Band "50 Foot Wave" Deals With Bad Timing
Posted: 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.
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.
