Anton Fier

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  • Born: Cleveland, OH
  • Years Active: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

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Anton Fier, (born June 20, 1956), is an American drummer, composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge (with John Greaves), worked with Pere Ubu, was briefly in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos. The 1978 Pere Ubu EP titled "Datapanik in the Year Zero" was dedicated to Fier.

Fier has collaborated extensively with Bill Laswell and also toured and recorded with Hüsker Dü guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Bob Mould.

Fier also played with bassist Jack Bruce and guitarist Kenji Suzuki on the 1987 album Inazuma Super Session - "Absolute Live!!"

Fier played in the band Locus Solus with John Zorn and Arto Lindsay. They recorded a live album for Zorn's 50th birthday celebration: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3 of the 50th birthday series on Tzadik.

Discography (partial)

Dreamspeed (Avant, 1993)Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud (Island Records, 1995)Dreamspeed/Blindlight 1992–1994 (Tzadik, 2003)

eMusic Features

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The History of the Feelies: Playing Fast, Taking It Slow

By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor

Glenn Mercer and Bill Million put together the band they called the Feelies in the mid-'70s. They were singer/guitarists who'd both started out as bassists, so they thought about everything in terms of rhythm. Their songs were frantically speedy, streamlined and hyperpercussive. They were nerds, and very proud of it. They were not particularly connected to any extant rock scene. They came from the little town of Haledon, New Jersey, and were proud of that,… more »