Pearls Of Wisdom - Music

Band Of Susans Is A Rock Music Band Formed In New York In 1986 By Robert Poss Guitar/vocals Susan Stenger Bass/vocals And Ron Spitzer Drums With Susan Lyall Guitar Susan Tallman Guitar And Alva Rogers Vocals . Taking Their Name From The Number Of Susans In The Line Up Band Of Susans Released One EP - Blessing And Curse - On Poss's Own Trace Elements Label Before Being Signed To Mute Records's Blast First Imprint For Their First Album Hope Against Hope. After The Release Rogers Lyall And Tallman Quit To Be Replaced By Karen Haglof Guitar And Page Hamilton Guitar . After A Second Album - Love Agenda - And A Peel Sessions EP The Two New Members Quit Hamilton To Form Helmet And Were Replaced By Anne Husick Guitar And Mark Lonergan Guitar Forming The Line Up Which Made Three More Albums And One EP. On The Band's Final U.S. And European Tours A Young Jay Braun Filled In For Mark Lonergan. The Band's Final Production Was A Version Of Wire's Ahead For A Collection Of Wire Cover Versions Called Whore Released In 1996. Musically BoS Organised Their Three Guitarists Into Providing An Overwhelming Wail Of Feedback And Guitar Noise Layered Under More Conventional Song Structures Poss Had Worked With Guitar Enemble Composer Rhys Chatham And Was A Big Fan Of The Rolling Stones - The Latter Resulting In Covers Of Child Of The Moon And Paint It Black . Although Pretty Much Unconnected With It Band Of Susans Are Generally Included In The New York No Wave Scene That Produced Sonic Youth And Glenn Branca. After The Dissolution Of The Band Poss And Stenger Performed With Bruce Gilbert Of Wire As GilbertPossStenger. Poss Then Concentrated On Production And Solo Work Whilst Stenger Played Live With The Creatures For A Period. An Open-Ended Promise To Reform Under A New Name Has Yet To Happen. read less