On November 25, 2006, Jeff Tweedy spoke out to the audience at the Auditorium Theatre: "tomorrow I want you to go start a rock band.... call it Torpor." So Jake Boyle, Peter Litin, Austin Fisher, and Colin Drozdoff. The quartet were soon joined by Jeremy Jacobson, fresh off returning from his stint as Illinois Senator Richard Durbin's coffee boy. The band shot off like a rocket, playing their first show in March of 2007, only to fall into disrepair shortly there after. Colin fell into hard drugs, Jake found Jesus and set off on a missionary trip to Sierra Leone, Austin and Peter formed competing noise rock bands, and Jeremy disappeared into oblivion, some say to return to the side of his lover, Senator Durbin. But near the end of 2007, lifelong Torpor devotee Laura Higgins found Colin strung out on heroin under a bridge somewhere in Omaha, Nebraska. Saddened by the fall from grace of her favorite band, she took it upon herself to bring the band back together. After a few tumultuous practices, resulting in seven hospital trips (four alcohol related), the band returned to it's original form, bolstered by Laura's presence and was soon selling out Warming House shows once more. What lies ahead for Torpor? With the continuous recording of their debut album and the pending summer tour, Allah only knows.
Jeremy Jacobson 23 tammikuuta 2008 08.30
