Bio
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"New Music" has always been a contradiction in terms. Just ask
any songwriters worth their salt and they'll tell that there's nothing new under the sun.
So welcome to the magic show - 10% of original tricks and 90% of slyly reinvented genres -
all the while hoping that you're twisting the balloon animals fast enough so that the kids
don't notice how you're actually doing it.
Some individuals get drunk from dipping into their bag of tricks and putting on a show for
the masses. Charles Sickles and Greg Renza decided to belly up to the bar and picked
songwriting as their poison. Just like Brian Wilson and Charlie Manson, Greg and Charles
found musical compatibility and decided to team up. This diabolical collaboration was
dubbed Global Disrobal, due to Greg's obsession with world-wide nudity, and Charles'
reluctance to argue with him. (Actually, it was just a typo.) Now with Charles on lead
vocals and guitar, and Greg on guitar and keyboards (with drum machines and sequencers to
fill out "the band"), the twisted twosome dove head first into those waters
shared by many a fine power pop band and hoped to create a few suspicious "warm
spots" of their own.
Global Disrobal received positive feedback to their original material and garnered a
fanatical cult following, as charming psychopaths of this caliber often do. However, the
use of the "Robo-Groove '84" thing was beginning to take its toll, making live
performance somewhat of a burden. Enter the Dragon: Charles and Greg enlisted two
rut-busting rhythm mercenaries in the form of Mike "Wads" Kabbash and Eric Myers
on drums and bass, respectively. Mike and Eric were know far and wide as "Rhythm on
the Fly", masters of the groove, keepers of the eternal beat.
Driven by the power and potential of four musicians feeding off each other and spewing
forth a hard hitting spin of musical styles, the Global Disrobal machine was now rolling
at gangway momentum. This is a magic act capable of pulling anything out of its hat and
smart enough not to abuse that ability, servicing the need for an alternative kind of
balloon animal that's been twisted in all the right places. |
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