Purple Strange

PURPLE STRANGE are made up of a few familiar names. While wandering through France a few years ago, Jared Stroud wrote a bunch of songs about rivers, fake forests and honey-bowl lepers, but he didn't have a band. He turned to drummer friend Matt Vandenberghe for help recording his songs. Kurt Danielson was asked to play bass, and he asked his friend Ron "Nine" Rudzitis to play guitar. Jack Endino was brought in to engineer, and he ended up playing guitar as well. Suddenly Stroud had a band. They wrote more songs. One night in the studio when the lights went out during rehearsal, they discovered that their amplifiers were glowing with a violet aura, even though there was no electricity. They dubbed the phenomenon Purple Strange.