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After a Boston childhood of bad new wave/art rock, Origin of Species, and good hardcore/art rock, SORRY , I joined musical idol, MISSION OF BURMA drummer Peter Prescott, and toured/recorded as the guitarist for THE VOLCANO SUNS along with Bob Weston, recording several albums, most notably Career in Rock produced by Steve Albini.
Years later, living in Los Angeles and ill-advisedly NOT playing music, I found old Boston pal (former SEBADOH / FOLK IMPLOSION drummer) BOB FAY who encouraged me to play again. We joined forces first with genius poet Curtis Bonney and later DAVID NEWTON ( THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS ) on bass and played gigs as Straight to Video.
STV became a last-gasp drinking/social club for a group of LA-inated 30-something pre-myspace post-punk art professionals: professors, writers, architects, slackademics who endured totally unattended gigs at the infamous Chorus Club in K-Town and Friday night drinks at the Roost. (Bad indie rock trivia: Curtis was old SF roommates with Elliott Smith and he invited him to our little Roost scene, hence Smith's song, "The Roost")...
After STV fizzled, my musical outlets included helping a co-worker Nathaniel Fregoso with his band, THE BLOOD ARM (I co-produced their recent album LIE LOVER LIE ) and performing in Glenn Branca’s historic LA performance of “Hallucination City” at the Walt Disney Concert. While touring Europe THE BLOOD ARM crew often listened old STV demos and encouraged me to somehow perform such songs as “Country Lyrics,” "Tie My Shoes," "Camera Adds Ten Pounds," and “Underage Friends.”
Cut to the fall of ’06: I now start playing singer/songwriter gigs and recording on garageband. Enjoy the page and come back and visit for updates.
Yours in all things hobby rock,
David Kleiler