White Light Revolver

White Light Revolver started in Phoenix, Arizona as an exploratory side project from Chance Reaction (co-founder of Christus and The Cosmonauts, aka. Christus Christus) and fellow obsessive psychedelic audiophile, Rick Reed, in the early Nineties. Initially unencumbered by technical musicianship, the two rejoiced in a playful experimentation reminiscent of the early works from The Residents and Cabaret Voltaire. Soon they formed a solid core trio with guitarist Blake Hall, whose more studied background made an inspiring foil for main songwriter Chance Reaction's psychickly-intuitive compositional naivite'. Moog-wrangler Rick glued it all together- a natural at laying down some heavy atmopherics. Darren Morphis was engineer at In Your Face studios when WLR recorded twelve trax in two days (making up the meat of the 'Walk Through Me (Exit)' album in '97). Initially offering his services on-the-spot as a professionally trained Chapman-stick & Fretless bassist, Darren quickly became a permanent member and ultimately the Zen rock of the band's personality-dynamic. White Light Revolvers' live presence was mostly in collusion with ThoughtCrime, a TOPY- affiliated multimedia art gallery and performance space. Sadly, various problems- both rock-n-roll and domestic- fizzled the band out by the turn of the Century, although Chance and Rick have wanted the oppurtunity to work together again for some years (prevented so far by Chance Reaction's relocation to Colorado). Chance has recently collaborated on the Ancestral Vessel project with Dellianan of The Sea and Lucien Morningstar (both from Blood Red Thread and The Necro Sluts). Check out their Myspace pages!I also have a personal page (Chance Reaction), containing various other tidbits of info for the curious!Oh yeah, a handful of Phoenix folk may know us better as Halogen (until we noticed a slew of other bands having taken up the moniker- including another local band!!)