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Boots Dub

by Choirs of Aether

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Side A 20:52
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Side B 21:01
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Back in the late 80s and early 90s a band called Seven League Boots arrived on the Boston music scene. The group was comprised of Bow Thayer (guitar), Richard Feins (Dickie Dred, bass), Mike Press (eMpress, drums), all from the South Shore town of Hingham, and Bobby Sullivan (lead vox), who was studying at BU after fronting the band Soulside from DC. The sound of 7LB was partly influenced by the times, aggressive and heavy with elements of punk and grunge, but there was another element: The Dub. The infiltration of dub music in those days from its original Jamaican inception into English and American pop was everywhere. So it’s really no surprise it would sneak into the musical influences of suburban rock kids.

As much as I loved the raw physical energy and volume of rock, my favorite part of our live performance was when we broke it down into an improvised dub (for lack of a better term). The mosh pit would dissolve or sometimes just relax into a slow swirl. I loved when that happened. But it was always too brief before we touched back down into the wall of slam. I stayed away from trying to perform any dub styles after 7LB disbanded. Maybe it was an underlying sense of appropriation, but it was really that I couldn't find anyone like Mike or Dickie that could lay the right foundation.

So after over 30 years and a lifetime of many musical influences it seemed time to try and recreate, or better yet take forward, those “dubs gone by." Back then we had a tempo and a key and just went off from there . . . pure improv in a live setting. Here we employed the studio vibe as well as other instrumental embellishments. The result is two full sides of our version of dub. It's pretty different from the ruff jams done in rock clubs in the early nineties but you can get glimpses of it in there. After all, 30 years of life has a way of latching on to the music that comes out of a person.

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Bow

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released February 10, 2023

Dickie Dred - Bass
eMPress - Drums
All other instruments by Choirs of Aether

Produced by Bow Thayer
Mixed by Vincent Freeman at The Underground (Randolph, VT)
Mastered by Alex McCullough at True East Mastering (Nashville, TN)
Artwork by Bow Thayer

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