When Tortoise Slows Down, Herndon Speeds Up
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It’s not that Herndon doesn’t have enough material to do more. He has loads of tracks lying around–and he’s been reworking them for years. “Most of the stuff I hate and throw away,” he says. “I find it difficult to feel that something is finished. I could work on [the music] forever.” In fact, he wasn’t planning to put these tracks out either, until Galaxia approached him early last year.
Herndon moved to Chicago in 1985 from Asheville, North Carolina, where he grew up in a sort of co-op composed of a group of families that sold handicraft supplies. For the last half of the decade he drummed for Precious Wax Drippings, a band capable of both noisy, rhythmic workouts and gorgeous pop songs. After it dissolved in the early 90s Herndon spent a year playing with Champaign’s Poster Children before leaving to start Tortoise. He kept busy throughout the 90s doing stints with Five Style, the For Carnation, and Uptighty.
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