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Tone Set was a Tempe, Arizona band that existed from circa 1981 to 1983. It consisted of Galen Herod and Greg Horn. They met while working for KAET, a Public Broadcasting station in Tempe.
Their early sound was ostensibly synthetic, mixing very ‘clean’ synthesizer sounds with tapes. This was the sound of their first release, a 1982 cassette called “Cal’s Ranch”. It almost completely lacked vocals (the only exception was a line in “Wigglin Around In Middletown”). The tape portions were primarily pieces of dialogue from various recordings. “(Predictions) uses the dialogue from a prime-time local news broadcoast (with anchorman Bill Close) that some nut with a gun took over in, I believe, the fall of ‘81 … really surreal stuff.”(Dan Bailey) Other pieces were of a more lighthearted nature, like “Time Travellers”, which used an extended recording of dialogue from “Rocky and Bullwinkle”. The tape was recorded at “The Center for Advanced Studies,” a house were both band members lived, and released by Zia Records in Tempe, AZ.
In 1982, Tone Set contributed the track “Out, Out, Out” to Placebo Record’s “Amuck” compilation (PLA-103 A&B). Galen Herod, as Happy People, contributed “Happy People” to this compilation.
Their early sound was ostensibly synthetic, mixing very ‘clean’ synthesizer sounds with tapes. This was the sound of their first release, a 1982 cassette called “Cal’s Ranch”. It almost completely lacked vocals (the only exception was a line in “Wigglin Around In Middletown”). The tape portions were primarily pieces of dialogue from various recordings. “(Predictions) uses the dialogue from a prime-time local news broadcoast (with anchorman Bill Close) that some nut with a gun took over in, I believe, the fall of ‘81 … really surreal stuff.”(Dan Bailey) Other pieces were of a more lighthearted nature, like “Time Travellers”, which used an extended recording of dialogue from “Rocky and Bullwinkle”. The tape was recorded at “The Center for Advanced Studies,” a house were both band members lived, and released by Zia Records in Tempe, AZ.
In 1982, Tone Set contributed the track “Out, Out, Out” to Placebo Record’s “Amuck” compilation (PLA-103 A&B). Galen Herod, as Happy People, contributed “Happy People” to this compilation.
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