I just found our Planet 10 demo tape that Jack Rusher gave us. I love it. We just made it into an mp3 so we could listen to it at work. Jack is one of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. I hope he's doing well. Jen has the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. It brings tears to my eyes when I hear her. Amazing. If anyone out there know's where Jack is, I'd love to know how he's doing.

Jack Rusher and I were in Planet Ten together back in 1994/1995. He played the stunt guitar and I rocked the bass, but together we were, as he described recently to me, 'bullies who inflicted ourselves and our ideas on the rest of the band' ... which is probably sadly true. BUT! The good news is: we've recently unearthed recordings from that time, and Jack has posted them at his new blog site-- http://jack.rusher.com/cgi/index.cgi/music/original/planet_ten Jack sums up the P10 experience quite nicely here: 'We played a great number of shows, made some recordings, received some ambiguous major label interest, and learned that we didn't want to be in a band together. There's no way to rewind the clock and repair the damage to the friendships that might have survived this experience, but I wish I could.' If THAT doesn't intrigue you to check out the P10 stuff, what will, brother, what will?

Don Undeen, squealing tyrant of the GBFT, admonished me to list URL's properly. So here goes: Jack Rusher's Planet Ten Blog

The more permanent home of the Planet Ten archive is here.

I miss being in this band. Even though it was the original throat culture from which many other bands were grown. Somehow there was something POSSIBLE about it's chemestry. Hope I have the same sort of luck again. What a talented group of people.

Ah, me. Planet Ten. P10 was my first band. I remember having a discussion with Ned once about performing or band interviews or something, and he said, "You know, this kind of recognition isn't normal for a band." "Really?" I said. "No." "Huh." P10 was a good example of what happens when you get several extremely talented individuals together who aren't entirely sure what the other people want to do, but think everyone else either sounds good, is cool, or both. I enjoy some of our work, and some of it doesn't hold up over time, to me. But P10 wasn't about that, for me. I've been told that P10 wasn't about the music for me, and that's true - it was more about the experience of singing in front of people as a rock chick par excellence, which I'd never done before; getting over my stage fright; and learning to work in a group, or at least trying to. P10 was a big freaking mess in a lot of ways. Every person in the band had a slightly different vision of it. When you're in that kind of simmering chaos, you usually get some great creative stuff. "Been Here Too Long" and "God's Song" both remain songs I'm incredilbly proud of... but P10, for me, was more about what I learned than about how we rocked. It taught me what kind of music I liked, and what I didn't. It taught me that collaborative efforts can be excruciating and rewarding at the same time, and sometimes they're just excruciating. It taught me how to rock, and it broke me completely. But sometimes, when the lights were just right, and the room was quiet, and I was just belting some part of "God's Song," I'd look over and see Charlie standing across from me, his eyes closed, entirely wrapped up in the moment... just because I was singing. Everyone in the band, everyone, had a moment like that with someone else, and probably on a regular basis. Really, how many musicians can say that?

That's a very lovely recollection from Jen Doody. I've never heard her describe her time in P10 in such terms. Btb, here's the correct link to the Planet Ten archive: http://rhetoricaldevice.com/ASouvenirFromPlanetTen.html