Zen Frisbee - Crazy Steven - 1994from the cd "I'm As Mad as Faust"
Chapel Hill's Zen Frisbee were ridiculously popular in their hometown. I don't really know much about them. Outside of owning this cd, I have seen the video to "Jonesin" on Norwood Cheek's excellent video collection "Young Rock". Those more knowledgable than myself, I invite you to comment on this band.
Band Members:
Clint Curtis - Drums
Kevin Dixon - Guitars, Vocals
Laird Dixon - Guitars, Vocals
Andrew Maltbie - Bass, Vocals
Brian Walker - Vocals, Guitar
posted by Michael Slawter | 12:01 PM
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Zen Frisbee were the quintessential Chapel Hill band, whatever that means. In addition to "I'm as Mad as Faust," there's a singles/b-sides compilation called "Eat at the Burrito Bunker" and a somewhat mysterious release of material by an early/different lineup called something like "10 million years BC." (As far as I can recall, all the material from their various 7"s are included on the Burrito Bunker CD, so it's pretty crucial, as those early singles were most excellent).
They were notorious around town for many things, including the perhaps predictable tardiness, sloppyness and general slackness that concealed their underlying musical genius from anybody unwilling to stick around for the second half of their set, when they'd finally get to firing on all cylinders & would transform into a mesmerizing rockband, fueled equally by the intricate guitar lines of brothers Laird & Kevin Dixon, and by the hypnotic sleaze of frontman Brian Walker's voice.
ZF were also notorious for their Halloween show which involved the members of the band wearing actual flaming pumpkins on their heads.
Guitarist Laird Dixon joined Shark Quest towards the end of Zen Frisbee's lifespan, and you can definitely recognize his guitar playing in both bands.
Laird's brother Kevin is currently playing in a Chapel Hill band called Bringerer, with sometime ZF bassist Shawn Albert, and ex-Pipe frontman Ron Liberti. Kevin is also working on a seemingly endless weekly comic called "And Then There Was Rock" for the Independent Weekly in Durham, which chronicles the long slow rise of Zen Frisbee in a lightly fictionalized manner.
Zen Frisbee were the best rock group to ever come out of North Carolina. You cannot dispute this. They could've been famous if they hadn't been so lazy. I guess the laziness was part of their mystique...That and B.O.
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