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New York City (1985 – 1992)

Bongwater was an band from New York City, formed in 1985 and dissolved in 1992. The group was founded by Ann Magnuson and Kramer (who was also the founder of the now defunct Shimmy Disc record label). Magnuson caught Kramer’s eye when he saw her perform in the all girl band Pulsallama. Bongwater also featured Shimmy alumni drummer Dave Licht and guitarists Dave Rick who went on to play with Shimmy Disc’s anchor band King Missile for a short time and later helped Ann Magnuson in producing and playing guitar on her first solo album called The Luv Show in 1996. Their plan to form a new group called Magenta Rush never came to fruition.

Earlier recordings consisted of a few -era cover songs. At the time of the release of their album Breaking No New Ground, Rolling Stone compared them to Jefferson Airplane mainly due to their cover of Moody Blues signature song Ride My See-Saw as well as their cover of the Carole King composed song - made famous by the MONKEES called The Porpoise Song. The ambitious duo also put their signature on Led Zeppelin songs like Dazed and Confused, sung in Mandarin and re-named Dazed and Chinese, as well as a more conventional cover of Zeppelin’s Four Sticks. The band’s style ultimately evolved into a more poppy, approach which according to Kramer, is why their album The Big Sell Out was named as such. The album still retained some of the band’s earlier edge as well as retaining the surreal and wicked, often self-deprecating wit which had distinguished the group’s earlier releases. Magnuson’s performance art or spoken word “cut up’s” (often taken from her dream journal excerpts) would become a integral part of Bongwater’s sound.
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