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=====================================Hidden Agenda (1979-1985) was Walter Stowe Jr. (Vox and Synth) Mark Foster (Synth Bass and Drum Machines) and Bruno Seiler (Synthesizers) and David Ball (Roland Guitar Synthesizers). While others were asked to play along on occasions, this was the core of the band at it's peak.=======================================================
================It rose from the ashes of a punk band we formed in '77 known as the T.U.M.O.R.S. -aka The Underground Manipulators Of Rational Stupidity. We thought that was clever at the time. Other members of the band were PJ Galligan (Angry Samoans) and Rod "China" Figueroa (Christian Death).=====================================================
==================In 1979 Walter and I had grown tired of the sights, sounds, and smells of the punk scene and were convinced it had run it's course. Heh heh, yeah right. As I fairly lived at the used record store one day I found a quirky looking little album by some guy named Eno. This Eno worked with John Cale. That much I already knew so I bought it on John's say so, kind of. It was "Here Come The Warm Jets". After hearing Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch we decided that Eno sounded a lot like Ringo Starr and that Eno couldn't play synthesizer very well. And he made a record. DING!! We needed synthesizers!===============================================
=======================After looting all our vacation savings we had our good friend and synth mentor Jerry Spaethe drive us down to Nadine's on Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood. We brought back a Roland TR606 programmable drum machine, a Moog Prodigy, a Roland Paraphonic 505 string/synth, and my baby - the Sequential Circuits Pro One. It had a sequencer that I hooked up the drum machine output to and we had a Georgio Moroder style synched bass and drum foundation.=================================================
=====================We spent the next couple of years writing and rehearsing in our garage, and doing shows up and down the California coast from Orange County, to Santa Barbara county, and occasionally beyond. We made 4 recordings during this time - Few Decisions an EP , Clamshoe, Viva Debris, and Triage. Sadly none of the 24 track master recordings remain today as we split things up when the group disbanded. I think we still have copies of finished works. Somewhere.==================================================
====================The pieces I have put up here are rehearsal sessions complete with mistakes, tape dropout and all the flaws of a band going thru tunes for the first couple times. We liked to think we invented the brand known as Electronic Rock, because we felt Synth Pop like Depeche Mode was a bit lightweight. We loved synths but wanted them to manifest the muscular power of Rock and Roll like King Crimson and Kraftwerk did at the time.=======================================================
==============The listener will decide how close we may have come to that ideal but in any case we had a damn good time doing it.=========================================================
============More to come as I think of it, and a buttload of pics when I can find time to scan them.=======================================================
=================mark 07/12/08Slow Motion Water Droplet
