Faux Jean

:: Faux Jean is a rock group from Minneapolis, USA. They are led by the visionary songwriter who employs the appellation Faux Jean as his own.

:: The story places a boy named matty on his sun porch in a pair of strange blue trousers contemplating the fin-de-sicle malaise with the sun setting indian summer style twilight of the gods.

:: Neighborhood fixtures, Kinder and Behm, noting the strange blue trousers, commented that the fake denim was becoming of matty; at this moment, he became Faux Jean.

::The next step was to disband his existing group, the spring collection—despite having just spent a load of money and time recording— to the end of creating a new ensemble where Faux Jean could more accurately determine the aesthetic outcome of his vision, which places bikini clad teens on the beach twisting to songs about the reproductive urges/functions of bumble bees.

:: That accomplished, Faux Jean looked around for a band to complete his vision. Perhaps most important on his list was finding a strong female voice to sing the pretty parts he’d eeked out himself on two summers’ worth of 4 track demos. Faux Jean saw this batch of songs and the sounds there found as tantamount to the Faux Jean aesthetic. “So where’d you go Faux, to find the sound?”

:: Imagine Jean Angel, probably circa 96. Faux Jean (then matty) went to the Bryant Lake Bowl to see a Hang Ups-y side project called the Appetizers opening for Ida. Nicole K. was there on stage, singing with the band, lending credence to their versions of ABBA and Queen songs. Covering one ear, Maurice Gibb style, belting out Dancing Queen, batting those goo-goo lashes, opera-trained Nicole—who would later play with Hickey Party and start her own group, THE MEG— won Faux Jean’s aesthetic heart and her millennial transformation into Jean Angel can only be seen as inevitable at this point.

:: Imagine Grinder, probably circa 93. matty’s in his new pad in Uptown, playing his 12 string ric through a crappy practice amp on the sun porch. When he stops playing, he hears what sounds like someone thrashing a drum kit coming from his basement. He investigates; the new neighbors greet each other and say “we should play sometime.” Grinder and Faux Jean proceed to waste a full year jamming endlessly on meaningless surf drivel. The subsequent years are given some meaning as they manage to slog it out through several bands (Whippoorwill, Steel Shank, Spring Collection). In addition to his talent for avoiding hard, physical labor, Grinder has a gift for the drums and that’s what makes him essential to the Faux Jean aesthetic.

:: Imagine Jean D’ax, I’m thinking 98. Grinder and matty play an early pop for charity show at the Foxfire with the Plastic Constellations and Chromaphase. Chromaphase takes the stage and all one can really see are walls of keyboards and what appears to be a very happy 18 or 19 year-old-kid smiling from behind said keys. That’s Dax, who had the presence of mind to purchase a spring collection AQUARIUS disc at the show and learn the songs before calling and asking to be in the band. Given that his alternative was to sell all of his gear in digust at the demise of Chromaphase, we are glad that fate intervened and made right the path for Dax.

:: Imagine Faux Wayne, early 2000. Cody Wayne rolls in from Texas so as to experience the bitter cold of the northern life first hand. Coming across the proto-Faux Jean posse at a cold Mallman show at the 400 Bar, the rest of the year is spent getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Turns out the kid played bass with the drips in Texas and let it be known that the Faux Jean aesthetic seemed incomplete without the involvement of Faux Wayne.::

::Fallen from the sky like a star-man, Gene Wire (Al Weiers) woke up on stage with the Odd and Short Fuses before fusing his aesthetic with that of the fake denim. Les Paul+Marshall +Gene Wire=rock and roll over into the New Fidelity with bells and whistles and enough thunder to keep the boat floating--men women and children are welcome.::

:: Logic and fate conspire to make the band Faux Jean complete.::