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scott weinkle
live-801@rcn.com
Oct 1, 2002

Architecture students Scott Weinkle and Eric Gould met Bass Player John Holmes and Keyboardist Lori Getford around 1981. They started by covering talking heads, Devo, Ultavox and the Buzzcocks. Although playing at Friday Night live together for 4 months Lori and John Broke off as they couldn't get into covering other people's songs.

Tom Holmes joied a later version of the band replacing Eric but that moment of expoloration was over.

Some of their original songs like "In Perspective" were extremely radical techno-punk and way ahead of its time, sounding like Devo doing "kings lead hat" Eno with strange electronic Drums and prophet 5 synthesizers. Lori and John tried to continue on their own but it was a meek effort. Eric and Scott continued to record and produced some really cool techno punk songs the best being "red sculpture". A picture of Scott playing in :2902 can be found at www.velvet-sun.com in the "Images and Icons section"

Scott moved to New York and formed Figure Life out in the late 80s. It wasn't a bad band and they played at CBGBs probably 10 times and put out an EP to some acclaim. After 10 years of architecture Scott Weinkle formed the excellent Velvet Sun. The CD that he has played most of the instruments on is now receiveing excellent college radio play and national press and is a critical success as of May 2001.

More can be found on his band at www.velvet-sun.com. Eric Gould is a successful architect in Boston and is scheduled to reunite with Scott on his next CD effort.

Although :2902 was never completely on the same page they experimented with musical sounds and structures that were 15 years ahead of 9" Nails, Suicide and many techno rhythms. Had they been in say New York with everybody agreeing on a direction they could have been a musical force. Even san francisco high tech bands like the units marveled at the sonic intensity and tightness of this techno-punk act.

We all mourn the loss of Lenny Berkstresser who came up with the name and was an advisor and helped the band in many facets. Lenny was truly a genius and a little too brilliant for this world.

I'm thinking to creating a web site for the band come to think of it as I have much of the old recordings.


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