six degrees

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When i was a kid, i heard `Til Tuesday's(0) "Voices Carry" on the radio. That led me to Aimee Mann's(1) first solo CD, Whatever, when i was in college, which was put out by Imago. I got an Imago sampler, The Imago Traveling Road Show(2), which included a couple of songs by Orangutang(3), a Boston band. I really dug them, so i searched high and low for their EP and LP, and once i had those, i scoured the Web to see what those guys were doing nowadays. I then ran into the fact that Chris Dyas (guitar, vocals) and Todd Perlmutter (drums) were working with Blue Man Group(4) on their first music CD, Audio. Until that moment, i thought BMG was just some sort of Intel gimmick. I bought Audio, loved it, and went to their show in Las Vegas at the Luxor. They released their second CD, The Complex, last week, and featured on it is their male vocalist from their Area:2 tour, Peter Moore, whose band, Count Zero(5), includes as bassist a certain Bernard Georges, who was Throwing Muses'(6) longtime roadie and latter-day (and current) bassist.