
Jeff Weigand in the heyday of the Volcano Suns One of the first assignments I gave myself as a new writer at Merry Swankster was a three-part history / tribute / love letter dedicated to Volcano Suns, a band that had fascinated me in my youth, yet was unknown to even the most well-versed young music fans out there. To my surprise, I quickly got a message from the Suns bassist Jeff Weigand, who clarified that the subject of the song "Sea Cruise" was the Fall's Mark E. Smith and generally praised my [...]