It would have meant a huge stylistic shift, and the Muses didn't actually exist (laughs). But in the meantime, while concentrating on solo acoustic material, I realized that I had a collection of songs that were not in any way solo acoustic, were not even appropriate for the Muses. We decided that was worth it because we love playing together. So we would just tell fans what city we were gonna be in and meet them there. We just weren't on the road or in the studio because we couldn't afford it. The Muses can no longer be a working entity, meaning a band that can afford to be in the studio and promote recordings with extensive live dates, so we've become a band that plays whenever we can pull it off. How and why did 50 Foot Wave come together? Junkmedia recently spoke with Hersh and her manager/husband, Billy O'Connell, about the fate of the Muses, her new band and its attempt to circumvent the music industry, life on the road, Hersh's desire to realize the June Cleaver ethic and much more. Hersh released six mostly acoustic solo discs before putting together 50 Foot Wave to explore her punk rock side. Throwing Muses were a staple of college radio from the late '80s through the mid-'90s, but the band broke up in 1997 because they couldn't keep afloat financially. HershÃs music can rage and roar, or it can hypnotize with surprising arrangements and wonderfully inventive guitar playing. First as front woman for Throwing Muses, then as a solo artist and now as the leader of 50 Foot Wave, Hersh has issued nearly 20 albums filled with lyrics that are by turns beautiful, troubling, funny and confusing, but always clever. Over the past 20 years, Kristin Hersh has established herself as one of the premier songwriters and performers of her generation.
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