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Editors bio

(below was written by Martin Earley, guitarist of Editors)

I had been playing guitar since age 13 and went through a succession of bands which is a lengthy progression in itself. In the late 70's early 80's, I played in an FM band called Amberbrat which gigged in the Tri-State area. Our forte was bands like Cheap Trick, Foghat, Deep Purple, and early Van Halen. It was relatively fun and only profitable to me as a roadie for the band. Then, two things happened; Increased drug use by other members, (spending my cut at times), and The Sex Pistols. I had always loved original music and we just weren't creating any. I played some Pistols for the guys and was loudly derided for enjoying the Punk Rock thing. When I took off for two weeks on vacation, I came back to find our PA and other equipment was sold to finance our bassists desire to go to N.Y. and play in a...Punk Band! (this cat was my most vocal critic as far as Punk was concerned). I have a guess that there was a huge Coke bill that had to be paid also.

At one of our last gigs before the blow up, I met Rob Dauphinais who also had a love of unusual musics and was a fan of my guitar playing. ( I had a habit of interpreting songs in Amberbrat, rather than learning them note for note). We talked about jamming with his buddy from High School, Mark Perelli. We eventually did, and from there Editors was born.

The idea behind the band was simple: Play music that we could all enjoy as opposed to covering the Dinosaurs. We took a simplistic approach because Rob had never played bass prior to this. My advice to Rob was “make it sound like a freight train”, which he did in admirable fashion. With Mark propelling us and me hammering out exotic, unknown, chord structures, ( I had forgotten most of what I had learned from 3 years of misdirected guitar lessons), we began to create a sound that was cohesive enough to play out with. Since we had only a small number of originals, we took on songs by the Clash, Pistols, 999, Siouxie and the Banshees as well as others, so we could have a full set of material. Our first gig was for friends and family at Robs parents garage. From there, we began to seek out work . Ron’s Place was our first “Pro” gig, which led to others such as Cell Block 11, The Lit club, Pogos, The Agora, etc.

We were kind of looked down on for a number of reasons. We weren’t from New Haven, we were a few years older than many of musicians in that “scene”, and we weren’t too interested in the fashion trappings, (spiked hair, pierced and chained noses etc.) Plus, I played lead solos which apparently was not cool. None of this bothered us personally. In fact, it made us play our stuff with more venom and conviction. (sometimes more than was needed). Our personal problems eventually got the better of us though, and for various reasons, apathy set in and we disbanded

We did have one reunion at the Tune Inn a few years later, (as The Octave Doctors), and another at Brothers 3 as Anal Glass, but both went badly and the whole thing was put to rest. No regrets. You live, you learn, and if you continue to live, you learn some more. M C EAR

(below written by me, Joe Snow)

I stumbled across the Editors while poking around online one day. I think I had done a Google search under "Ron's Place" to see if anything would show up and much to my surprise I found a page that was created by Rob Dauphinais to honor his band the Editors, who had played at the early 80's epi-center of CT punk, Ron's Place. I honestly had never even heard of the band before but luckily they had a couple music samples you could listen to, one of them being the song "Railhead". After one listen I was floored! Not only had I found a new CT band to add to my growing list but they had actually recorded in a studio AND they were great!

It was this chance encounter and a few others like it that really sparked the idea in my mind to do a compilation of unreleased CT punk rock. This stuff was just too good to go unheard for any longer. I'm glad that the Editors finally have music on an official release for the rest of the world to hear. They deserve it.

Line-up

Rob Dauphinais - Bass, vocals

Marty Earley - guitar, vocals

Mark Perrelli - Drums

Discography

2005 - "Up All Night" compilation CD, Incas Records

Railhead