biography

"After the death of Kurt Cobain," explains lead singer Fritz Nelson, "a friend of ours looked up Nirvana in the dictionary. On the same page was a fourteenth century phrase defined as a 'short lived sensation'. Applicable to many orgasmic situations, I thought it was extraordinarily appropriate for the band!"

Thus, Nine Days' Wonder was born. From the very beginning, Detroit's latest musical offspring have sought to challenge themselves and through constant composing and relentless fine tuning, the quartet have skillfully crafted an unstoppable machine. Like any self-respecting songwriter of merit, Fritz does not want his lyrics to feed the listeners' inherent sponge too much, yet behind the lyrics of their luminous debut album one cannot help but perceive a recurring theme. "We purposely envelop some meaningful lyrics in the midst of our songs. In a way, we're trying to become attuned with reality and touch our audiences. These days it seems that only the Jewels or the Morisettes are writing anything of substance. Not the stuff your average guy is going to listen to and we'd like to change that."

Born from the ashes of a former garage band, both Fritz and lead guitarist, Dave Marschke found their paths crossing regularly in the home of Motown. So much so that they tried writing together once again. "In our prior band," continues Fritz, "we never were never able to play the kind of aggressive music we liked due to the normal compromises you make with six people. Dave has this amazing ability to lay down a riff that will move me and provoke all kinds of imagery inside my head."

As their creative juices began to overflow, they soon realized that the need for musical accompaniment was at hand.
Enlisting the services of bassist Gary Tsiang and drummer Bruce Fuhrman, Nine Days' Wonder finally honed their collective talents to the point they find themselves today. "Playing in a band has never really seemed like work, even when I've done it full time," explains Bruce. "It gives me a completely different type of satisfaction than any other job I've had."

With musical influences culled from Alice In Chains, S.T.P and The Cure on through Front 242 and even Stevie Ray Vaughn, the seeds sown for this album ooze both patience and confidence. "Making this record was a discovery process for all of us," Fritz recounts, "and it's given everyone in the band opportunity to be extremely creative."

The breath of material on Nine Days' Wonder is truly astonishing. Ranging from questioning the values of a generation and men who worship women from afar to the puritanical and hypocritical values that permeate our everyday life, each and every track pulses with vibrance.

With music being our most important form of communication, crossing boundaries and affecting people's lives daily, it seems that life imitating reality is a sound ready to be heard. "The People who will truly understand what we are about," explains Fritz, "are those people who have weathered some adversity in life of who question what is generally accepted by society. Our music is not the typical mental-candy fluff that is so popular on the radio today."

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