Hall of Genius 8/27/02

The following people are all featured on the upcoming MacArthur CD release (tentatively titled "White Ape Offers Fruit").

Arthur Winer Founding member of MacArthur. Excellent cook. Inventor of the Thumperator microphone and the Cabinet of Dr. Calimari. Too humble to call himself a genius. Day job: recording and mastering engineer/owner of Canaveral Skies Music. Plays: anything that produces soundwaves, displaces electrons, or creates 1s and 0s.

Ross Bonadonna Talkative genius. Day job: audio engineer/owner Wombat Recording, Inc. Also plays with Pachyderm Party, a wacky jazz-ish improv quartet. Plays: bass for your face.

Andrew Innes Talent personified. He's somewhat of a band-whore (he's in at least five: Champale, Anchor Tattoo, Clem Snide...), but wouldn't you be too if you were in such demand? He also bakes world-reknowned pies. This guy's a genius. Day job: banking tycoon. Plays: sax, harmonica, vocals, and acoustic Theremin (AKA, saw).

Matthew Macgillivray Quiet, brooding, inquisitive genius. Voted "Best Looking" member of MacArthur by some women I asked. Day job: architect. Plays: drums and vocals.

Reed Hays Musical genius. Day job: musical genius. Owns a bright yellow leather sofa and a cello forged in outer space. Plays: cello.

Darby Saxbe Genius with a Ratt pedal. Does the mere fact of her ownership of a Ratt pedal entitle her to genius status? Or is it the fact that she is intelligent enough to have purchased said pedal? Which came first, the Ratt or the Ratt's egg? Brain-twisting musings aside, Darby lends her genius & vocals to MacArthur. She also plays with The Winter Olympics. Day job: battle-scarred dot commer.

Caroline Schutz Genius on loan from Folksongs for the Afterlife. Day job: yes, but she would rather be doing music, damn the work-a-day world to Hell. Plays: vocals.

Michael Tritter Day job: spinner of webs. Night job: Duke Illington. Also: genius. Plays: keyboards.