Charles Ray Experience: Hooked On Dialectics

The Charles Ray Experience were an experimental song-based noise collage band that emerged from UCLA’s graduate art school in the early 1990s. Their line up included Hector G Romero, Doug Harvey, Colin Cook, and assorted guest performers who all performed on a variety of instruments and usually included rhythm and electric guitars, trumpets, drums, drum machines, turntables, and electronics. 

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Desparado, why don't you come to your senses?

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