Marc Laurick | |
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Born |
Trenton, New Jersey, United States |
August 20, 1963
Died | May 7, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Genres | Art pop, post-punk, art punk |
Occupation(s) | Musician, bass player, composer, songwriter, singer, producer |
Instruments | Bass guitar, guitar, vocals |
Years active | 1980–2007 |
Associated acts | Bunnydrums, Certain General |
Notable instruments | |
Custom Lakland Decade Shortscale Fender Mustang Bass |
Custom Lakland Decade Shortscale
Marc Laurick (born August 20, 1963 in Trenton, New Jersey. Died May 7, 2017 in Amsterdam) is a Seattle-based bass player, songwriter, singer, and producer.
He began his professional freelance career in Philadelphia in 1980 at the age of 17. He has performed with Certain general, Sensory Fix,Bunnydrums,King Britt, Guillermo Gregorio, Skip Heller, Byard Lancaster, Mose Giganticus, and many others.
In 1992, he founded the Alliance Music Workshop musician's cooperative at Vox Populi, an independent performance gallery in Philadelphia. The Alliance Music Workshop provided an alternative space for music with an emphasis on improvisation and international styles. Some of the more notable performers he booked at the AMW include Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Joe Morris, Khan Jamal, Rob Brown, Marc Ribot, Rufus Harley, Tani Tabbal, and Square Roots (later The Roots). In 1997, he assisted Scott Black with the Frank Lloyd Wright Unity Temple Restoration Fund concert series in Oak Park, IL.
In July 2006, he engineered the return of the Philadelphia post-punk band Bunnydrums with original members David Goerk and Frank Marr, adding guitarist Howard Harrison (of Martin Bisi) and drummer Michael Mongiello to the lineup.