Ants Invasion
One of my bands is Ants Invasion. It’s a dead-on tribute to Adam and the Ants. I was a huge fan of that band in the 80s and saw them perform live. It’s been a lot of fun to learn these guitar parts and perform the music live. And my fellow musicians in this band are a pleasure to work with. They’ve become some of my closest friends, and we’ve had a lot of great adventures together over the years.
In Ants Invasion we do our best to recreate the studio versions of the original songs. For me, this has involved creating painstakingly detailed transcriptions of the multi-tracked guitar parts and then condensing them into something that I can perform on stage. Most of the time I manage to cover two of the parts simultaneously, which is usually enough to recreate the original sound.
As I was working on my transcriptions of the guitar parts, I was fortunate to begin an ongoing email dialog with the Ants guitarist Marco Perroni. He is a source of humor and inspiration. It’s been very satisfying to recreate his guitar parts, and in doing so I’ve developed an appreciation for some of the music that inspired Marco’s playing, such as Gene Vincent. Good stuff all around. One of our goals in Ants Invasion is to tour the UK. We’d love to perform for * and with * the original Ants who inspired us to dress like pirates and got us to hear the insect prayer.