Tim Lane Seaton Joins Rope Cosmetology!

Friends,

Tim Lane Seaton is now one of us. He was in Peach of Immortality during that foul, late '80s lockstep lurch when AmRep dross was considered edgy and flannel hippie Sabbath coprophagia swelled toward ascendence. As for our music, we were basically invisible. We were still able to scare up 10, 25, sometimes 40 people to our gigs, but otherwise flew about ten inches above the treeline. Our response to having achieved untouchable status was to retrench, dig the fuck in, and record around the clock. Tim devoted three years to the cause, mixing and producing all of our recordings between 1988 and 1991 and laying down some of the most convoluted and forward-thinking bass lines I've ever heard. He was a natural improviser, looping and countering, routing my tape coughing and pause-button splices through the immense tonal roar he effortlessly conjured. And he balanced my more retarded excesses with a relentless pragmatism - we were a good match. After I left Atlanta for Miami in early 1991, Tim closed his studio and moved to Los Angeles where he found well-deserved success riding the then-nascent Internet shockwave... We shared a stage together in April 2008 after not having played together for 17 years, and it was as if we'd never stopped. Very fucking cool... I recently asked if he'd like to take part in the RopeCosm experiment, and he said yes... So, now, we are four.

Best,

TS, for RC