Brion sounds a bit like Milwaukee's Sigmund Snopek III (occ member of theViolent Femmes), whose regular club gigs I used to catch regularly. Sigwould also use old brass trumpets, a toy piano, those swooshing sticks (Idon't know what they're called) and various other "toy" or"junk" instruments, along with a batch of Roland SH-101s eachwith its own sequence, and a bunch of other vintage keys. In the 80s heused a Commodore 64 to sequence his backing parts, and legend has it hebought a couple dozen of them when they were about to disappear so hecould just keep using them as long as he could. Eventually he graduatedto an old Mac.
He's a pretty good composer/arranger/performer, though he can be anacquired taste.
Snopek is a Mellotron owner. His tron was rented to Anglagard in theirone gig here in Milwaukee in the late 90s.
Anyway, the piece on Brion reminded me of Sig -- they sound as thoughthey could be alter egos! Cool story, thanks!
Bill
Hey, check out this interstingarticle on Brion from the Chicago
Tribune yesterday...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-
0302120057feb12,0,5707300.story?coll=chi-leasuretempo-hed
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