 50 Foot Wave: Ahlers, Georges, Hersh Photo: Steve Gullick 50 Foot Wave is an American alternative rock band, formed in 2003. The band is fronted by Kristin Hersh, who writes the group's songs with collaborative efforts from the other group members in composing and arranging the music. The group's name is a reference to both an illustration and the term for the 50-foot sound wave of the lowest F tone audible to the human ear. The band sometimes abbreviates its name as L'~, using the Roman numeral for 50. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (467x688, 48 KB)50 Foot Wave band promo photo by Steve Gullick (http://www. ...
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Kristin Hersh performing with 50 Foot Wave in Seattle, Washington, February 2004 Photo: Mike Baehr Kristin Hersh is a noted, prolific American singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and currently leads the hardcore punk...
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History Kristin Hersh spent more than a decade previously playing with Throwing Muses, releasing several solo albums as well. Her solo tours in the late 1990s and early 2000s focused on acoustic guitar playing. In late summer and early fall 2003, longing for a return to playing electric guitar-oriented, hard rock songs before a live audience, she launched the 50 Foot Wave project. While the spring 2003 Throwing Muses reunion tour and self-titled album had portended a raw and powerful new direction for her work, 50 Foot Wave moved ahead into an even more frenetic, punk-influenced rock style with a more direct lyrical approach, pounding rhythms, and sometimes quirky song structures. Throwing Muses is a post-punk alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects. ...
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The band was designed as a hard-hitting power trio, with a lineup including drummer Rob Ahlers and Throwing Muses bassist Bernard Georges. Hersh contributes energetic guitarwork and a frantic, manic lyrical and vocal style to this project. The band's first live performance was recorded in Burbank in October 2003 and released on a very limited basis as an official bootleg in 2004. Among other live appearances internationally in 2004, 50 Foot Wave performed a month-long residency of shows in January that year at the Silverlake Lounge, while the group was based in the Los Angeles area. The group's self-titled studio mini-album, containing six songs, was co-released in March 2004 by the band's ThrowingMusic label and 4AD Records. The power trio is a rock and roll format popularized in the 1960s. ...
Bernard Georges, born on March 29, 1965, is best known for his bass guitar work in Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. ...
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Hersh has described 50 Foot Wave's music as "having a lot of math in it," while also calling it less emotionally and musically "tangled" than some of her past Throwing Muses work. Others have described some of the new songs as having "confrontational" lyrics. Hersh describes the music as being "just about release" -- "fun" music that has what the band calls a "blitzkrieg" rhythmic attack as opposed to the complexity and fragility expressed in her Throwing Muses project.
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In March 2005, the group released its long-planned, full-length album, Golden Ocean, on its own ThrowingMusic label in partnership with 4AD. One writer described the new album's style as "metal" and "visceral trash rock," comparing the title track to a surreal painting, "brimming with irony." Another journalist, characterizing Hersh's new vocal sound as an "abrasive, parched, and husky growl," called the songs "emotionally and musically torrential" while describing a few of Hersh's longtime songwriting themes continued in the band as "thick metaphors about dysfunction, anger and confusion."
The group announced plans to tour across Europe and the United States throughout 2005 in support of the full-length album release, while Hersh simultaneously continued her solo concerts in alternating parts of the year. Hersh also stated that having the thunderous 50 Foot Wave material as a "foil" allows her to get her noise-loving side out of her system, with the result that her solo material sounds less like material for a band and more an atmospheric work reflecting "fluid timing and spaciousness." She predicted the next solo acoustic album she releases might be very quiet in comparison to an evocative, alternative-pop solo effort like Sky Motel, released during a stint in which she wasn't working in a band in the period after Throwing Muses' 1996 Limbo album. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
In December 2005, the band announced on their official Throwingmusic.com website the release of a new EP called Free Music! available via free FLAC and mp3 downloads at their website and several download partner sites instead of released through retail distribution of physical compact discs. The downloads reserved some rights though Creative Commons licenses. The press release said that the decision to use free recording downloads as an innovative promotional tool was arrived at because the costs of distributing retail CDs, promoting the band through touring, and marketing through traditional methods had become "prohibitively expensive". The Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) Logo. ...
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The web press release requested that listeners downloading the music spread news of the group's work by making copies for friends in exchange for receiving the music free of charge. The official website's music download page also provided a link for fans who preferred to donate "tips" at the music download page to support the group's work. In the press release, Hersh explained the free download distribution concept as stemming from an urge "to divorce money from recorded music" after she had encountered resistance "caused by little other than money" in getting information out about the band through "standard 'industry' channels".
Personnel - Kristin Hersh - vocals, guitar
- Bernard Georges - bass
- Rob Ahlers - drums
Discography - Live in Burbank (2004, ThrowingMusic, very limited: only ten copies were made)
- 50 Foot Wave (2004, ThrowingMusic/4AD)
- Live In Seattle (2004, ThrowingMusic, available only via official website)
- Golden Ocean (2005, ThrowingMusic/4AD)
- Free Music! (2005, ThrowingMusic)
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