DENIAL OF DEATH
If you thought you knew Brain Surgeons NYC or any of its members
in any other life, Denial of Death screams: THINK AGAIN. Nothing
these people have done with or without one another prepared even
themselves for the songs or the shows (and this is a band that
must be experienced live to be fully appreciated) they’ve
created since the night Deborah Frost, after working on 2005’s
To Helen With Love: The Concert DVD and confronting the chemical
reaction between herself and another New York native, throttled
Albert Bouchard awake insisting, “I have only one thing
to say to you: ROSS THE BOSS!” To which Albert replied,
“Why didn’t I think of that?”
Actually, he had. From the very first lick he heard Ross whip
out one afternoon in a Fillmore East rehearsal before the Dictators
even had a name, much less a reputation or record deal, Blue Öyster
Cult founder Bouchard (the dude who, contrary to the hilarious
Saturday Night Live skit, really put the cowbell in “Don’t
Fear the Reaper”) wanted the humongously ballsy chops of
the former violin prodigy from the Bronx in HIS band. And when
Bouchard and Frost, in response to fans’ requests to showcase
their songwriting collaborations (adrift and ploughing the unmapped
terroir somewhere between Gerry, Carole, Lars and James) put together
the first edition of the band, Ross was committed either to Manowar
and various Dictators resurrections, all of which have merely
thrust a hardcore cult of his own upon him in the interim. The
stars aligned when Bouchard and Frost, who’d toured as a
trio with bassist David Hirschberg since the Surgeons’ early
5 piece line-up succumbed to the terminal illness of one guitarist
and subsequent retirement of the other, invited Ross to participate
in a European tour to coincide with the Paris-based Bad Reputation
label’s compilation of the Surgeons’ critically acclaimed
first decade, Black Hearts of Soul. And the jams just kept kicking.
Denial of Death (yes, we know it’s a book, but Deborah had
actually written the opening lines of “Constantine’s
Sword,”-yes, another book- before reading it) is a furious
set of fresh meditations on the state of the world and the lives
of the participants. But you will no doubt have ideas of your
own. So let’s hear ‘em.
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talking with you.
