Jamie Lane (guitar and vocals); Dan Peters (drums); and Kurt Danielson (bass and a few backup vox). Tad Doyle joined briefly on guitar and vox just before the band's demise; and during the earlier years of the band's existence (here represented by "ASH WEDNESDAY"), Russ Bartlett was the lead singer (although, as noted elsewhere, Kurt Schonberg was the very first lead singer of the band, just as Jeff Hopper was the band's very first guitarist; prehistoric demos of this primal incarnation of the band do exist, and they may be available one day for your listening pleasure, depending on how things go; stay tuned for further developments on that front); Russ had previously been the band's original drummer.
Influences
In earlier incarnations, there was a definite post-punk vibe to the band's sound; as they evolved, however, they got heavier and heavier: via osmosis, they absorbed the new aesthetic that was just starting to pervade Seattle in those days: a fusion of punk, post-punk, blues, and hard rock. As time went on, and the band got heavier, they felt what was in the air and did their best to reproduce it in their music.
Sounds Like
Midgets on acid, ketamine, magic mushrooms, and wormwood sucked into an augur while rehearsing the Magic Flute by Mozart.
Bundle of Hiss was a band that bassist/lyric-writer Kurt Danielson started with high school friends in 1980 (Kurt, now an ancient codger, graduated in the halcyon nights of '81). When he moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, Kurt, quasi-original singer Russ Bartlett, and drummer Dan Peters met Jamie Lane, who joined on guitar (after original guitarist Jeff Hopper left the group, just as the actual original singer Kurt Schonberg had earlier left; note that the band was actually born and incubated in Kurt S.'s parent's garage; very early 4-track recordings of this original incarnation of the band do exist, and rumor has it that Jeff is even now looking into the feasibility of resurrecting them). Shown from left to right in this page's main profile picture are Kurt, Dan, Russ, and Jamie. This incarnation recorded some early demos with Jack Endino. Shortly thereafter, Russ left to pursue his own career; Jamie continued on guitar and took over the vacant lead vocalist post, making the band a trio. After recording many demos with Ric Vaughn at Audio Designs in Seattle, the band splintered: Jamie went on to grad school at Syracuse (he now fronts the Mellors), Kurt and Tad Doyle (who had joined the band on guitar and backup vox just prior to the break-up; he was already at work on the first incarnation of TAD and was moonlighting in the Hiss, and it was a cool, if short-lived, chapter in the band, a fit final incarnation that was well-equipped to fulfill its role as that of a band destined to make a soundtrack of itself exploding into still-living, still-quivering fragments that would survive to infect the history of alternative music, if only in a modest, humble manner) formed the second incarnation of TAD, and of course Dan joined Mudhoney. That's really all there was to the story for a long long time, that is, until Jack Endino applied his invaluable ingenuity and hard work to the salvage job of the old master tapes (a rather thankless task, but also one which Jack fulfilled w/ gusto, incredible skill, and the assistance of a vegetable dehydrator, which Jack used to 'bake' the mold and moisture-damaged master tapes that Dan Peters had recently re-discovered in the humid depths of his Ballard basement; the time alone Jack devoted to this job was worth solid gold), which Loveless Records released around the turn of the last century as the CD entitled "Sessions: 1986-88."
Community World Theater never had big shows, just great shows I wish I had a camera back then but I still have lot's of memories God I miss that place kinda funny it's a church now Peace out Mitch
