Quartets, chamber music, double bass: American Art's musical world changed drastically after an experiment in amplification went terribly wrong in the 1700s. Born and raised outside of Boston during the revolutionary war, American Art was weened on the classical music of his time. "The frilly flutters of pre-electrified music left me cold. " Art explains. "I always knew there was more passion, bombast and insanity in music." I had to find it!

"I was searching for years for a way to amplify the sound of my double bass.” the time-traveler explains, "It was only after I wrote Ben Franklin for advice that I was able to conduct the experiment that brought me to the future." After rigging wiring directly to his bass, a blast of white hot lightning opens a bizzare time continuum catapulted American Art into the future and into the midst of LESION. There I was in a cemetary playing my bass and Blamo! there I am standing at the graveside of Mr. Pod." Lesion was looking for a new bass player and the timing could not have been better.

American Art plays bass with centuries of skill. He began his apprenticeship on the double bass with Sir Francis Pinkershuft, a virtuoso of uncalcuable skill. Quickly climbing the ladder of proficiency, American Art was soon playing private recitals for the high-brow audiences of better society. "It was not much different than the rock and roll of today actually; take a coach to a manor, drink a bunch of glug, grog, or mead, play your music passionately, then on to sloppy groping in pantries and dressing rooms."

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