
	Where results make sense

Topic: Clint Conley

	Mission of Burma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer.
		While in early years Burma's audience was limited, today Mission of Burma is widely acknowledged as one of the first groups to achieve the potential of modern alternative/independent rock, fusing punk and experimental music into some of the most influential music to come out of the American punk/no wave scene.
		They took their name from a "Mission of Burma" plaque Conley saw on a New York City diplomatic building; he thought the phrase had a "sort of murky and disturbing" quality (Azzerad, 97).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mission_of_Burma (1396 words)

	Splendid: Features: Consonant
		Clint Conley: Yeah, he was the chief songwriter and singer for Bedhead, which morphed into The New Year, but of course, he plays guitar in that band and plays drums in mine.
		Clint Conley: We'd been approached several times over the years and I always said no, but it was proposed about two years ago, and I was writing music at the time and feeling very...you know, that that part of me was back.
		Clint Conley: Yeah, it varies, but in general, I write a melody and chords, and I have these notebooks filled with her poems and I just kind of forage around until I catch a line.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/consonant (3915 words)

	Music \| Consonant come of age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clint Conley is of medium height and build, with a dark complexion, heavy eyes, and hair that has only just begun to thin.
		Conley likes to say that after Burma he gave up music completely, and though he wrote next to nothing over the course of almost two decades, his retreat from music never fully amounted to an unconditional surrender.
		(Although Conley fiddled with the odd line, Anderson’s poems are reproduced in the disc’s liner notes in their original mesostic form, the John Cage scheme by which an asymmetrical horizontal text is developed around a vertical word or phrase.) And the collaboration freed up Conley to write a set of superb lyrics on his own.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/cellars/documents/02266736.htm (1734 words)

	Interview with Clint Conley of Mission Of Burma/Consonant
		Clint Conley is probably best known as the bassist for critically acclaimed (but massively underappreciated) band Mission Of Burma.
		Clint: I don’t know-it was back in the late 60’s and we were just picking up guitars and playing “Louie Louie” and “Gloria” and Hendrix.
		Clint: I think all of us are happy with the album “VS” as opposed to the E.P. “Signals Calls And Marches”.
	earcandy_mag.tripod.com /clintconley.htm (2774 words)

	Once More, With Feeling
		Conley then started digging through tapes of fragments he'd recorded in the year after Burma's breakup, songs he'd had trouble finishing because of his ambivalence about where to go next.
		Conley, a TV producer and father of two, found himself rising as early as 2 a.m.
		Conley mentions several times that he has "a full life" and has no plans to take Consonant on the road for more than the occasional long weekend.
	citypaper.net /articles/2002-05-09/music.shtml (753 words)

	Consonant - s/t (Fenway)
		Conley fell off the proverbial bicycle 19 years ago, or, rather, the bicycle was taken away when Burma guitarist Roger Miller's severe case of tinnitus led to the band's all too early dismantling.
		The natural assumption is that Conley will get back on that rusty old bike and wobble around, looking slightly foolish but doing enough right to give a warm and fuzzy tingle to those looking to recall the good old days when they first heard Burma.
		Conley has managed not just to avoid making a fool of himself but to reestablish his mastering of the craft of punk songwriting.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2002/consonant.shtml (621 words)

	Music \| Et tu, punk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clint Conley, Hilken Mancini, and the boys in the Explosion represent a relatively broad definition of how punk has manifested itself in and around the local scene.
		Conley’s seminal post-punk alma mater, Mission of Burma, fit the description or not, depending on where you stand.
		Conley, who remembers high-school visits to Max’s Kansas City in the mid ’70s, recalls a punk that " was transformative, totally and completely, like aliens had landed on the earth.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/cellars/documents/02766176.htm (1837 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Or maybe Conley looked like a guy just waking up from a dream, a longish one in which he gave up music, got married, raised children and had a career as a tv producer.
		Conley has teamed up with Chris Brokaw (formerly of Come, Codeine and Steve Wynn), Matt Kadane (Bedhead) and Winston Braman (Fuzzy), and the album is produced by Bob Weston (Shellac).
		Whether the experience is Conley’s, Anderson’s or both, I don’t think it could have come from a precocious and jaded young rocker.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=6511 (657 words)

	Henry Conley 1943-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Henry Conley, former executive director of the National Cutting Horse Association, died Wednesday, April 25 in Euless, Texas at the age of 58.
		Conley had served as executive director of NCHA from 1994 until last July when he took a job as publisher of The Business Press, a weekly business journal in Fort Worth, Texas.
		Conley is survived by his wife, Dixie Conley of Euless; sons, Bill Conley and his wife, Julie, of Denver, Colo., Kelly Conley of Bedford, Clint Conley of Euless; daughter, Christy Conley of Euless; mother, Susie Conley; brothers, Bill Conley and Pat Conley; and sisters, Ellen MaGahan and Sharon Pugh, all of Pensacola, Fla.
	www.nchacutting.com /news/conley.htm (236 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Mission restored, Clint Conley reaches for his muse again
		Conley continued to write songs for a year after Burma broke up before the urge to make music began to wither.
		Conley was sitting in with the Peer Group, Burma drummer Peter Prescott's band, which was opening for Shellac at the Knitting Factory in New York.
		Perhaps not quite so much for Conley's wife, Deborah, a therapist, who was perplexed by the frantic pace at which her TV-producer spouse was producing ferocious rock songs.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2003/08/17/mission_restored_clint_conley_reaches_for_his_muse_again?mode=PF (1164 words)

	Mission Of Burma : Clint Conley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clint Conley is the bassist for Mission of Burma.
		Clint is a staff producer for the television show Chronicle on Boston's local ABC affiliate.
		Clint produced Yo La Tengo's first album, Ride The Tiger.
	www.obliterati.net /tiki-index.php?page=Clint+Conley (111 words)

	Hearing Loss News and Articles: Burma's mission, 20 years later
		Clint Conley, bassist and vocalist for ’80s underground heroes Mission of Burma, was late for our phone interview.
		Conley is a producer at ABC affiliate WCVB in Boston and —, despite mounting one of the more successful band reunion efforts of recent years —, he has no plans to quit his day job.
		Conley, guitarist and vocalist Roger Miller, drummer Peter Prescott and tape manipulator Martin Swope formed Burma in 1980, recording their own brand of sonically rich, angst-filled post-punk.
	www.4hearingloss.com /archives/2006/02/burmas_mission.html (977 words)

	Consonant: Love and Affliction: Pitchfork Record Review
		Not much has changed on the band's second release: in fact, as satisfying as it is, it's hard not to judge it side-by-side with their debut.
		Conley has kept the band together-- Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine) on the other guitar, Winston Braman (Fuzzy) on bass, and Matt Kadane (Bedhead, The New Year) on drums fill out what amounts to an indie rock all-star quartet, with none of the showcasing that could imply.
		Conley can sound open and damaged, not unlike Robert Wyatt, but on "Cry" I could picture him emulating the fierce resistance of Kristin Hersh; the lyrics, mostly written by Holly Anderson, bring in an even more feminine tone.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/16300/Consonant_Love_and_Affliction (531 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| Obliterate... Reiterate: Mission of Burma's Exhilarating Return
		And, of course, there is footage of the show itself, where, true to form, Conley, Miller and drummer Peter Prescott can hardly contain their grins or restrain their joy at playing those songs, as loud as possible, to a crowd of 5,500 Brazilians.
		In the interim, Conley had rediscovered music; the dam had burst, and after 20 years, he was writing the songs that led to the first Consonant album.
		Conley, who is as modest and self-deprecating as a rock star can be, went to the opening with his wife and daughter (both of whom appear in it), expecting to suffer paroxysms of embarrassment and ending up liking the film.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/mission-of-burma-060605.shtml (2204 words)

	EQ Magazine - Then & Now: Mission of Burma
		Clint Conley: We were going for the Goldilocks approach: The 45 was overproduced, the Signals EP was underproduced.
		Rick Harte states that Conley was using a Sunn setup for his bass rig, but to quote Conley: “I hope I wasn’t using that hideous fuzzy Ampeg solid-state thing that I used live.
		And Clint was one of the Soundelux condenser mics.
	www.eqmag.com /story.asp?sectioncode=36&storycode=9388 (3131 words)

	Mission of Burma > Doug Powell > Descendants > Who's Not Forgotten > The Living End > Reviews > ...
		Clint Conley then follows with "Prepared", which is perhaps the loveliest song ever waxed by Mission Of Burma.
		When he and Conley sing the chorus, "Now I live inside the circle", you realize this song is a circular post-punk gallop.
		While Miller, Conley and Prescott are all talented leading their own bands, they share a vision that is enhanced when they play with each other.
	www.fufkin.com /columns/bennett/bennett_rev_04_04.htm (4024 words)

	* Dusted Features [ Mission: Improbable - An interview with Mission of Burma ] * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clint Conley can’t really say why Mission of Burma, the post-punk band he formed in Boston in 1979 along with Peter Prescott, Roger Miller, and Martin Swope, has enjoyed such a renaissance in the last few years.
		Conley grew up in Connecticut, “besotted with the new punk energies,” while at the same time listening to a lot of free jazz.
		When I mentioned to Conley that a 2002 Mission of Burma performance in Chicago seemed to be split between college kids and “original fans,” he replied that in Chicago, in the early ‘80s, there were rarely more than a handful of people at their shows.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /features/251 (1027 words)

	Punknews.org \| Consonant - Love and Affliction (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clint Conley — the name didn’t ring a bell when I read it.
		So, as I cannot compare Conley’s new band to his old band I have never heard, I will have to use other methods.
		Conley has proven to be clear of that writer’s block funk he was in, and if anything, Consonant has made me want to study some rock history and check out his old band.
	www.punknews.org /print.php?op=review&id=3106 (358 words)

	Consonant - Love And Affliction: Silent Uproar
		Conley is now a father and has been almost 20 years removed from performing with a band, so the subject matter he writes about now makes Love And Affliction like a rebirth for Conley.
		You would never expected Conley to ever sing something like "I rush to beat the school bus / I can't stand another hour / Without their precious smiles" in any of his previous efforts.
		Mission Of Burma has since reformed and are preparing a new album and tour as I write this; I just hope Conley doesn't shelve the Consonant project totally, as this is a perfect compliment to the work he did with Burma.
	www.silentuproar.com /showreview.php?ID=668&fromarchive=yes (277 words)

	Consonant - Love and Affliction (Fenway)
		Last year, Clint Conley, bassist of Mission of Burma, came out of a near 20 year retirement to play some reunion dates and form a new band, Consonant, with Chris Brokaw and Matt Kadane.
		It was a pleasant surprise, then, that the album was so powerful: a straight-forward rock album drawing out the Kinks influence from Burma's sound and giving the songs resonance with their emotionally raw lyrics.
		While Conley's handful of Mission of Burma reunion dates turn into more of an actual continuation of the band, Consonant also feels more and more like a band.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2003/consonant2.shtml (492 words)

	Consonant, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		After the breakup of Mission of Burma in 1983, Clint Conley had for the most part retired from music; outside of producing Yo La Tengo's debut album, practically nothing musical was heard from him as he devoted himself to his new career as a producer for a local Boston television station.
		In 2001, however, Conley and his old Burma bandmates begin kicking around the idea of playing a few reunion shows and at the same time, Conley began writing new songs with longtime friend Holly Anderson contributing to the lyrics.
		Conley recruited a lineup of veterans of some of Boston's best-known bands, including Chris Brokaw (formerly of Come and Codeine) on guitar, Matt Kadane (ex-Silkworm and Bedhead) on drums, and Winston Braman (from Fuzzy and the Count-Me-Outs) on bass; Conley, who'd played bass with Mission of Burma, switched to guitar for Consonant.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11486/11486567.html (313 words)

	Agony Shorthand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clint Conley: Burma always leaned in the direction of hi-speed confusion, and that aspect of hard core was a total rush.
		Clint Conley: The gig that stands out was in Hollywood, playing with the Kennedys and Circle Jerks in '82.
		Clint Conley: We were often selected to open for the latest Brit band -- Go4, the Cure, Psych Furs, etc. The club owners musta thought we sounded Limey.
	agonyshorthand.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_agonyshorthand_archive.html (6849 words)

	LA Weekly - Play It Loud, Real Real Loud
		Even in their heyday, Conley recalls, "We were often not understood, particularly by new audiences.
		Clint and I played a show with Peter in the Peer Group, and that had an effect.
		The recently released debut by Consonant (Fenway Recordings), Conley's first new project in ages, is a shockingly fresh collection of songs "about the exchange of bodily fluids," co-written with poet Holly Anderson, and fleshed out by Come's Chris Brokaw and Bedhead's Matt Kadane.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/02/39/music-bruno.php (1060 words)

	Splendid: Features: Mission of Burma
		When Clint brought in that song ("Prepared"), I just thought it was beautiful.
		But at the same time, he was recording a record for Clint, and I think he had played in one of Roger's bands -- trumpet or something.
		Splendid: I talked to Clint a few months ago, and I used the phrase "massively influential" and he just objected all over the place.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/mob (3582 words)

	A Clint Conley cameo in 'History of Punk Rock' class - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Conley's visit came on the heels of Saturday's Somerville Theatre premiere of "Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story," a documentary on the Boston-based band's original run, breakup and reunion that was screened as part of the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
		Conley also told Hewlett that a ways back, he'd had a girlfriend who was a Tufts student, and had sat in on several of her classes with renowned English Professor and novelist Jay Cantor.
		For Conley's visit to Tufts yesterday, though, the tables were turned: He was the main attraction.
	www.tuftsdaily.com /media/storage/paper856/news/2006/04/27/Arts/A.Clint.Conley.Cameo.In.history.Of.Punk.Rock.Class-1879874.shtml?norewrite200605161548&sourcedomain=www.tuftsdaily.com (502 words)

	Mission of Burma - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		With Prescott and Conley furiously bashing in support, the band's sound was extremely physical (ask anyone who saw them live) to the point of leaving the audience feeling slightly bruised, battered, but extremely happy.
		After releasing an explosive single ("Academy Fight Song," still one of punk rock's greatest songs) on Boston's then-hippest indie label, Ace of Hearts, Burma released two excellent records in just over a year: the Signals, Calls and Marches EP and their only full-length studio album, Vs.
		Clint Conley produced the first Yo La Tengo record and then left the music business.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,468876,00.html (700 words)

	Letter to the Editor \| Kudos for yesterday's Clint Conley coverage - Editorial
		Conley's Tufts visit was very informative and let anyone not fortunate enough to attend this class in on Mission of Burma: an exciting Boston phenomenon.
		Conley made notable contributions to the development of punk rock in general and greatly enriched the history of important music coming out of Boston in specific.
		I was very lucky to be invited as a guest to this particular class, which left me with a high regard for all of the students and faculty I encountered at Tufts.
	www.tuftsdaily.com /news/2006/04/28/Editorial/Letter.To.The.Editor.Kudos.For.Yesterdays.Clint.Conley.Coverage-1881321.shtml (251 words)

	Boston Rock Storybook - Mission of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clint Conley has laid pretty low since Burma, leaving music behind to work producing television segments for Channel 5's Chronicle news magazine.
		The pioneering blend of avant-rock noise and tense melodicism that Conley, guitarist Roger Miller, drummer Peter Prescott, and tape-loop manipulator Martin Swope brought to the post-punk frontier remains as bracing today as it was almost two decades ago.
		You can hear what Conley's talking about on The Horrible Truth About Burma, which was recorded during the group's farewell 1983 tour and originally released in 1985 on Ace of Hearts Records.
	www.rockinboston.com /moburma.htm (3506 words)

	No Ripcord Album Review - Mission of Burma - "ONoffON" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ONoffON was not recorded with royalty payments in mind, nor was it recorded for fun; Roger Miller, Peter Prescott and Clint Conley stepped into the studio because they felt they had something of worth to document.
		Clint Conley’s five and Peter Prescott’s three tracks punctuate his offerings superbly, whether offering a change of pace (as in Conley’s string-drenched ballad Prepared), a spot of nostalgia (the dreamy What We Really Were) or simply more of the same (Prescott’s The Enthusiast).
		And if side A belongs to Miller’s The Setup, Conley’s country-tinged Nicotine Bomb is without a doubt the highlight of side B. With the exception of perhaps Prepared, it’s ONoffON poppiest moment, and perhaps the band’s finest straight-up rocker since That’s When I Reach For My Revolver.
	www.noripcord.com /reviews/M/missionofburmaalbum.html (916 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)