Choir Invisible
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The Choir Invisible was a rock band from Los Angeles (ca.1981) Comprised of John Curry (Vocals, Keyboards) Scott Lasken (Bass) Thames Sinclair (guitar) and Danny Benair (drums)
Curry and Lasken were founding members of The Flyboys, a punk rock group that recorded the first album ever released by Frontier records, a small independent label started by Lisa Fancher in 1979.[1]
Thames Sinclair joined the Flyboys after the death of David Wilson in a car crash in 1978. Curry, Lasken and Sinclair then went on to form Choir Invisible with the addition of Danny Benair on Drums.
The band was essentially put together by Lisa Fancher. After the break up of The Flyboys, Lasken and Sinclair recorded a demo with singer Michael Sinatra and gave it to Fancher for possible release on Frontier Records.
Fancher agreed to put out an album if Curry returned as vocalist and she was instrumental in finding Benair to play drums. Benair had formally played with the Quick and went on to drum with the Three O'clock.
The Choir Invisible album came out in 1981 to great local acclaim where the band was compared to David Bowie and Roxy Music. And open shows locally for Depeche Mode, Romeo Void, Christian Death as well as touring the US in Late 1981
The Music was dark, but melodic with swirling, atmospheric guitars and synths and was a precursor to the coming English post-punk movement that spawned bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure, and Magazine
Old grudges and drug use caused the band to break up shortly after the tour concluded.
Although, the three principle members did reconvene to record a second record for PVC in 1982, the grouped was never a cohesive unit. Curry and Lasken retired from the music business until Curry briefly resurfaced in the mid 90's to play guitar in a short lived group called Polar Bear formed by ex-Janes Addiction bass player, Eric Avery which also featured drummer Biff Sanders from Ethyl Meatplow
The Flyboys also came out of retirement to play reunion shows at the LA Weekly 25th Anniversary Party in 2003 and the recent Release Party for Brendan Mullen's Photo Book of The Masque, the first punk rock club in Los Angeles, where there played some of there earliest shows.
