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by lj diBernardo
Ask front man Terry Sullivan what he would be doing today had he not
become a musician, and you'll get one of two responses.
"An astronaut," he tells me without any hint of mockery in his candid smile.
Once too shy to speak out in a classroom, Sullivan then dreamed of exploring the galaxy: an isolated explorer soaring skyward while strapped within a protective, armored shell.
He is basically shy, so I find myself needing to prod my six-foot-four
subject to recant some ancient legends surrounding his rise and stumbles
through the 1970's, 80's, even the 90's, some of which he offers "off the
record." That Sullivan even responds off the record denotes his trustful nature.
In his long and storied past, he has played venues as venerable as
New York City's CBGB's, where he opened for "The Patti Smith Group" and shared the same stage as
"The Replacements"
"The B-52's"
"John Cale."
Or the time he performed at Max's Kansas City to the New York Glitterati (members of the New York Dolls, Ramones, Dictators). Included in the signposts of his lengthy career are the various bands he
formed and fronted: "Celibates",
"The Jumpers",
"The Restless" (Mercury Records),
"Terry and The Headhunters"(EurekaRecords),
"Dollywatchers",
and even his low-key "Low Lamp Sessions".
But that was then and this is now, and it's now that he prefers to discuss --
specifically the release of his new CD,
THEERTHMOOVSAROUNDTHESUN,
produced by Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls
(Good Charamel Records)
Takac is a respected recording producer
with whom Sullivan had wanted to work with for years.
THEERTHMOOVSAROUNDTHESUN offers a cohesive smattering of melodies and moods that suggest where Sullivan has been.
"It's basically a consolidation of various parts of my career," he explains. "A continuation of the work I've done in the past, though updated." His explanation points to his preference for referring to his new release as a "microspective" rather than a retrospective, a term that implies that while he continues to look intimately and soulfully to his past, he has no need to return.
He is doing what he has long dreamed,
he is living a life without gravity. Lucky for those of us stuck here on earth,
Sullivan plans to continue showing us what it sounds like up there.
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