Human Sexual Response

Human Sexual Response started with a kazoo. Casey Cameron put together an all-kazoo band called Kazoondheit with her neighbors Larry Bangor, Dini Lamot and Windle Davis, and the four got on so well that they turned into an a cappella country-and-western act, Honey Bea and the Meadow Muffins, singing at parties and down in the subway. From there it was a short hop to a real rock band, formed in Boston in 1978.

Ads brought in drummer Malcolm Travis, guitarist Rich Gilbert and bassist Rolfe Anderson, making seven in all, and they took their name from the Masters and Johnson bestseller. Bangor sang most of the leads, but Lamot, Davis and Cameron each took a turn at the microphone, so the band sounded like a whole cast of characters crowding the stage over jittery new wave rhythms. Chris Maclachlan took over on bass in 1980.

With Maclachlan aboard they made two albums, Fig. 14 in 1980 and In a Roman Mood in 1981. "What Does Sex Mean to Me?" is the Fig. 14 track rock radio held onto, a nervous, twitchy question set to a beat, and "Jackie O" became a second calling card. By 1982 they had split.

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