoustic guitar, songs and singing
Glass Goblins @ Chop
Suey by Glass Goblins - 2006, "psychedelic" rocknroll trio, improv & songs & singing
The Lowest Point In Ballard by Cantenna - 2006, improvised rocknroll
Snoose
Junction vols 1, 2, and 3 (so far) - 2006, electric improv
A Moose Supreme by Evan & The Modern Human Show - 2007, "psychedelic" music
Kira by Glass Goblins - 2007, "psychedelic" music, 4-song e.p.
Acousticophilia by The Wax Evolution -
2008, mostly acoustic guitar, mostly songs and singing, all by Woody Frank, Awake Productions.
(5-Track recorded and mixed 3 of the 4 tracks)
Vermont:
(all titles by the
band called Bruce except otherwise noted)
Marc, 5 & Ben Are Bruce - 1998, lofi psychedelic rocknroll
Rose's Cold Garage (live) - 1998, lofi psychedelic rocknroll trio
Bruceshit - 1999, lofi psychedelic rocknroll, cassette-only
Bruce For Your Life - 1999, psychedelic rocknroll, 4-song CD
Fewmets - 1999, cassette-only improv compilation
LIVE NUDES by Live Nudes - 1999, lofi ambient porch grooves
The Blind Shark e.p. - 2000, psychedelic funk, 4-song CD
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