Madmen in Vienna
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Madmen In Vienna
Formed in 1994 during the hey-day of American grunge music, this five piece synth band was quite an aboration for it's time. Dressed in euro chic, with careless flops of messy hair and an over confidence in their own abilities, the band recorded several indie albums on their record label, PandaPOP, before calling it quits during the recording of their highly anticipated Disco Milano release in 2000.
THE ORIGINS OF THE MADMEN...
Founded by three college students - Robert Person, Kent Friedman, and Christopher Biggs - Madmen in Vienna took their name from a track Biggs and Person had written with long time music collaborator, David Blei, during their final year in high school. The song, much like their future music with Madmen in Vienna, was general viewed as innovative and found the band... at the time named Dawnless Day... an interesting following of Goth Rockers, Booster club members, and extremely hot girls. Soon Dawnless Day was gate-crashing university airwaves with a series of radio performances during the summer of 1991, on such seminal radio programs as WECSU and WHUS (both in Connecticut). These programs helped the band generate instant recognition for their quirky euro dance style, hailed by fans as a New Order meets the Pet Shop Boys.
Their 1991 Summer Radio tour, featured Blei, Biggs, and Person playing on a combination of bass guitars, record players, boxes, saws, synthesizers, drum machines, and electric guitars. The tour wrapped up with a seminal performance on WECSU, in which the band so impressed the On Air DJ that he joined in for an live jam session - during which the band snuck into the control room, leaving the DJ playing a solo Bauhaus-like guitar riff along with a drum machine beat and classic music samples. Switching the DJ's virtuoso performance off, the band began to spinning classic glam metal records to a disgruntled listening audience. The evening ended with a raid from police, due to an influx of complaints. While no arrests were made, noting that in 1991 there were no laws against playing Poison & Mötley Crüe tracks On Air, the band were asked to leave the studio.
Despite striking an immediate cord with some, the general consensus was that Dawnless Day was "horrible, out of tune, incompetent." Blei immediately left for Israel at the tour end and joined their military. Biggs and Person packed it in and headed to their respective Universities, where both would stay in touch over the next year.
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