YOUR QUESTION:

04/02/2021 Nick

What was the story behind the one off Houdini de Sade performance from 1991?

MY ANSWER:

Right after I met Zorn when he helped us mix the first Bungle record I was initiated into his circle of musicians. I think Trey and Mike recorded Elegy, which was mostly a West Coast line up, almost immediately after our record was finished. A few months later he asked me to perform the Houdini/deSade piece at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, along with Willy Winant, Patton, Joey Baron and a bunch of others— I can’t recall who. Not sure why he never recorded this “flash card” piece. I suppose he wasn’t happy with the composition as a whole? Anyway, I had no idea what I was doing.