Over on Bandcamp, you can hear a live Reverse Engineer improv set recorded at Village Green Records in Montgomery. Reverse Engineer is really Kenny Johnson, and whatever inspires him for that project. A few years back, I made the Red Hills EP with him as Reverse Engineer, and if you check streaming, you will find many other releases with many other members. (And that’s only one of Kenny’s several projects.) For this live set, we also had Tracy Harris, my brother in Stull. (Tracy has also written 100s of songs.) It’s a treat to play music or just hang out with these guys.
The instrumentation for this is:
Kenny Johnson – Upright bass and synth
Stephen McClurg – Prepared guitar
Tracy Harris – Drums
Based on the titles, I assume the other guys felt similar to me. The music ended up having a spacey jam feel to it, even though I was largely running plastic chains over the guitar or playing it with pencils, metal straws, ping pong balls, and wind-up toys.
If songs, particularly of the aggressive kind, are more your thing, you can check out several of Kenny’s other groups, including Terrible Lovers.
Stephen McClurg 