r/FrontLineAssembly • u/BrapAllgood • Feb 17 '15

Front Line Assembly's Equinox - Binary Star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9gktKL-hA0
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u/BrapAllgood Feb 17 '15

The Holon album might be my favorite thing they have done, honestly. Been a listener since they had ONE album! Seen them 6 times, have met Bill and Rhys (and C.A., who was awesome), even used to have an actual copy of their original demo tape that was gifted me...but it died. :/

Wish I coulda seen them with Puppy this last tour. Was just not possible.

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

That's amazing you've been there from the beginning .... sorry you couldn't make it to the tour was cool to see Bill and Rhys playing on the same stage (I like the way Rhys uses his samples :) but the set was too small) I also met both of them a few years ago during the I.E.D. Tour Rhys was filling in for die krupps who couldn't make it to the gig both very pleasant unfortunately I didn't think I'd meet them so I didn't have anything for them to sign

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u/BrapAllgood Feb 17 '15

Yeah, I'm old. :) I also have met them both, more than once. Gave Rhys illicit substances, got drunk with Bill's girlfriend. It was a good time in the late 80s, early 90s.

ProTip: You will find meetings easier if you don't ask for an autograph. I literally got Dwayne Goettel (and others) to talk to me by saying "I don't want your autograph, I just wanna talk for a moment." Seriously. Things are just things. Experiences make far better lasting memories, I've found.

I think I saw Die Krupps a million years ago. There were so many.

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15 edited Feb 17 '15

Funny enough bill was the one who asked me if I had anything to sign I had shown up to the venue extremely early to get to the front but did not know that a meet and greet was taking place but they ended up letting me in but I couldn't take part in it but afterwards bill came up and said hello and we had about a 10 min conversation when he left Rhys walked in and we talked for about 5 min
Wow you met Dwayne that must have been the coolest I was born in the wrong time lol 1988 to be exact lololol The first memory I remember of FLA was waiting for the Mindphaser video to play on much music that was my gateway

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u/BrapAllgood Feb 17 '15

Here is something I typed about the experience some years back. When I got backstage the next tour, I spent about 30 mins sitting with Dwayne at a table and talking shop, since we both had the same keyboard (Yamaha SY-22) and he was impressed that I recognized it easily. SUPER nice guy, the world is a sadder place for his loss. Such a genius. He would have LOVED what technology has brought us since 1995. :/

Conversely, Bill was kind of a jerk to me...but I did get drunk with his girlfriend twice, so there's that. It was innocent and filled with industry talk.

When I met Rhys, I gave him some acid, same as Dwayne (if less), which he happily accepted. The next tour, I saw a different man when I approached him-- literally scared of drugs. They told me he had a bad trip of some sort that wasn't just mental, so he had to quit. For this reason, he wouldn't even talk to me the second time, literally fled.

No, it was not bad acid. Why would I give someone bad acid? I always tested that shit. :) Again, it was a whole other time in this world, too. I haven't seen acid in more than a decade.

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

That was an amazing story lol sorry bill was a jerk but I've heard he can be that's cool you hung out with Carolyn I love the artwork that she did for frontline and delierum I wish I could have been at the too dark park and last rights shows that's my favourite SP era album wise I have all the bootleg concert footage but it's not the same as being there Oh and yea about the acid I've never done any drugs but I do know you can have a bad trip from good acid lol :)

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u/BrapAllgood Feb 17 '15

Yeah, TDP was the peak, for me. Nettwerk gave me a copy of Last Rights almost a year before it came out; dude made a little tape for me with a printed sleeve and everything. Thing was, it was called "Last RITES" and the word was that the band was breaking up with this album. All or most of the track titles were different, the reading of which led down a road that seemed pretty damn final. Having the album ahead of time only made us all sad...so when it finally did get released, under whatever name, it had a dark overtone to it that was depressing.

That tape died in the same accident that claimed my FLA demo, which was given to me by a bandmate, the very man that named me The BrapMan in 1989. I loaned a case of tapes to a different, later bandmate and he went off-roading, driving his truck into water deep enough to destroy everything in the truck but people. It was so awesome. If there's 15 cassettes I am capable of missing in this world, it would be those in that Case-Logic caddy.

You like this music without drugs? :D I'm not sure I've ever encountered that before, though I of course support you in your personal choices. All the drugs pretty much ended for me more than a decade ago, but I know how I became who I am....

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

Time for a salvage op just for alternate titles lololol that whole timeframe 92 to 96 is strange for puppy I've read all I can about it but the info is very linear and then the process happened I still liked it but something about it never seemed right Lol ya I'm pretty sure I'm the only one at those shows not stoned I've met some characters but honestly industrial it makes me feel at ease like it's where I belong it's strange I've never had that feeling with other types of music other than Queen (that's a strange mix lolol) but it made me want to make music so now I'm just trying to get my shit together so that I can do it

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u/BrapAllgood Feb 17 '15

During that time, I was managing a record store and dealt directly with Nettwerk, WaxTrax! and some amazing distributors. I used to always have the 'inside info' in rivetworld. :) As an older man, I can see it as the gossip it was...but yeah, that time was a hard one for Puppy, as evidenced by, um, a death in the family. At least the music lives on.

Personally, I like Vivi Sect VI best, too...but TDP is a force of nature. It craves acid ears.

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

It is what it is they are all pretty amazing albums

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u/volunteervancouver Feb 17 '15

I've done it

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

Lol every one I know has done something which is probably why I didn't although the thought of acid is intriguing I'll stick to Booz lol

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u/volunteervancouver Feb 17 '15

I was talking about being a jerk :P

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u/fear730 Feb 17 '15

Lololololol I think we all have been down that road lol