RIP Jon Blank
Jon Blank, bassist for Wino and other bands, died this past weekend of a suspected drug overdose. (See story here.) I am not familiar with his other projects, but evidently he was quite the musician. His work on Wino’s Punctuated Equilibrium was perfect – solid, supportive, supple. When I interviewed Wino recently, he praised Blank’s...
General Surgery - Corpus In Extremis
General Surgery‘s Left Hand Pathology was so successful at its aim that it made me mad. That aim was impersonating Carcass. Covering songs in tribute is OK; mimicry without anything more, like parody or commentary, isn’t. Left Hand Pathology was essentially a Carcass record – only it wasn’t by Carcass, which made it very unnecessary....