![]() ![]() I realize that it’s possible that all the Doktor Avalanches, from the original DR55 “Doctor Rhythm” to the Roland TR606 to the TR808 to the Akai S900 to all the recent motherboard and hardware configurations I won’t list out of fear of giving offense, were not permutations at all but different individual Doktor Avalanches. (I say the above under the belief that you are indeed the same Doktor Avalanche that has been ably keeping the backbeat, and occasional bass playing, for Sisters of Mercy since the original drummer, Eldritch himself, strayed from the Phil Collins path to focus on singing and general looming. As Sisters of Mercy’s second most senior member, and the only one besides Eldritch to not quit, be fired, or gone on to form a ponderous U2 cover band, I feel like you’re the drum machine I need to talk to. As both cricket and football are currently operating on a limited schedule, I’d have written your bandmate, Andrew Eldritch, but I feared this missive would cut too much into his online shopping for sunglasses, retracing of Urasawa comics, sending hate mail Umberto Eco’s ghost, or whatever else he might be doing in his prodigious downtime. ![]() I’m sorry to bother you, Doktor Avalanche. I will not ask “how you’re holding up.” What could I possibly do with that information? ![]()
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