| ABOUT US,THE LECHEROUS METRO: |
| Is many things to it's citizens. It's a muscians improvising collective, a guild of artists and artisans, a society of writers and poets, an independent think tank, and in general it's really just a community (or metropolitan) of people who really are just centered on living their lives in their own creative ways. This community doesn't really have any specific location. We have card carrying citizens all up and down the eastern half of the US, from New England to FL out to the midwest. Mostly though, the bulk of us end up converging upon the southwestern part of VA at various times during the year. This is where it started some ten or fifteen years ago as a small circle of friends that, over time grew very far and wide and vast. Sometime in the latter part of 1999 it was declared as an autonomous city-state mainly at the instigations of Mssrs. Lowrey & Hauptmann (see citizen profiles). With this official self-proclaimation, the gentlemen sought to pool together the theories, thoughts, and ideology of the greater population of the metro with the intention of making a rough definition of what this city is about. Well, they got distracted and have sort of let it slide until latley, with the advent of this website being able to link all of us immediatley together from great distances. (In Reality, We're Just a Rock Band, With lots of cool friends!) |
| News/Propaganda From The Musicians: |
| It appears as though the Lecherous Metro has been assembling as a musical entity once again. After being set back by the domestication of Herr Cranbo Gundersenn and the general distraction of Lowrey and Hauptmann by musical endeavors with more "Commercial Potential", they have once again come to their senses and realized the power of a fully assembled Metro. Regular playing sessions have resumed once again, this time in a secret urban lair provided by one Cranbo Olaf Woden Toe. Olaf, a promising young drummer/musician came to play with us some months ago just about the time we realized our beloved Gundersenn was to be married. He has since spurred a desire to take things off into the realms where we are all a little uncomfortable but which will provide us with the payoff of maybe doing something we've not done before. Right now we are in the process of solidifying the core constituency of the instruments/voices and are incorporating some wonderful players who are new to our land. Soon, hopefully we will get to making some quality recordings with some good, inspired playing and, technology willing, our friend and producer Mr. E will be able to release it as a Concentric Transmission. |
| Updates/Gossip Spring, 2001 |
| Well, Well, Well, things sure have been changing since the last installment. None other than the great, St. Tom-Cat "Loverman" Jones came to make some good, quality music with Lowrey&Hauptmann not too long ago and a splendid time was had by all. Cranbo Woden Toe has gone AWOL from the metro much to the rest of the musicians dismay, and we have been struggling to maintain a lineup that actually works as a band at all. We are hoping that one day he would like to come back and play with us as we find him a very wonderful musician, but we must press on and discover new fingers for the hand. Kraus Hauptmann just can not play bass and drums at the same time. And out of frustration has taken to the remaining wild and free places in the mountains, and lately has spent most of his time getting to know the satyr within by building cairns, chasing fe-meng, and extolling the virtues of fine Bolivian flutes from every ridge, valley, and stream he can come across. Col. Cornisius Borealis has relocated to the great white north to live free or die and seems to be enjoying every minute of it. Young Stan is gearing up for a relocation to the sunny south to further spread the disease as only he can, Oliver Hamish MacGuinness & Morgana Evensong are soon to be making their way to the Andes Mtns. for a summer sabbatical, And finally, after expessing much grievance, St. Valencia Guildersleeve is AT LAST getting a profile on the profiles page in about...5 minutes. Still, however, the same questions remain in everybody's minds: |
| Will we ever be able to be a "real band"? Will you, the casual surfer, ever be able to actually hear what we sound like? For now these questions seem to be pretty grim sounding but all hope is not lost. Stay tuned, citizens for more late-breaking news from the metro! |
| New Years 2002 |
| Ok, after much neglect, we are broadcasting forth with another update. Since last installment, lots of things have happened. Oliver Hamish MacGuinness decided to take off to the deep south to live out some kind of Falulkner-esqe kind of existence, stayed for about nine months, and has decided to come home this spring. A Mr. Cranbo Orion Rasmussen has come to drum with us and make us a viable gigging unit and, boy, are we ever grateful! He is bringing a really hard, rocking, yet listening style to the Metro. Keep a look out for gig dates very, very soon! And because we were really starting to get ahead and actually have the chance to become a real band, Morgana Evensong decided she would rather focus on going to college than playing in a rock band. Oh well, that's a drag but has anything like that ever stopped us before? Well, I guess that means that the metro is now a power trio, with the occasional augmentation by whoever isn't too busy to help add to this creative monstrosity. That's about it for now, more later! |
| MID-YEAR 2000 |
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