MUSIC

Experimental rock band from New York City, active 1980-81. Reformed 1998.

• Fred Frith -- Guitar
• Bill Laswell -- Bass
• Fred Maher -- Drums (1980-81)
• Charles Hayward -- Drums (1998-)

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fred Frith	Guitarist	2-Feb-1949		Avant garde rock guitarist
Charles Hayward	Drummer	1952		This Heat
Bill Laswell	Musician	12-Feb-1955		Avant-garde producer and musician

DISCOGRAPHY

Killing Time (1981, Celluloid (FR))

1	Legs
2	Aging with Dignity
3	Subway Heart
4	Corridor/Lost Causes/Not the Person We Knew
5	Bones
6	Tourism
7	Surfin
8	As Is
9	After
10	Gate

Reissued in 1998 by RecRec, including the songs "You Said", "Know", "Conversations With White Arc", "Carrying", "Bait", and "3 O'Clock, June 21st, Get Down There and Do It". Reissued again in 2005 on Fred Frith's label, Fred, including those songs plus "Third Street" and "F.B.I."

Funny Valentine (1998, Tzadik)

1	Leaf Violence
2	Down to Five a Day
3	Lizard-Skin Junk-Mail
4	Ladder
5	South Orange Sunset
6	Six-Cylinder Sinister
7	300 Days In The Vacant Lot
8	Say Hey Willie
9	Talk Radio
10	Well-Dressed Ripping Up Wood
11	Further Conversations with White Arc

Meltdown (2001, Tzadik)

1	Up For It/Song for Che/Closing Circles and Loose End
2	Hover
3	For Food and Scatter
4	Figure Out
5	The Empire Strikes Back
6	Over

Live album, recorded at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown Festival in 2001.

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