Cleveland, Ohio – late 20th century. The band began forming in about 7th or 8th grade in the usual way, a bunch of adolescents in someone’s basement whooping it up. A mutual love of outer space adventure stories, humor and rock-n-roll eventually separated us from the others. What made it interesting was that we are exactly alike in some ways but totally opposite in others.
We both knew all the Bill Cosby albums by heart and were addicted to Star Trek. On the other hand, one was influenced by Yes, Pink Floyd and Sting while the other grooved to Rush and Zappa. One knew the Herb Alpert songs and learned Classical Gas while the other was into Captain Beyond and writing adventure stories. One became an electrical engineer, the other went into the medical field. One got married, one stayed single, then it reversed. One is tall, the other short, one skinny, one…, well, you get the picture.
It all gelled when the Arp Odyssey came on the scene and we seriously began creating “Space Music” – our blend of electric guitar and electronic sounds. We named the band Buzz Forward and Space Boy and started assuming different cosmic identities as we played. Our music today is the result of many years of recording jams, editing out the good stuff and then making more. We now have a semi-professional digital recording studio and do all our own stuff. One of us even went to Recording School, and the other finally got compressed!
Remember, 99% of the sounds we present were made exclusively by us.
early bands:
N.B.S.
Angel, Alfred and Crow
13th Hour
The Vomit Pigs
The Crew
Dreaming In Delta
Balls
The real-life story behind BF and SB.
early albums:
Movement Above Green
Live Kumtow
Go To Venus
Fly Across The Universe
common utterings:
You’re in the red again. I’m not loud enough.
What was that? How’d that happen?
What’s that for? How do you get it to do this?
Wonder why its doing that?
I don’t know, it worked fine yesterday.
It was in the 50 midi tracks I gave you last week.
What do you mean you erased it?
Where’s my diagram? Where’s the #%$@& manual?
Hell, you'd need a computer to do that!
(when the software didn’t do it)
Buzz characters:
Kreeg from the Planet Rom
Him Hommahurromdahimmihooa
Chipmunk
gear:
Gibson Les Paul, SG, Guild Acoustic, Fender Strat
Gibson E-B3 Bass, Fender Jazz Bass
Echoplex, Wah-Wah Pedal, Digital Delay
Distortion, Phase Shifter, Metal Zone
Chorus, Frababus, Botchalator, etc.
The Box (frequency generator with a ten turn pot)
Arp Odyssey, Lowery Organ, Roland Drum Machine
Roland D-50, Roland XP-50, Roland XP-30
Maracas, Tambourine, various borrowed drums
recording devices:
Akai cassette, Teak reel-to-reel
Roland VS880, Roland VS1680, DSP units
Dell PC, Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, Sonar
Frontier Wavecenter and Tango, dBX Compressor
accessories:
mic dragging on the carpet
various forced gastrointestinal sounds
thunder from close lightening strike out in the streetstaple gun versus screen door
bugs and frogs over distant traffic at night
a plane flew over, throwing garbage cans
Marty’s cowbell, Pam’s organ
golf balls in a bucket of water
an occasional Tennis Shoe
Space characters:
John Blowhard
Voice of Space Central
Sir Hillary Scott
Space Robot
Chipmunk
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