Louisville Kentucky Invented No Wave

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In the late 1970s, vocalist Tony Pinotti and guitarist Bruce Witsiepe played together in No Fun, while Rik and Dave Letendre were members of the I-Holes, both of which are considered to have been the first punk bands to emerge in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1978, the four musicians combined into Circle X’s first incarnation, with both Rik and Bruce playing guitar for the bass-less combo and Dave handling most of the drum chores. Exhausting the resources of Kentucky with infamous live performances, the four relocated to New York City at the end of that year.

It was in NYC that the group converged with the prominent avant-garde no wave scene, including the likes of Arto Lindsay’s DNA and Mars, whom Circle X would pay homage to many years later on a `92 single, tipping the hat to that band’s legendary "Puerto Rican Ghost." More live performances followed and the band built up a reputation in the city’s experimental rock underground.

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― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

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― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

Love these guys. stence, scare me up a copy of that one lp I don't have! Do you have it? Digitize that shit man

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 8 January 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

i got the puerto rican ghost 7"... good stuff. the pleasure of $.99 singles bin.
m.

― msp (msp), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Ha - I didn't even know that Trouser Press is including stuff from that issue of Badaboom Gramophone!

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

what's the one you don't have, bro?

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Anyone want a copy of their Prehistory LP from the early '80s? I've got one I'll sell you for $9.00 post paid. Send me an email shoutout and I'll hook you up!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Tim, I do! That's the one I was talking about.

Check yr. email.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Louisville Invented Wave-Tek

= our local variant on the sad Midwestern artificial wave park for the landlocked and sunburned

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 9 January 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Wave-Tek totally ruled! I miss that place. Drew Daniel, I've been meaning to email you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

although I guess Wave-Tek was really in New Albany or Clarksville or whatever, so southern Indiana gets the credit, not Louisville. Drew, did you go to that Fugazi show in the place next to Wave-Tek back in like '87? I missed it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

Ok so this is the Circle X thread?

― you can now get married in a church of bacon (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 21 June 2015 14:58 (ten years ago)

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