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Needless to say, when I read early last summer that camper Van Beethoven had split up, I was crushed. The guitarist, bassist and drummer had decided to make Monks of Doom a permanent thing. And the lead singer, David Lowery, was forming a new band...
...Lewis Carroll were alive and throwing house parties, Think Tree would be his band of choice. Formed in 1987, the band consists of vocalist Peter Moore, guitarist Will Ragano, electronic drummer and percussionist Jeff Biegert, and two, count em, two guys on synthesizers, samples, and vocorders, Paul Lanctot and Krishna Venkatesh...
BIEGERT: Personally, I like to explorenew territory as far as being a drummer or apercussionist. I want to do something differentwith the drums and take them into other areas. Ikind of step on the area of being a keyboardplayer sometimes, or take on the role of a bigpercussion section at any one point song.Sometimes there isn't much distinction [betweenkeyboard and electronic drums]. I play someoutright keyboard sounds that might be hard toplay in the keyboard because it's repetitive orwhatever. I hope to blend that more in the futurebecause there's a lot I can do with...
...Leppard has gone through several recent tragedies. on New Year's Eve 1984, the drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a car accident, yet three years later Leppard released Hysteria, an album which topped their previous album Pyromania. In January of 1991, Def Leppard lost their lead guitarist, Steve Clark, after a long battle with alcoholism. I didn't expect an album so quickly afterward, and I certainly didn't expect it to be this good...
...drummer, Johnny Koncz, must either be untalented, restrained or woefully bored. His beat varies little both within and between songs. The guitarist, Danny Hulsizer, however, is kept superbusy making noise. Sure, his strumming sounds fine in isolated spurts, but its constancy tends to overload the listener. This lack of gaps plagues many songs; empty spaces of silence often are as valuable as the music itself...