gary rasmussen

spoke with ex-sonic's rendezvous band bassist gary rasmussen by phone this morning. he's got a busy weekend ahead debuting a new band with some dee-troit pals, smokin' moses, at the motor city's labor day arts, beats and eats fest. the band originally got together for an upcoming pbs special where present day bands play music from detroit's illustrious rockaroll past. other than that, he's been building a studio ("we had a hurricane come through and knock down some cherry trees, so we harvested the wood and used it in the studio") and playing a range of gigs even more variegated than matt hembree's -- from handling the upright bass in a trio playing jazz standards to trying his hand at lead guitar with a country band. release of a compilation of material from gary's '60s/early '70s band the up (with liner notes by yr humble chronicler o' events) on brit label easy action records is now pushed back to october.