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Trauma Center

Toby Kienle | Matt Mitchell | Joe Kilminster

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1990 - ASU Pub	1990 - ASU Pub	1990 - ASU Pub

A breif history of Trauma Center by Matt Mitchell

Toby Kienle and Matt Mitchell remained close friends throughout the Model Testing scheme. The two still shared an apartment and delved deeper into the nastier industrial sound (SkinnyPuppy/Ministry) and terrifying noises (Psychick TV/Einsturzende Neubauten).

Every Tuesday and Thursday they would share a case of Glacier Bay and play around with sequenced beats, warped movie dialogue and distorted guitar. With a few compositions down, all they needed now was a frontman. Toby and Matt tried to recruit Matt Bryan, but he rarely showed up for practice. Toby then discovered Joe Kilminster in the art classes of Wey Hall - all because he "looked cool". Joe developed some lyrics to go with the gut-churning sound.

Trauma Center got their first and only gig by a scam. Knowing that the APPS Council would never understand the whole performance, TC submitted a lesser known song from an underground industrial band, ran it through a distortion pedal and pawned it off it as their own. The show consisted of pieced together medical video, violent images, blood and rust. The Pub never knew what hit it -and TC was banned from ever playing there again.

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