ANODYNE HISTORY....
What the hell is there to do? You play in a
successful band for awhile, you break up, and
you need to find something useful to fill
your time with. That's it! Start another
band!
A while back, Harris Thurmond, guitarist
extraordinaire for Northwest favorite
Hammerbox was thinking as much when he sent a
fax to Steve Mack from the recently disbanded
That Petrol Emotion. "Come home-let's jam"
scrawled in thick black crayon was all it
took to get Steve to book a flight. Well, it
was either that or collecting pint glasses at
his local pub, soS
Marcus Pina was in a similar situation.
Peace, Love & Guitars had traveled around the
world, ended up in Seattle, and also broken
up. He liked some of the stuff Steve and
Harris were doing, but mostly liked their
drinking habits. He dropped off his equipment
and told them he was now playing bass for
them. That was cool; no one else was at the
time.
Like the joke goes, you can find good
drummers, but they're rarely sane, and the
sane ones can't drum. So after a slew of
drummers that leaned one way or the other,
Steve, Marcus, and Harris did the only thing
they could. They found one of the few
awesome/sane drummers in town and, erm,
borrowed him from Jackie on Acid. After
numerous bribery attempts, two near miss
"accidents" involving his other band, and
finally an incident involving duct tape, a
telephone pole, and a melon Rob Dent was
finally talked (tricked?) into becoming a
semi-permanent, full time-part time member.
Don't ask them, they don't know what that
means either.
Having settled on the moniker Anodyne in
the U.S., the band were somewhat bemused to discover
a number of clothes shop and indeed bands in Europe
with the same moniker. After much headscratching they've
steeled on the name MARFA LIGHTS for Europe.The forthcoming CD
tensor due out in July 1998 will no doubt open some eyes
and ears. Young
girls have been fainting in the street in
anticipation. It promises -- and delivers ten
tracks of powerful melodic guitar pop that
won't disappoint former fans of any of the
members' previous incarnations.