Biography
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Members
- Mario Lalli
~ACROSS THE RIVER – “N.O.” (unreleased demo, 1986)
Truly, the beginning of everything bearing the Desert Rock toetag. ACROSS THE RIVER were from the high desert, and were Mario Lalli (YAWNING MAN, FATSO JETSON, SORT OF QUARTET, TEN EAST etc.), Scott Reeder (THE OBSESSED, KYUSS, NEBULA etc.) and Alfredo Hernandez (KYUSS, YAWNING MAN, VIC DU MONTE’S PERSONA NON GRATA, etc.). They were young and totally hot n nasty in a bitchen BLACK OAK ARKANSAS meets midperiod BLACK FLAG kinda way. Sadly, they were too early for all them just-post-hardcore kids to fully grok. Plans for a release on SST (working title: Live At County Line) never came to pass; but the RIVER still impressed the hell out of guys like Joe Carducci when holding down the opening slot for (I’m guessing here) BLACK FLAG INSTRUMENTAL sets. These guys are a big part of the lifeblood of pretty much all heavy rock n roll over the past 15 years. And one day, the RIVER demos will flood into cyber space, and every stoner rock jaw on this dying planet will drop a good 3 inches.~
Article above & mp3 gem thanks to cymatics for
pulling it outta the intrawebnet
(clink the lick below)
someone asked me how Across The River sounded- the N.O. track from Kyuss was the only thing I had as a reference point.
Now the real deal !!!!
Link to demo here
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