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artist The Vertical Struts

Edmonton, AB, CANADA
genres
Alt Rock, Punk
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biographical info

The Vertical Struts r.i.p 2001 - 2006. If you had a knife you could have cut the Vertical Struts into two base components: one drumming auteur Trevor Anderson, ready, able, and unwilling to spread faggy gospel through orthodox means. The other: R. E. Biesinger, player of a for-profit ear-doctor's wet dreams and singer of verses and choruses. These were the Vertical Struts: a federal entity that took conflicting styles, contrasting arts and pansexuality and forced them into two throats, six strings, two sticks and a single clear will. In short, let's just call them an updated, amplified, revolutionized, colourized, etc., early Kinks with the four pieces pared down to a nimble and overblown two. Yup, they had the moods of the '60s Mods but harnessed a new kind of energy. They were an atypical pushing-and-shoving kinda continuum of the Who, the Gories, the Gossip, the Beat Happening, Serge Gainsbourg, the Brian Jonestown Massacre's slow points, Mick Jagger's hollering and a kind of minimalism more often seen on canvas.

lineup

R. E. (Raymond) Biesinger sings, guitars
Trevor Anderson member

influences

illustrating
making movies
van heists in vancouver
couch fires in victoria
highway crashes in wisconsin
The Vertical Struts
Label Independent
Released November, 2005
The Vertical Struts
Plans for Her b.w. Blues from an Airplane
Label Independent
Released May, 2004
Plans for Her b.w. Blues from an Airplane
CJSR FM 88.5's 18th Birthday compilation
Label Independent
Released September, 2002
CJSR FM 88.5's 18th Birthday compilation
Mid City Team vs. the Vertical Struts
Label Independent
Released March, 2002
Mid City Team vs. the Vertical Struts
CJSR FM 88.5's 18th Birthday compilation
Label Independent
Released February, 2002
CJSR FM 88.5's 18th Birthday compilation
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