Alter-Natives

While it began with Richmond, VA and signed to an experimentally minded SST files in the past due ’80s, the Alter-Natives were a flute and sax led improv-esque quartet that received high marks for his or her instrumental make of sound. Both 1986’s Keep Your Tongue and 1988’s Group Therapy had been based for this setup, but 1989’s Hype scaled back again the flute and sax for a far more traditional setup, using the older favorites: drums, bass, and acoustic guitar. As a unusual apart, the Alter-Natives also transported within their rates an early person in cartoon metallic crazies, GWAR. Drummer Jim Thompson used the foam-padded pariahs until 1987 as Hans Sphincter (later on transformed to Hans Orifice).