It's already known that many of these bands were dropped from their record companies. One such band was Seduce (formerly from Detroit, MI - lookup www.MotorCityRock.com/seduce/seduce.html). I worked for a company called Electro Scientific Industries (formerly - Palomar Systems located in Escondido, CA) from October 1993 to July of 1998. Sometime during the middle to end of this employment, Chuck Burns the drummer for Seduce, going by the name of Aaron Bacon, was employed in our materials handling stockroom for our machinist department, cutting material for the machinists. At the time he lived in a really nice double-wide mobile home with his lovely wife and Naval Academy ready stepson, situated in a really peaceful and nice looking mobile home park in Escondido, CA. Later he changed job positions to our parts stock room and then into the engineering drafting department taking digital pictures of our parts and subassemblies for assembly drawings (picture form). We had a lay-off the end of July 1998 and Chuck later found a similar job to the one he formerly held for ESI working for a company called Deutsche located in Oceanside, CA making more money than what he did when working for ESI. I had been to his house before on a couple of ocassions to play Dungeons and Dragons. One of those ocassions Mark Andrews (going by the name of Chris) joined in with us. He came in with his head buzzed not looking like his album photos. I had once asked Chuck to jam with him at his home and he said, "sure." I went over and Mark was there. Later Dave Black shows up and I tell these guys that I'm no good on guitar, that the only thing I knew how to play was a 12 bar blues shuffle in the key of E. I get to playing my guitar and Chuck comes in on the drums doing fine. Mark Andrews is doing good on the bass. So the three of us are doing okay. But, Dave Black is having a difficult time finding something to play with us. He's struggling to find the right key, the right resolve....but he can't do it. For something short of my saying that he was terrible, I told Dave that he needed to play the E minor penatonic scale or the E minor blues scale (5 and 6 note scale patterns respectively). Dave still couldn't get it together. Later....for some unknown reason....I blurted out, "you guys suck!" Insert foot into mouth! No way to apologize! No way to make ammends! Ejected from the club! But, the truth about these guys, they were good for the time that they had doing what a lot of other bands were already doing. They probably could play the 12 bar blues shuffle in the key of E if they read it from guitar tablature. But they really couldn't do anything on there own at least not from the stand point of there reliance on what the music industry standard already had accomplished at that time. But music changes so often and is fickle with its facial masks. It changes too often and too soon. These guys were good at doing what they did, but they came too late to establish themselves as pioneers of the sound and genre.
P.S. This was 2 weeks ago (now 09/29/2007). I have a friend that lives in south Houston, TX. He's a guitar player as well. He told me that he was at Guitar Center there in Houston listening to a kid trying to play one of their songs, but having a difficult time doing so. Then all of a sudden David Black comes up to this kid, picks up a guitar, sits down, plugs in and starts playing the song showing the kid how to play it.
So, I guess Seduce still does stuff publicly. Wow!
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