Clint Conley is a musician from Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the bassist for Mission of Burma. After Burma broke up in 1983, Conley dropped out of music until 2001 (working as a producer for a Boston television station), when he returned with Consonant. Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Official website: www. ... Mission of Burma LP cover Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer. ...
Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist ClintConley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer.
While in early years Burma's audience was limited, today Mission of Burma is widely acknowledged as one of the first groups to achieve the potential of modern alternative/independent rock, fusing punk and experimental music into some of the most influential music to come out of the American punk/no wave scene.
They took their name from a "Mission of Burma" plaque Conley saw on a New York City diplomatic building; he thought the phrase had a "sort of murky and disturbing" quality (Azzerad, 97).
ClintConley: Yeah, he was the chief songwriter and singer for Bedhead, which morphed into The New Year, but of course, he plays guitar in that band and plays drums in mine.
ClintConley: We'd been approached several times over the years and I always said no, but it was proposed about two years ago, and I was writing music at the time and feeling very...you know, that that part of me was back.
ClintConley: Yeah, it varies, but in general, I write a melody and chords, and I have these notebooks filled with her poems and I just kind of forage around until I catch a line.
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