PHS Press staff member
Boiled in Lead |
Boiled in Lead is a Minneapolis
based band of an impossible to define genre. They kicked off on Saint Patrick’s
Day 1983 and 15 years later released a compilation titled “Alloy”.
The Band is made up of Marc
Anderson (drums and percussion), Dean Magraw (guitar) Todd
Menton (vocals, guitar, mandolin, bodhran, whistle) Drew Miller (bass
guitar, dulcimer) David Stenshoel (fiddle.)
Alloy kicks off with “Arpad's Guz,”
a fast paced song that mixes a strange cymbal sound with an unidentifiable
string instrument. The next track “House-Husband’s Lament” is rockabilly at its
finest.
They go on combining the surreal,
(“The Microorganism”) the silly, (“Rasputin”) and the serious (“The
Dreadnaught”). Boiled in Lead pulls from a collection of 16 instruments
including Electric guitar, Hurdy-gurdy, Propane-o-phone, and Zurna to craft a
wonderful sound where you never know what will come next. The bass player Drew
defines what exactly a Propane-a-phone is: “The propane-o-phone is some long
metal pipes that, when you heat the column of air inside with a propane torch,
it produces that special sound that only a propane-o-phone can.” They are used
on “The Microorganism.”
After 32 years Boiled in Lead is
still going strong. Check them out at http://www.boiledinlead.com/
or search YouTube for some of their music.
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