OK,
put on your thinking cap on because tracing the path that led
Kevin to Forever Einstein involves a cast of characters that includes
his wife Jennifer, his brother Sean, Einstein's previous bassist Jack
Vees and Chuck O'Meara.
The
story goes like this: Chuck, who is a psychiatric nurse by profession,
had a nursing supervisor named Jennifer Gerety. Chuck also had a
friend named Sean Gerety though he never connected their last
names. Jack Vees had a bass student named Kevin Gerety who came
to an Einstein gig and was impressed. One day when Chuck was talking to
Jennifer at work she realized he was the guitarist for Forever Einstein
and said "My husband is a fan of your band," and Chuck replied, "Oh, so
he's the same Kevin who studies with Jack." When Jack left the
band and Chuck was moaning to his friend Sean Gerety about needing a
bassist Sean said "Why don't you call my brother Kevin, he'd fit right
in," to which Chuck replied, "Ah, this Kevin I keep hearing about is
your brother!"
"Forever
Einstein's approach to music appealed to me in that each instrument has
its own voice," says Kevin. "The bass and drums are not merely a
rhythm section that supports the melodic instruments, sometimes they are
the
melodic instruments. Chuck's compositions allow each instrument a
certain amount of freedom and improvisation, which appealed to me,
coming from a jazz background. And I was pleasantly surprised to
find out that he wrote many of his bass parts with the fretless in
mind."
Kevin's
involvement with Forever Einstein began during the months leading up to
recording the band's fifth CD, "Racket Science," where he experienced
the detail oriented mind of drummer John Roulat. "Recording a
bass part with John as the engineer, the parts were under quite a bit
more a bit more scrutiny than I was used to," Kevin recalls.
"Listening to each recorded part was often accompanied by such comments
as 'what was that noise?' or 'did you mean to play that note?'
Which often meant the bass player would have to re-record his part."
