Band "50 Foot Wave" Deals With Bad Timing

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » January 17, 2005 11:43 am

David Bauder

Rock singer Kristin Hersh had something else entirely in mind when
she named her new band 50 Foot Wave.

Sometimes there's just not much you can do about bad timing.

"It's either on my part or God's, I'm not so sure," Hersh, a heroine
of the alternative rock scene with her longtime band Throwing Muses,
told The Associated Press in an interview.

The band's first full CD, which is being released in March, was
mailed to rock critics about a week before Asia's devastating
tsunami, which killed more than 160,000 people.

Hersh named the band after the audiophile term for the lowest sound
audible to the human ear. It has a dual meaning, too, since there's a
surf-punk vibe to her music.

The album's title, "Golden Ocean," is the phrase one of Hersh's four
sons used to describe how the lights of Los Angeles look at night.

She said she never made the connection between her band's name and
the Asian tragedy until someone phoned to point it out to her.

"I wasn't thinking about me," she said. "I was thinking about all of
those people."

So what do you do when something you create, through no fault of your
own, suddenly can make someone cringe? After the Sept. 11 attacks,
images of the World Trade Center were quietly erased from movies and
television shows, and plans for movies about terrorist attacks were
shelved.

Hersh plans to stand fast and thinks most people won't make the
connection.

"It was such a good name a month ago," she said.

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » January 17, 2005 11:46 am

OMFG!!!! THAT'S HILARIOUS!!!!

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » January 17, 2005 12:35 pm

so I guess that Jimmy can't sing "tidal waves out on the sea" now

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » January 17, 2005 12:39 pm

sonofabeach wrote:so I guess that Jimmy can't sing "tidal waves out on the sea" now

Or Sri Lankan Scuba Diver....

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » January 17, 2005 12:40 pm

nycparrothead wrote:
sonofabeach wrote:so I guess that Jimmy can't sing "tidal waves out on the sea" now
Or Sri Lankan Scuba Diver....

high tides at ridgemont high

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » January 17, 2005 12:42 pm

Or any song from the album Tsunamis You Know by Heart.

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » January 17, 2005 12:48 pm

Would it be in bad taste if we have a "What 3rd world country will be next to be hit by a tsunami" pool?

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » January 17, 2005 12:49 pm

PHBeerman wrote:Would it be in bad taste if we have a "What 3rd world country will be next to be hit by a tsunami" pool?

ROTFFLMMFAO!!!! I really don't see a problem with that...

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » January 17, 2005 12:52 pm

<strike>Boats</strike> <strike>Beaches</strike>Bars Ballads

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » January 17, 2005 12:53 pm

nycparrothead wrote:
PHBeerman wrote:Would it be in bad taste if we have a "What 3rd world country will be next to be hit by a tsunami" pool?
ROTFFLMMFAO!!!! I really don't see a problem with that...

why limit it to 3rd world countries?

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » January 17, 2005 12:54 pm

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:
nycparrothead wrote:
PHBeerman wrote:Would it be in bad taste if we have a "What 3rd world country will be next to be hit by a tsunami" pool?
ROTFFLMMFAO!!!! I really don't see a problem with that...
why limit it to 3rd world countries?

Cause it's funnier?

iuparrothead · Post by **iuparrothead** » January 17, 2005 12:57 pm

sickos!!

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » January 17, 2005 12:58 pm

iuparrothead wrote:sickos!!

Takes one to know one.

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » January 17, 2005 12:59 pm

iuparrothead wrote:sickos!!

Oh come on! Tell me that you don't laugh when I mention the song Son of a Son of a Tsunami!

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » January 17, 2005 1:17 pm

Discography

1970 Drowned to Earth
1973 A White Tidal Wave and a Pink Crustacean
1974 Living and Dying in No Time
1977 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Ocean Currents
1978 Son of a Son of a Tsunami
1978 You Had to Be There
1981 Washed Up Somewhere in China
1983 Pretty Much Every Harbour
1984 Wreckage in the Sand
1985 Tsunamis You Know By Heart
1988 Lotsa Water
1989 Off To See The Sharks
1992 <strike>Boats</strike> <strike>Beaches</strike> Bars Ballads
1996 Christmas Island Under Water
1998 Can't Stop the Tidal Wave
1999 My Beach House Is Now On The Moon
2003 Meet Me In The Refugee Camp

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » January 17, 2005 1:18 pm

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:Discography

1970 Drowned to Earth
1973 A White Tidal Wave and a Pink Crustacean
1974 Living and Dying in No Time
1977 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Ocean Currents
1978 Son of a Son of a Tsunami
1978 You Had to Be There
1981 Washed Up Somewhere in China
1983 Pretty Much Every Harbour
1984 Wreckage in the Sand
1985 Tsunamis You Know By Heart
1988 Lotsa Water
1989 Off To See The Sharks
1992 <strike>Boats</strike> <strike>Beaches</strike> Bars Ballads
1996 Christmas Island Under Water
1998 Can't Stop the Tidal Wave
1999 My Beach House Is Now On The Moon
2003 Meet Me In The Refugee Camp

VERY NICE DUDE!!!!!!

I never knew you were such a funny dude Charlie! Welcome to the darkside!

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » January 17, 2005 1:25 pm

Literary Works

A Pirate Looks At A Wall Of Water
Where Is Joe Merchant (and 150,000 others)

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » January 17, 2005 1:26 pm

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:Literary Works

A Pirate Looks At A Wall Of Water
Where Is Joe Merchant (and 150,000 others)

SPEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » January 17, 2005 1:26 pm

LMFAO!!!!!

Don't forget last year's single - "Coastal Regressions"

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » January 17, 2005 1:27 pm

Now Available on DVD

Dead In The Bay