Neighborhood Texture Jam is a

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...

rock

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who fuse elements of

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, industrial and

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the ...

into a heavy, rhythmic rock sound. Notable for a member responsible for providing the "texture" - an ever-changing assembly of 55-gallon oil drums, hub caps, corrugated sheet metal, household appliances and other found objects that serve as auxiliary percussion. The band was originally formed in 1984 at

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by Joe Lapsley and Ed Scott. The first incarnation of the band lasted three gigs before breaking up. Reforming in 1988, the band signed with Feralette Records and achieved national recognition with their debut album, ''Funeral Mountain'', released in 1990. Following a line-up change in which Tom Murphy was replaced by John Whittemore, the band switched labels to

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and released 1993's ''Don't Bury Me In Haiti''. 1994 saw another change in labels when

closed its alternative mainstream division to concentrate on Christian music. The band landed on Snerd Records and released the 7" single, ''Rush Limbaugh-Evil Blimp/Awesome'' in 1994 and the full-length album, ''Total Social Negation'' in 1996. After a long recording hiatus, the band premiered its long-rumored rock opera, ''Frank Rizzo at Colonus'' in 2003, following up with a repeat performance in 2006. 2006 also saw the release of a pair of B-Side albums, ''They Buried Me In Memphis, Vols. 1 and 2'' on Snerd Records.

Current Band Members

*Joe Lapsley -

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

*Tee Cloar -

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

*Steven Conn -

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

* Paul Buchignani -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Greg Easterly -

texture Texture may refer to: Science and technology * Image texture, the spatial arrangement of color or intensities in an image * Surface texture, the smoothness, roughness, or bumpiness of the surface of an object * Texture (roads), road surface c ...

*John Whittemore -

Former Members

*Ed Scott -

*Sloan Wilson - texture *Carter Green - texture *Tony Pantuso -

*Tom Murphy -

*Mark Harrison -

*Fletcher Ward -

Former Auxiliary Members

*Derek Van Lynn -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

*Montie Davis -

*Sam Nowlin - texture

Album Discography

*''Funeral Mountain'' (1990) *''Don't Bury Me In Haiti'' (1993) *''Total Social Negation'' (1996) *''They Buried Me In Memphis, Vol. 1'' (2006) *''They Buried Me In Memphis, Vol. 2'' (2006)

Single Discography

*''McThorazine/Waiting In Sverdlovsk'' (1992) *''Rush Limbaugh-Evil Blimp/Awesome'' (1994)

External links

Neighborhood Texture Jam Official WebsiteMySpace
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