Band Rosters 1993 - 1994
Pre-Tone Era.
("The Slash Tones Blues Band") The Space At Chase/ Danceteria Jam Band
(January 10th, - March 20th, 1993)
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This was pretty much nothing more than a drunken jam band that didn't have a real name. It did spring forth the inspiration to make it a real band.
"Harry & Those Hep-Tones”
(March 26th, 1993)
| Slash | Steven | Sheehan | Hancock |
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A one night failed experiment in futility at my nightclub. We "tried" to do The Slashtones' set in an improvised Jazz style with sax instead of guitar. It was not a pretty site to say the least, but the concept would resurface again...
Tones: Year One
Harry & The Slashtones (1)
(March 27th, 1993 - July 10th, 1993)
| Harry Slash | Roderick Kohn | Steph. Bondy | Brad Rosen | Even Steven | Paul Sheehan |
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This was supposed to be it. A one night joke band on my birthday. Billed as "The First & Last Appearance of Harry & The Slashtones", it was the start of many "last appearances" the band would make. Just like The Who and Terry Funk, we kept coming back, whether we wanted to or not...
Harry & The Slashtones (1.1)
(April 6th, 1993)
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We closed the Space At Chase with an unannounced and unplanned short set followed by the trashing of the stage so that we'd be the last band to ever perform there.
Harry & The Slashtones (1.2)
(Circa: June 1993)
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We did an unannounced set in the Bordello Room at NY's Danceteria without Brad.
Harry & The Slashtones (1.3)
(Circa: July 1993)
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We did another unannounced set at Danceteria without Brad, and with Andy Bigan filling in for Paul Sheehan while Paul was on the road.
The Slashtones were inactive due to legal reasons from July 1993 to March 1994. Paul Sheehan went on tour with Raging Slab. Roderick Kohn joined The Thunderclub Band. Steph. Bondy performed with Lara. Brad Rosen went to court a lot, but we can't talk about that...
The Identity Crisis Era
The Slashtones (2) “The JazzTones”
(March 5th - May 22nd 1994)
| Slash | Mike Lawler | Bondy | Chuck Hancock | Rosen | Steven | Lez Warner | Sheehan |
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With guest: Mickey Leigh: guitarRoderick Kohn had joined 'Thunderclub' during The Slashtones' hiatus and couldn't return to the band and Paul Sheehan had injured his knee while on tour with Raging Slab and couldn't play a full drum kit. I brought in Mike Lawler to fill in for Roderick Kohn, and brought in former 'Cult' drummer Lez Warner to play drums while Paul Sheehan temporarily switched to percussion. I added saxophonist Chuck Hancock to the band and he was would be a key ingredient in the band's forthcoming direction. Mickey Leigh guest appeared with the band in NY. This version of the band went from a Rock-Blues band to a more Jazz-Rock freestyle band. Even our straight forward cover tunes had a more Coltrain like vibe to them.
The Slashtones Orchestra Phase One (3)
(August 3rd - August 9th 1994)
| Slash | Amy Wagman | Kohn | Bondy | Lawler | Mickey Leigh |
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It was like I reformed the original band and added a whole other band. Roderick was done with his 'Thunderclub' shows and Paul's knee had healed enough to play a full drum kit, but I didn't want to get rid of Mike and Lez. I convinced the rest of the core band to give the "BIG Band" concept a try. We kept Mike and Lez brought in Mickey for the full set. I added Amy Wagman, (one of the old Space At Chase staff) as a backing vocalist and brought in Butch as the second harmonica player. 4 guitar players, 2 singers, 2, drummers, 2 harmonicas, bass, saxophone myself on kazoo. 12 people and way too many notes. It was very chaotic, but the band refined it's musical direction towards satire and comedy. We added 'Immigrant Horse' (Led Zep meets Mr. Ed), our version of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" done in ala Carlos Santana meets Judas Priest and jazzed up version of "The Odd Couple Theme", (A one minute song that over the years would morph into very long improvised opening monologues about the various, never before heard of exploits of Felix and Oscar, depending on how many beers I had drank by that point in the set.) We attempted, and failed at creating a backing horn section of two harmonicas and a kazoo to follow Chuck's sax lines. While very funny and entertaining, it was a musical train wreck that got under the skin of some of the band members that preferred musical precision over musical chaos. The days of the "BIG Band" were numbered...
The Slashtones Orchestra Phase Two (3.2)
(August 10th, 1994)
| Slash | Wagman | Kohn | Bondy | Lawler | Hancock | Garcia | Rosen | Steven | Sheehan |
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With guest: Heavy Duty - spoken wordMickey had to step down due to commitments with his band, "STOP". Lez Warner overslept and missed the bus...
We did one show with this line-up in NY at the RockRidge Sallon on Bleeker Street. When looking back on it years later, Roderick and I both agree that it was one of the best shows in the bands history in that it was everything a rock and roll show was ment to be. Energy, band synergy, and a great band to audiance interaction.
"The Dreaded Slashtones Recording Sessions" Part 1
(September to November 1994)
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The Slashtones were starting to catch a buzz within the music industry and we were getting many industry requests for a demo tape or CD. We all went into Steph. Bondy's "Studio D" recording studio to record the 15 or so songs we were playing live. The rest of the core band and I reached an agreement, they'd let me record tracks on this album with everyone we'd played with so far and some of our other friends, as long as I didn't try and put everyone on stage at the same time again. Myself, Steph. Bondy, Rod, Even and others would get together in the studio about twice to three times a week and lay down endless rhythm overdubs, guitar tracks and record new ideas. We only managed to record primary tracks of only about a third of our set during these sessions. We recorded tracks for 'Immigrant Horse', 'Green Haze'. The Odd Couple, 'Are U Confuzed', 'Bad To The Bunch' and 'My Hillbillies' from our live set, and created 'Rockin' Gorilla' that we'd start playing live. After six weeks in the studio, we took a break from recording to prepare for our upcoming shows.
The Slashtones (4) “Back To The Blues”
(September 10th to September 24th, 1994)
| Slash | Lisa Anselmo | Kohn | Bondy | Lawler | Garcia | Steven | Sheehan |
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We took a small step back this time. Several founding members of the band refused to deal with the chaos of the "Big Band" concept so we stripped down a bit. Brad, who was quite busy as our full time Attorney, voluntarily stepped down and left Butch as the sole harmonica player. Amy Wagman was about to start going for her teaching degree and was replaced by Lisa Anselmo as the second vocalist. We tried doing a more blues/rock set without a sax player, but it didn't quite cut it.
The Slashtones (4.2)
(October 2nd, - October 4th, 1994)
| Slash | Anselmo | Kohn | Bondy | Lawler | Hancock | Garcia | Steven | Sheehan |
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Chuck was back again, but not for long. Chuck had to leave the band for numerous reasons.
The Slashtones (4.3)
(October 5th, - December 10th 1994)
| Slash | Anselmo | Kohn | Bondy | Lawler | Arno Hecht | Garcia | Steven | Sheehan |
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Arno Hecht of The Uptown Horns replaced Chuck Hancock on sax as a full band member, literally during a live show in New York on October 5th 1994. Our set was pushed back and Chuck had to split for another gig he was the main player at. Arno had dropped by the club after a gig and having never seen or even heard the band before, sat in for the entire 90 minute set of the Slashtones' bizarre, twisted arraignments and satirical cover songs.
Even Steven's back problems began to flare up.
The Dreaded Slashtones Recording Sessions Part 2
(October to December 1994)
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Arno in the band took things up a notch and it was back to the studio between gigs. We didn't record anything new, just added Arno's one man horn section to all our tracks and recorded most of the vocals. Joe Lynn Turner of Rainbow and Deep Purple joined us in the studio this time. Joe sang additional lead vocals on three tracks and arraigned all the backing vocals and harmonies for what we had recorded so far. Amy Wagman was brought back to record backing vocals.
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