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MX-80 Sound - I Walk Among Them

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MX-80 Sound - It's Not My Fault

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MX-80 Sound guitarist and founder Bruce Lane Anderson, 72, died on January 11, 2022, at his San Francisco home, where he lived with his wife, Meredith Clark. Considered by Guitar Player Magazine as one of the most “expressive, intense, and technically gifted rock guitar players,” Bruce spent his early years in Oolitic, Indiana. After trading in his trumpet for an electric guitar, he entertained schoolmates by imitating the sounds of jet planes and drag racing. Admitted to Indiana University’s fine arts program in 1967, Bruce quickly became the showcase guitarist for several regional bands, including Mrs. Seamon’s Sound Band and The Screaming Gypsy Bandits. In 1974, Bruce formed MX-80 Sound, merging players from IU’s music school with self-taught musicians. 

The result was a double-drum quintet with influences ranging from Morton Feldman and Ornette Coleman to Jeff Beck and Henry Mancini. In 1976, Bruce’s guitar work (described as “ferocious and nimble” by producer Steve Albini) was captured on MX-80’s first recording, Big Hits. The EP rode the coat-tails of 1970s DIY punk sensibility, though the band never fit comfortably on the new wave spectrum. MX-80 Sounds’ prescient approach was to mix high-speed metallic guitar, dense, poly-rhythmic percussion, atonal chords, and intelligent though often dispassionate vocals. 

Island Records signed the group for an LP, Hard Attack, which author Chuck Eddy (Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums) called “a distorted free for all that set some eternal noisecore standard.” Glenn O’Brien (Interview Magazine) said MX-80 Sound was “either the most Heavy Metal Art Band or the most Arty Heavy Metal Band.” Kyle Long (Nuvo.com) called MX-80 Sound “one the most influential underground rock bands to emerge during the mid-’70s.”  Seeking a broader audience in 1978, Bruce moved the band to San Francisco, where they signed to Ralph Records. Two albums resulted: Out of the Tunnel, of which Ira Robbins (Trouser Press) said, “may well be MX-80’s high-tide-mark, featuring convoluted breakneck melodies, cross-fed musical genres and Anderson’s white-hot soloing,”; and Crowd Control, which when reissued in 2015, Modern Vinyl wrote, “My God, this came out in 1981, what were they thinking?!?”

Bruce continued to record with MX-80 issuing recordings in 1986 (Existential Lover), 1995 (I’ve Seen Enough), 2005 (We’re An American Band), 2015 (So Funny), and 2021 (Hougher House). Bruce was employed for many years at Ameoba Records, and he recorded with Bay Area artists ranging from Henry Kaiser to Angel Corpus Christi. 

His close collaboration with MX-80’s Dale Sophiea formed the nexus for a series of experimental groups, including O-Type, The Gizzards, Brutality, Half-Life, Lazyboy, and Grale. 

His friendship with MX-80 vocalist, Rich Stim, led to three Bar Stool Walker recordings. 

In recent years, Bruce worked with the group Rattletrap and composed and performed a final MX-80 LP, Better Than Life, to be released in 2022.

Besides his wife, Bruce is survived by brothers Brent Anderson and Gary Anderson.

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Mx-80 Sound - Kid Stuff

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Stress Jingle/Station ID #21: Rich Stim Rich Stim is the lead singer and sax player in the eclectic art-metal-rock band MX-80 (also known as MX-80 Sound). Considered "one of the most out of step but prescient bands of its time," MX-80 defies simple classification with its breakneck metallic guitar combined with atonal chord structures, cross-rhythmic percussion and Stim's deadpan, absurdist prose and dizzying sax. Their unique sonic melange set the stage for bands such as Swans, Shellac, Codeine and Sonic Youth. Originally formed in 1974 in Bloomington, Indiana, by guitarist Bruce Anderson and bassist Dale Sophiea, MX-80 first released an EP (Big Hits) which managed to impress Island Records to sign them, but the resulting Hard Attack never came out in the States and attracted little atention aside from critical raves. Nowadays it's considered as a key document of the mid-70s proto-punk zeitgeist, along with Pere Ubu's Modern Dance, Debris' Static Disposal and Destroy All Monsters' 1974-1976. The group relocated to San Francisco in 1978, which brought them into the local orbit of the Residents, who signed them to their label Ralph Records, where they released Out of the Tunnel, often considered to be one of their highest achievements, and Crowd Control. A litigation-enforced five-years hiatus followed, forcing the band to release a series of pseudonymous works (Gizzards, Half-Life, O-Type). Besides MX-80, Rich Stim as worked since 1982 in Angel Corpus Christi, a musical project with his wife Andrea Ross. MX-80 returned in 1987 with Existential Lover, and went on recording occasionally throughout the 90s. In 2005 they had a triumphant comeback with We're an American Band, "a masterwork that mixes Satan, Howard Hughes and current theories on brain transplants." MX-80 continues to reside and record in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are rumoured to be working on a new release. "If ever a band realized the potential of pre-punk "underground" noise rock, MX-80 is it." Trouser Press