The T4 Project

The historical view is that punk rock was invented to save lots of the spirit of rock & roll in the bloated more than the mid-’70s, the worst which was embodied for the reason that symbol from the prog rock era, the idea album. The T4 Task debuted 30 years afterwards with an record as outlandishly outrageous as those damaged, star-studded middle-’70s rock and roll operas about experimental traveling aces and Viking explorers by Hawkwind’s Robert Calvert. Descriptively entitled Story-Based Concept Record, the record can be an amalgam of these plot-driven oddities The Who Sell Out and Green Day’s American Idiot. The mainspring from the T4 Task is certainly guitarist and manufacturer Shannon Saint Ryan, who acquired previously led the obscure hardcore action Meet the Trojan beneath the name T4. (In virological conditions, T4 is certainly a bacteriophage: it infects and kills parasites, particularly E. coli. Embarrassingly, the liner records of Story-Based Concept Record claim that Saint Ryan doesn’t recognize that T4 episodes and destroys dangerous cells, not helpful types. Oops.) With music and creation by Saint Ryan and lyrics and business lead vocals by Jason Cruz of Strung Out, Story-Based Idea Record is merely what it says, a rock and roll opera in regards to a couple of teenage punks in like and their struggle within a violent and oppressive culture, shot through with satirical advertisements aimed at particular components of what utilized to become called the armed service industrial complicated. The documenting of Story-Based Concept Recording took 3 years and includes a genuinely amazing band that addresses three years and two continents’ well worth of punk background: besides Saint Ryan and Cruz, the shown members from the T4 Task are: Trotsky (Subhumans) and Spike T. Smith (the Damned) on drums; Jay Bentley (Poor Religious beliefs), Tony Barber (Buzzcocks), and Mike Carter (Cup & Ashes) on bass; Paul Roessler (.45 Grave) on keyboards; Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise), Greg Hetson (Group Jerks), Peter DiStefano (Porno for Pyros), and Armand Tambouris (From Satellite television) on electric guitar; and Nude Aggression’s Kirsten Areas singing the feminine vocal parts, plus a 37-person vocal choir. Story-Based Concept Record was documented in 2006, obtainable only as a primary digital download in the T4 Project’s internet site. It had been officially released in 2008.