LEXI LUTHER / Bio
Where does a desire for music start from?
Personally for me it was listening to my older brother Paul’s record collection. I remember loving Roxy Music’s first album and was totally pulled in by one track. “Ladytron”
With Brian Eno’s use of an early synthesizer and the thrashing of Phil Manzanera’s guitar.
Paul Thompson on drums, Andy Mackay on saxophone and the late Graham Simpson on bass guitar. The production of “Ladytron” was perfect.
I then started listening to Be-Bop-Deluxe with Bill Nelson. The group 10CC was another, then I moved onto the punk scene, Sex Pistols, The Clash,Dead Kennedy’s, then it morphed into “The Cure” “Japan” “Human league” “OMD” “Gary Numan” to name a few.
Music imitates life, forever morphing into new sounds.
It was in 1980 I saw an advert in a local paper asking for members to join a synthesizer band. I had only recently started playing the bass guitar and I would describe mysef as “The greatest average bass player”
I contacted Gordon Storey and over a beer or seven we got on really well. Another bonus was I drove a van!!!
We then decided on the band name. “The Ninth Configuration.” The name of the band was taken from the 1980 William Peter Blatty film of the same name starring Stacy Keech.
Gordon was the technical guy and I have the utmost respect for him. “Big G” as I now call him was and still is, an inspiration to me.
We only played one gig. After that we just started to drift apart.
I can’t explain why. It just happened.
To cut a very long story short I made contact with Gordon again in 2020.
“Big G” and I collaborated on new songs. We had both reignited our passion to producing music. It clicked again straightaway.
It was clear though in early 2022 that Gordon and I were moving in different directions musically. We then decided to split amicably.
I said to Gordon recently “Our music is much the same in spirit but it shall never converge. Never should it”
We are still good friends and we still go for the occasional beer.....or seven.
So here I am, producing my own brand of the quintessence sound
Best wishes to all.
Glenn Reeve
