Talk:Remy Zero

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I miss this band. --ChrisLaurel 05:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, me too. Spartan Fidelty are pretty good, but they aren't half the band Remy Zero were. The Halo (talk) 12:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I was hoping to find information on why the band broke up. Can anyone add that to the article? Skinrider 17:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

In my own investergations, I can't find any reason for the break up. I know that they were working on new material, presumably for a follow-up album to the Golden Hum, but other than that, I can't find anything, and I'm not sure how we'd put that on the main article (Remy Zero was an Alabama based alternative rock band that broke up because...well...we don't really know why they broke up....LOL) The Halo (talk) 09:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

A very long time ago, I remember reading a story about how this band supposedly found a box of material from some musician named Remy Zero who disappeared years ago and their music was their interpretation of that material, or something like that. I haven't been able to find that; does anyone know what I'm talking about? Phaded 00:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm confused...the band's website now seems to indicate that "Remy Zero has been put to rest". However, this weekend, the band's Myspace posts a new song "Anger" and what looks like a new album cover...either way, this article is out of date.

The official website has been like that since 2003. They posted a new song because they are currently semi-active, but have not changed the website. The "new album cover", if you are referring to the blue one with a head on it, is in fact the cover for their 1998 single 'Gramarye'. The article is not out of date, it's just that most of the people reading it are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.177.2 (talk) 17:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

This misses a large chunk of the band's back story. While that story was created by Cinjun, it's nonetheless a big part of the band's attraction.

From Epitonic:

"Remy Zero was born Remy Boligee in Chelsea, Alabama about 1950. At around 16 he left home for Birmingham and found a job unloading trains outside the city. By 1969 he was living in a shack in a railroad worker's shantytown and had begun writing the first of hundreds of highly idiosyncratic songs. Around this time, he befriended Sam Bruno, a second-generation immigrant whose family would create a supermarket empire throughout the south. Bruno had acquired an early model reel-to-reel tape recorder and decided to use it to record the songs of Remy Zero. Together they methodically filled almost thirty hours of tape with music, conversation, ramblings, and long periods of relative silence (in which trains, dogs, and distant voices populate an eerily vivid sound picture of his world). By 1970, Bruno having since lost count of Remy Zero gave his recorder and two large boxes of tapes to the 12 year old Shelby Tate, whose parents were close friends with the Brunos. Shelby was entranced by the strange recordings and having no other tapes, played them constantly. By 1988, he and his brother Cinjun had started a band with their friends Cedric LeMoyne, Jeffrey Cain, and Greg Slay. They eventually found themselves playing exclusively the songs from the Remy Zero tapes and decided that while free to rearrange, reinterpret, or recreate the songs in varying ways, they would always preserve the essence of the originals. When they had a chance to make a record they adhered to this idea and even included snippets from the original recordings. Their bewildering music is sometimes highly expressionistic, sometimes bare and fractured and overall impossible to categorize. The band and record company made numerous attempts to locate Remy Zero and his relatives but have so far been unsuccessful. It is hoped by using his name, Zero will come to hear of the band and perhaps establish contact."

--TheBarrister (talk) 13:39, 6 March 2008 (UTC)