In
1987 Jonny Cohen founded The
Love Machine in wafter moving into a Silver Spring, MD group
house. Inspired by the many basement jam sessions (including other
Teenbeat artists Unrest and Butch Willis) that happened in the
house, Jonny began to write his own songs and put together "Johnny
Cohen's Love Machine."
Though housemate Root Boy Slim declared Love Machine to be "the
worst band I've ever heard," Teenbeat 's Mark Robinson invited
Jonny to open for his band Unrest on a WMUC live radio show after
hearing an accappela version of the Karen Carpenter inspired "I'm
not an anorexic" [it should be noted that the correct term
in this case would be Anoretic — read Marya Hornbacher's
excellent autobiography
on the subject].
Soon after, in 1989, Jonny Cohen recorded and released through
Teenbeat Records, Love Machine (TB 39), and has been
a mainstay of the label ever since.
In 1993, Jonny Cohen recorded two songs for Simple Machine's
Working Holiday series. The songs were released on the April edition
of the series with labelmates Eggs.
Upon completion of the series, a live performance was performed
at the Black Cat in Washington DC over three days (January 7-9,
1994) and on one of theose nights Jonny Cohen performed "Rubberman
off of his CD release of Getting Our Heads Back Togther
(TB 109). The track was recorded by either Bob Weston, Geoff Turner
or Charles Bennington. This CD was a mail-order only bonus CD
for the Working Holiday CD compilation.
More recently, Jonny lent his talents to the New York based Burnside
Project and their critically acclaimed album The Networks,
The Circuits, The Streams, The Harmonies (Bar-None 138) which
was nominated by director Cameron Crowe for the
2003 shortlist.
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