Meet Strobe Talbot as introduced by Benb Gallaher.
The world welcomes Strobe Talbot. With them, they bring four distinct musical
personalities that intersect and synthesize uniquely. They are all supremely
excited indeed to share their music and their collective story with you.
Strobe Talbot has worked very hard to exist. The group itself is a study in
contradictions - members that live thousands of miles apart, extremely
disparate musical histories within the group (spanning three months to
thirty years), and a music that eschews the members’ traditionally
challenging and more-adventurous leanings in favor of a sincere and
enthusiastic exploration of ever-truer individualistic pop sensibilities.
Strobe Talbot has got four members: Jad Fair (vocals) Mick Hobbs (guitar,
bass, keyboards, vocals) Benb Gallaher (drums, keyboards, vocals) Andy
Fisher (bass)
Here's a bit about each of those members:
Jad Fair by Benb Gallaher :
Leader of indie-rock founders Half Japanese,
Jad Fair has turned out an exceedingly prolific seventy albums with a number
of different outfits since Half Japanese's 1977 debut EP, Calling All
Girls. With his brother David, Jad haphazardly revolutionized two
movements: punk and post-punk. Half Japanese was (and still is) a group
whose approach to making music was unaffected and unrefined in its passion,
resulting in some of the most enthralling, formula-free rock music EVER
made.
Jad's devout adherence to artistic self-sufficiency has earned him great
kudos among fans and press, and his idiosyncratic majesty has landed him in
a variety of projects with a virtual who's-who of independent rock music:
Maureen Tucker, John Zorn, Daniel Johnston, Jason Willett, J Mascis, Sonic
Youth, Yo La Tengo, and Teenage Fanclub comprise but a smattering of such
involvements.
In addition to being heavily involved with music, Jad is also a renowned
visual artist, with exhibitions having taken place all over Europe,
Australia, and the United States. His personality translates as well and as
authentically to visual media as it does to music. He's got his own web
site: http://www.jadfair.com
Jad lives in Texas with his wife, Patty, and lots of pets.
Mick Hobbs by Benb Gallaher
Mick is the primary author of music in
Strobe Talbot. A native of England (where he currently resides), Mick's
musical history is as wide-ranging as Jad's, if not quite as
discographically vast. His years of compositions, many of them pop
masterpieces, are precious secrets unintentionally kept.
Mick was a founding member of prescient post-punk ensemble Family Fodder in
the late 1970s, and his path soon diverged into increasingly ambitious and
forward-looking territory. Mick worked as a guitarist, bassist, vocalist,
recordist, sundryist (?), and/or drummer with innumerable groups and
musicians during the 1980s and 1990s, including The Work (with Henry Cow's
Tim Hodgkinson), The Kalahari Surfers (with ReR's Chris Cutler), The Momes,
his own Officer!, The Orchestre Murphy, et. al. This music is at once
cerebral and visceral, and Mick's greatest talent is to execute unusual and
groundbreaking ideas while maintaining both his personality and his
engagement to listeners. The austerity of Mick's pedigree, however, does not
serve to alter the fact that he is capable of kicking some serious shit as
demanded by musical situations.
The subject is also an extraordinary visual/conceptual artist. He has
designed several record covers in his day - most notably (in the author's
opinion) the eponymous debut by Baltimore group The Can Openers. Mick lives
in London, England with no pets. (The author suggests that he is very kind
and an eligible bachelor.)
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