Well there's a whole story behind it. Brian the singer was breaking up with his wife who played bass and really wasn't into it and he was being courted by another band and the remaining 3 of us went into it, Men Mechanical. My ex got PG so I had to bail, this is mid 2000. We has an offer to play a NYE 2000 show Downtown outside of VWT but Brian was too scared of Y2K! I was pissed reading back that article, I missed it @ the time bc a lot of us not succeeding was on his shoulders. And the cracking the whip line isn't totally true. He's a weird cat, much like HK from BotM both are super-cerbreal, where I am a from the heart kind of person. We spent so long trying to finish the CD we had more newer stuff we wanted to play and we tired of the old songs. If we had hung in there a bit longer we could have gotten bigger,I saw things in the local scene really start to pick up in the mid 00's..
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps Bob Dylan - Planet Waves Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
http://thequietus.com/articles/08782-levitation-need-for-not Coterie took our name from this bands early EP. They were a massive influence on us AND BotM! There's side thing w/this amazing Philippino lead guitar player who went to HSPV & w/Hk on Bass and vocals called Color Of the Sky that was post BotM and pre-coetrie that has some heavy Levitation influence too, as well as some Red House Painters covers. I have our last show that y'all need to hear. Band only lasted a few months in `94.
Tom Waits - Mule Variations Rickie Lee Jones - The Magazine Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
Felt like every year on a breezy September day came the news about the passing of a rock star drummer. Losing two legends of this magnitude in two years felt like being robbed and was devastating. R.I.P. Keith Moon (1946-1978) & John Bonham (1948-1980).
