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'84 was a tough year. It was the year that Orwell prophesied. In the U.S. Reagan
was voted into power for another four years. In Detroit, two seminal rock bands
split, leaving musicians with no gigs. Reagan went on to blunder through a mock
presidency, while the splintered bands, Negative Approach and L-Seven (NOT L7),
spawned a spitting, snarling, replacement greater than the sum of its parts.
Laughing Hyenas - the nucleus: from Negative Approach
came John Brannon, the frontman, the voice, the man.
L-Seven vocalist Larissa Strickland, the guitar, the volume, the woman.
Feeling that she could add a new dimension to the band with a
guitar style that was untrained (she had been playing guitar less than 6 months
when she joined the 'Hyenas) Larissa picked up the guitar and played from the gut -
the way music should be. With the addition of Kevin Strickland, the bass, the thud,
the tattoos and Jim Kimball,
the drums, the motor - the circle was complete.
Take a listen to the track "Slump".
