1. Weasel Walter was born on Christopher Todd Walter, May 18,1972 and is an American composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of ugEXPLODE Records.
10 Facts About Weasel Walter
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Weasel Walter coined the term "brutal prog" to describe the aggressively dissonant strain of prog played by groups like his band the Flying Luttenbachers.
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Weasel Walter has performed as leader and sideperson in a number of bands, including Cellular Chaos and Lydia Lunch Retrovirus.
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Weasel Walter has produced albums by AIDS Wolf, Arab on Radar, Glenn Branca, Burmese, Lydia Lunch, Coachwhips, and Total Shutdown.
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Weasel Walter was highly involved in cultivating what he deemed the "Chicago No Wave" scene, meeting new musicians and collaborators through the Luttenbachers' art rock-continuum gigs and the experimental improvised music series he ran at Myopic Books.
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Weasel Walter graduated from Columbia College in 1995, with a final project, "Un-nerve", performed by a nonet including Ken Vandermark, Gene Coleman, Jim Baker, Kevin Drumm, Jeb Bishop, and Gustavo Leone.
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Weasel Walter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he reformed The Flying Luttenbachers with the addition of bassist Mike Green, guitarist Ed Rodriguez, and later Mick Barr.
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In late 2009, Weasel Walter announced that he was moving to New York City to join Behold.
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Weasel Walter played on Horrorscension, released in 2012, and in two tours before leaving the band in 2013.
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Weasel Walter continued finding new collaborators and formed a number of groups in New York, among them Cellular Chaos, a band with Marc Edwards, Admiral Grey, and Ceci Moss.