Chris Bryers - Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Keyboard, Programming
Influences
Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Sun Kil Moon, Twilight Singers, Billy Bragg, Bread, Brian Eno, Todd Rundgren, The Flaming Lips, Marvin Gaye, Lindsey Buckingham
The "Lost in the Mall" technique is an experimental procedure that was used to demonstrate that confabulations can be created through suggestions made to experimental subjects. It was first developed by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus in an effort to explain how normal people can claim to have recovered memories of improbable experiences.
Loftus and her student Jacqueline Pickrell performed an experiment in which they gave participants four short narratives describing childhood events, all supposedly provided by family members, and asked them to try to recall them. Unbeknownst to the participants one of the narratives, describing a time when the subject was lost in a mall when they were a child, was false. The narrative described an instance when the subject was five or six years old lost in a shopping mall for an extended period of time before finally being rescued by an elderly person and reunited with his or her family. In the study, 25% of the participants reported to be able to remember this event even though it never actually occurred. Many people were able to provide embellishing details that were not supplied by the investigators. Loftus interpreted this to mean that the act of imagining the events led to the creation of false memories.
The lost in the mall experiment has been replicated and extended with different ages of subjects.
it took me a couple weeks, but i purchased 'Ghost Stories' via cdbaby.com - it is magnificent. and moody and heartbreaking. i'm sort of thinking that you have an entire album of "Cuckoo Bird"-esque Kzoo rollicking quirk-pop gems in store - sometime soon.
just got done listening to the first Sleet album you and Josh and I recorded. Havent heard it in awhile. Listened from front to finish. Still holds up. Great song writing and creative inspired music. Thanks for the good times!
btw- don't stop writing and recording you make great music!
well... you've done it again Mr. Bryers!! I give your new Album "Ghost Stories" 5 out of 5 stars- I've listened to it about a dozen times now and I have new favorite songs about every 3rd or 4th new listen. "Stay" is one of the best songs!! YOU ARE THE MASTER JEDI and you continue to prove that with every Album you make!
these songs make me want to sing along because they make me feel all kinds of emotions and that's the mark of a great tune in my book.
Bravo yet again, maestro. Have been thinking about you as I've meandered around Kalamazoo these past two weeks. Back to Syracuse shortly. Hope that the new year has already proved to be a good one for you.
well heck, chris: you manage to capture the eternal cry of youth in your stuff constantly. 'Watcher' sent chills from the first click; the rest of us 30+ folk struggle to avoid penning Neil Young imitations, you manage to write like Gilbert O'Sullivan crossed with Rozz Williams having just absorbed Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
i downloaded some of the new TASM songs. It sounds awesome. I put them on a mix cd with stuff off of Smile, and XTC and I drive around all spaced out. I don't even crash!
