reformation
Part of me feels a little odd about this resurrection, but I'm mostly amused and excited that the band Information (my second musical group experience) has been invited to reform/perform at a gig celebrating the imminent release of Byron Coley and Thurston Moore's book No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980. We'll be playing two sets on Friday June 13, opening for a version of Lydia Lunch's Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, basically our first time playing this music in about 25 years.
The three of us playing will be the final line-up of Information (Chris Nelson and Phil Dray are the other two, both of the great under-heard band The Scene Is Now). We've done and seen a lot since the No Wave period, become "better" musicians, better listeners and (at least in my case) changed our aesthetic tendencies. In addition, while I improved my drumming greatly after leaving the band and played lots in the 80's in 90's, I have become MUCH less active as a drummer due in part to my stroke in 2001 and also an increase in computer/electronic music making and more subtle sound-work as well as a recent increased focus on singing. This is going to be challenging both in that I'm gonna need to do a bit more pounding than I'm used to and also we will have to try and recreate parts we made up when we were perhaps a little less musically sophisticated but which are actually quite specific and precise in their odd way. It should be fun, and a bit of work...
The three of us playing will be the final line-up of Information (Chris Nelson and Phil Dray are the other two, both of the great under-heard band The Scene Is Now). We've done and seen a lot since the No Wave period, become "better" musicians, better listeners and (at least in my case) changed our aesthetic tendencies. In addition, while I improved my drumming greatly after leaving the band and played lots in the 80's in 90's, I have become MUCH less active as a drummer due in part to my stroke in 2001 and also an increase in computer/electronic music making and more subtle sound-work as well as a recent increased focus on singing. This is going to be challenging both in that I'm gonna need to do a bit more pounding than I'm used to and also we will have to try and recreate parts we made up when we were perhaps a little less musically sophisticated but which are actually quite specific and precise in their odd way. It should be fun, and a bit of work...