THIN ENSEMBLE - Free East Lansing Flashblacks

"Old East Lansing Free Crew featuring Randy Sutherland (in SF now) and John  Coorz with various other jammerz circa 94-97. TE started as an Abbot Road house  band of Sutherlands and after seeing em play an amazing set at the Otherwise  gallery in April of 94, I asked to join em. After that, we played house  parities where we got paid to stop, Highway overpasses, bridges, train tracks,  streets, porches, music practice rooms on MSU campus, everywhere in the city. Randy  played drums, alto sax and various percussion things and I jammed alto,  handmade horns and electronics. We busted a few early AM tapes, had a killer  collection of getting busted tracks (cops, music school students, other haterz)  slanted for an early EF release, and that was about it. The Alt Country scene was  big in EL there, so we opened for those bands a million times and bummed  everyone out. Didnt have a single fan, tons of freedom to explore. The 7 and CD  contains various live gigs and other oddities, some with trumpet and other  jammerz but the sounds are pure primitive rambling barely organized free sounds.  Good youth crew times indeed!!! Edition of 200, color vinyl, color art." - American Tapes.