1519 has been bearing the well-burnt torch of garage rock ‘n roll
in a remote SE DC alley for over a decade. What began as a weekly gathering of neighborhood pickers, strummers, bangers, ranters and screamers has evolved over time into a song-writing collaboration between Ted Coyle, Jon Haberman and Rich Lucas – backed up by veteran DC drummer Mike Magor and former Nog bassist Robert Moore. The rhythm section is accompanied most nights by Russell Sturm on a very un-portable, 1947 Hammond BV organ and Fred Reuss on rustic, over-electrified fiddle and Tom Wall skipping lines on top of the groove with a tenor sax. From time to time, Ed Gilland will slip in a little extemporaneous primal-scream poetry –the texts of which are being assembled for a forthcoming anthology titled, “Edification.”
in a remote SE DC alley for over a decade. What began as a weekly gathering of neighborhood pickers, strummers, bangers, ranters and screamers has evolved over time into a song-writing collaboration between Ted Coyle, Jon Haberman and Rich Lucas – backed up by veteran DC drummer Mike Magor and former Nog bassist Robert Moore. The rhythm section is accompanied most nights by Russell Sturm on a very un-portable, 1947 Hammond BV organ and Fred Reuss on rustic, over-electrified fiddle and Tom Wall skipping lines on top of the groove with a tenor sax. From time to time, Ed Gilland will slip in a little extemporaneous primal-scream poetry –the texts of which are being assembled for a forthcoming anthology titled, “Edification.”