![]() ![]() To do this, he enlisted the help of his friend Jeff Kazor from The Crooked Jades and engineer Bruce Kaphan, and together they created an “acoustic wall of sound” effect to emulate the distorted, dreamlike quality of the original album. He was determined to pull apart the original album layer by layer and recreate it in its entirety using mainly traditional bluegrass instruments such as acoustic guitar, mandolin, and fiddle. Feinstein called Loveless “an obsession of mine”. The album, entitled Loveless: Hurts to Love, was an acoustic cover of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. A year later Rabie left the band and Feinstein decided to take some time off to record a solo album. In November 2012 Water Tower was chosen to open for the punk band Against Me! on a tour of the Southeastern US. Against Me! tour and solo work (2012-2013) In 2012 the band changed their name to Water Tower. The Water Tower Bucket Boys recorded and independently released two full-length albums and two EPs, as well as one early album under the name Water Tower String Band. The second half of the name was inspired by the DIY washtub bass, or gutbucket, played by their first bass player. They named the band after the water tower in the woods behind Feinstein's house that served as a gathering place for the local teenagers to hang out and play music. In 2005 guitarist/vocalist Kenny Feinstein formed the band The Water Tower Bucket Boys in Portland, Oregon with his neighbor, Josh Rabie on fiddle. Lead singer/guitarist Feinstein's other credits include playing on and co-producing Rosy Nolan's EP Footprints and Broken Branches with Tim Armstrong from Rancid, playing fiddle in Coffey Anderson's band, and appearing in Anderson's Netflix show Country Ever After. The band itself functions as a collective, with members playing in various side projects. Water Tower is very active in the local bluegrass scene and the band hosts a monthly bluegrass jam event called Hillbilly Hype House. They prefer to book their own shows and tours, and a lot of their time is spent playing for passing cars at freeway off-ramps around Los Angeles. The band has a DIY attitude and many of their albums are self-released. They have opened for and played festivals alongside bands as varied as Against Me!, T.S.O.L., Wanda Jackson, Sarah Shook, and John Craigie. Water Tower is known for playing modern bluegrass music mixed with traditional, old time, and punk rock influences. ![]() A live studio album called Live from Los Angeles is due to come out in 2023. In 2021 they released a limited-edition bootleg album of all new songs called For the Owls. ![]() Joe “Juice” Berglund (bass, fiddle), Tommy Drinkard (banjo), and Jesse Blue Eads (bass, banjo) became the main Water Tower line up with Feinstein in 2020 although Daggatt, Norris, and Selick still occasionally play with the band. The album was co-produced by Don Bolles, the former drummer of the Germs/ 45 Grave, and solo artist Ariel Pink. Fly Around (2020) took seven years to complete and featured guest vocals from former Old Crow Medicine Show member Willie Watson, Bullets & Octane's Gene Louis, and the former singer of Black Flag, Ron Reyes. In 2014 the whole band relocated to Los Angeles, California and continued working on the album while busking on the streets to support themselves. Guitarist Peter Daggatt, bassist Pat Norris, and drummer Harry Selick joined the band later in 2013 and the four-piece started recording Water Tower's first album. Rabie left the band in 2013 and Feinstein spent a year recording and putting out a solo album, an acoustic cover of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless called Loveless: Hurts to Love. They put out one album under the name Water Tower String Band and two albums as The Water Tower Bucket Boys, with various line ups, before changing their name to Water Tower in 2011. The band was originally formed in high school by Kenny Feinstein (guitar, lead vocals) and his neighbor, Josh Rabie (fiddle). Water Tower, formerly known as The Water Tower Bucket Boys and Water Tower String Band, is an American bluegrass, old time, and punk band formed in Portland, Oregon in 2005. The Water Tower Bucket Boys, Water Tower String Band ![]()
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