News Release
April 2000
The platinum CD selling rock band Filter will fill Moravian
College’s Johnston Hall with hard-driving rock sound on Friday,
April 14th at 7:00 p.m. The concert will also feature guest artists
Veruca Salt, and SRC. Filter was formed in 1994 by ex-Nine Inch Nails
guitarist Richard Patrick and Chicago computer programmer Brian Liesegang,
a founding but now former member of Filter.
It's been four years since the release of Short Bus, the
platinum-selling debut album by Filter, the proto-metal outfit. Two
of those years were spent on a worldwide touring campaign in support
of the album and its controversial single, "Hey Man, Nice Shot."
The song was rumored to be about the late Kurt Cobain, singer of Nirvana.
The song was actually about the late Pennsylvania state Treasurer R.
Budd Doiwer, who used a.357-caliber Magnum to shoot himself at a televised
news conference on January 22, 1987.
Richard Patrick had written all of the 11 tracks that
would end up on Short Bus, including the single, "Hey Man, Nice
Shot." Patrick enlisted the help of his friend Brian Liesegang,
whom he originally met on the set of a Nine Inch Nails video. Richard
and Brian retired to a rented house in Patrick's hometown of Bay Village,
Ohio, to record the album. Liesegang was an exceptional programmer and
had interesting production ideas. The result was an album that peppered
Patrick's visceral straight-ahead rock riffage and chilling vocal howl
with Liesegang's penchant for incongruent found-sounds and production
techniques.
Short Bus was met with that rare combination of critical
acclaim and diehard fan loyalty. Filter headlined their own shows as
well as supporting White Zombie in the United States, and worked hard
to win over European crowds during the band's opening slot on the massive
Smashing Pumpkins tour.
After the touring regimen in support of the album, Patrick
and Liesegang contributed a song to the Crow 2 soundtrack ("Jurassitol"),
and teamed up with bold electronica duo The Crystal Method for the single
from the soundtrack to the movie Spawn, "Can You Trip Like I Do?"
Both soundtracks have gone platinum.
Patrick shuffled the Filter band lineup and entered the
studio to record the band's second CD, Title of Record, which was released
in August of 1999. Patrick spent the next two years writing songs, building
his studio in a Chicago loft apartment . Returning for active duty were
bassist Frank Cavanaugh and guitarist Geno Lenardo. Soon after their
return, Patrick found time to contribute a cover of Three Dog Night's
venerable track "One" to the soundtrack of the X-Files movie,
and search for a new stick man. Quickly the soundtrack went gold, and
soon drummer Steve Gillis was enlisted from the Chicago underground.
Readying co-producer Ben Grosse (the mixman behind all Filter recorded
output to date), and programmer Rae Dileo, work quickly began. For more
information about Filter visit www.OfficialFilter.com.
General admission is $20. Tickets are available at the
Moravian College Bookstore or by calling (610) 861-1499. Tickets can
also be purchased at Sound and Vision II at the Westgate Mall and the
Compact Disk Center on Easton Avenue in Bethlehem. Tickets are also
available on the campuses of Lehigh University, and Muhlenberg, Cedar
Crest and Allentown College.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective
liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its
founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college.
Visit Moravian’s Web site at www.moravian.edu.
