Bill Enich -Guru Of Love biography

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Bill Enich
and the
Guru of Love Band
(1990-1991)

Musicians:
Bill Enich (vocals, guitar)
Eric Johnson (guitar, keyboards, drums, vocals)
Jason Peer (bass guitar, vocals, programming)
John Galuska (recorder)
Young Arnold (bass guitar, acoustic guitar)

Albums:
Bill Enich Guru of Love (1991)
Bill Enich Home Recordings (unreleased)

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Some bands stay together for years and record a ton of material, while other sometimes might record two or three projects. Still others are just together long enough to get one project down. Bill Enich, who affectionately crowned himself "Guru Of Love," is one of those bands. Discovered by bassist Jason Peer working at a lumber yard in Chicago, the two began putting together material for a recording project. Peer was impressed by Enich's strange behavior and "outsider-artist," Dadaist approach to music. Bill wrote lyrics by strumming on the open strings of his guitar, coming up with absurd rhyme schemes that actually seemed to work somehow --"...cuz when I'm down and I'm feeling around, just gotta pick it up and let it go down..." Enich and Peer recruited Eric Johnson on guitar and John Galuska on recorder to round out the core "Guru of Love" band. The result was one CD where Enich penned all of the lyrics and Peer and Johnson did the musical arrangement. The Guru Of Love CD is pretty funny, naively profound, and at times, a little creepy. After the recording project was finished, SlowBurn Records gave Enich a tape of the sessions and we never saw him again. --Shine on you crazy diamond! If you are out there, drop us a line sometime!

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