Jack Grisham and the Life Undone is a new project by Jack Grisham and Lars Triesch.
Grisham is known as the frontman of TSOL and later The Joykiller. Active for over four decades—in literature, film work, and most importantly independent music—with more than 70 million streams and over 2,000 live shows under his belt. Grisham remains a constant figure in and beyond the American punk scene.
Triesch out of the German ’90s punk and hardcore scene, later moving into indie with his band Profession Reporter.
So how did these two end up making one of the coolest alternative rock records in recent years?
For the last 15 years, Lars has been running a store for vintage furniture and design in Berlin.
Lars is friends with Photographer Edward Colver, who is friends with Jack, who were together at the Punk Rock Museum.
Lars and Grisham started chatting it up, and somehow a “we should make a record” statement got tossed out. Jack swears it wasn’t him, because he’d recently “walked” away again from what Hunter S. Thompson called “...a business that is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.”
Joined by Trevor Lucca—a guitarist known for his onstage work with Dick Dale and T.S.O.L.—guided by the production team of Kurt Ebelhäuser and Michel Wern.
Additional vocal and keyboard recordings were done in Los Angeles at Kitten Robot Studios, engineered by Paul Roessler.
Enjoy.
