Glass Eye (band)

Glass Eye were an influential art rock group based in Austin, Texas, and were primarily active from 1983 to 1993. Popular in Austin, and on the college radio and tour circuit, the band's unusual and unique musical style, blending melodic hooks with dissonance and occasional tendencies for the avant-garde, delighted critics. Considered "one of Austin's most popular and influential bands", their commercial success never matched their critical acclaim. Through self-release, and being signed to Wrestler and Bar/None Records, they released four LPs, two EPs and one single, and when the band regrouped in 2006, they released their previously lost final LP, Every Woman's Fantasy, on their own label, Glass Eye Records.

Glass Eye formed in 1983, and became regulars in the post-punk Texas music circuit. An episode of the MTV show "Cutting Edge" from 1985 featured Glass Eye (and other bands like the The Reivers, Timbuk 3, and the seminal singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston) as examples of the so-called "New Sincerity" musical movement. Johnston played his first public performance opening for Glass Eye. He had given his self-recorded tape, Hi, How Are You to Glass Eye frontwoman Kathy McCarty, who didn't listen to it until after Johnston asked her what she thought of the record (she reportedly praised it, then went home and listened to it immediately afterwards). McCarty and Johnston later dated briefly; their relationship is documented in the 2006 Jeff Feuerzeig film The Devil and Daniel Johnston, as well as the Glass Eye song "Kicking the Dog".

The original line-up of Glass Eye consisted of:

This lineup was featured on their first two records, Marlo (1985) (which a Texas Monthly reviewer called "one of the most gripping independent releases from Texas in recent memory") and Huge (1986) which was dropped by the label shortly after release. In 1987, Marcus and Weir left the band. Sheri Lane played keyboards and guitar and Dave Cameron, now Lisa Cameron following a name change, played drums on the 1988 album Bent By Nature. Marcus and Weir rejoined the band in 1989 and the band released Hello Young Lovers that year and the "Satellite of Love/Rock of Hand" single in 1991.

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