Major Stars - Distant Effects

Major Stars

Distant Effects

(Squealer, 2002)

 For unfettered wah-abuse, Wayne Rogers is always a name to look out for.  When not making amp's smoke, he ran the Boston record store/label Twisted Village (sadly closed in late 2010) with partner Kate Biggar, also a fantastic "set the control's for the heart of the sun" guitar. Together they have a serious back catalogue of heavy lysergic jams, in the bands Crystalized Movements, Vermonster, BORB (which stands for, are you ready... Bongload's Of Righteous Boo!), and Magic Hour. On Distant Effects Wayne and Kate are joined by the rhythm section of bassist Tom Leonard (if your band was on the Twisted Village label Tom has probably been a member at some stage!) and drummer Dave Lynch (Vermonster), and over the 4 tracks and 30 odd minutes, the band just slay. Byron 'Disco' Coley was, back-in-the-day a heavy Vermonster-head, saying of their Spirit Of Yma album, "for lo-fi splatter, this is the max"; Distant Effects is another Wayne Rogers synapse fryer. On closer 'Elephant', clocking in at a mere microgram under 15 minutes, the rhythm section lay back, letting the guitars fire off shards of noise and smears of feedback and drone... seriously cool shit.