Caterwaul (band)

Caterwaul

Caterwaul's landmark 1987 video for "A Flower and a Stone"
Background information
Origin Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Genres Rock, alternative rock, indie rock, college rock, post-rock
Years active 19871991
Labels Lost Arts
I.R.S.
Website Caterwaul
Past members Betsy Martin (vocals, mandolin) 19871991
Mark Schafer (guitar) 19871991
Fred Cross (bass) 19871990
Kelly Castro (bass) 1991
Stuart Smith (guitar) 1991

Caterwaul was an American band, based in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring Betsy Martin on vocals and mandolin, Mark Schafer on guitar, Fred Cross on bass and Kevin Pinnt on the drums.

Their debut album, The Nature of Things (1987) was released on Lost Arts Records. Caterwaul was interviewed in January 1988 on MTV's "120 Minutes" and the music video for "A Flower and a Stone" from their debut album was played nationally for the first time. The video, directed by David Kane-Ritsch, was notable for its use of photocopied enlargements of frames of film that were subsequently "colored-in" with what appeared to be highlighter markers and crayons. The extremely labor-intensive project (essentially a crude type of cel animation) generated significant interest among the music video production community. Later in 1988, Caterwaul was signed by I.R.S. Records and released an EP and two albums for the label; Beholden (1988), Pin and Web (1989) and Portent Hue (1990), before disbanding. Pin and Web (1989) yielded one minor hit single in, "The Sheep's A Wolf" that charted at Number 30 on the Billboard "Alternative Songs" chart the week of May 13, 1989.[1] Caterwaul lost Fred Cross after the Portent Hue tour, and recruited Kelly Castro as their new bassist. They also added Stuart Smith as a second guitarist. The new lineup recorded Killer Fish in 1991, which was released in 1996 on Lost Arts Records.

Discography

References

  1. "Alternative Songs". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-04-01.

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