Controlled Bleeding Live Improv at Tonic, NYC Part 1 of 2

Visit Controlled Bleeding on the web: Paul Lemos and Joe Papa of CONTROLLED BLEEDING, playing a live improv set with friends under the band name THE BREASTFED YAK. Guitarist Ron Anderson and drummer Keith Abrahms also play in PAK. Footage shot at New York’s Tonic sometime in 2006. Lineup: Joe Papa Vocals Paul Lemos Bass Ron Anderson Guitar/ Pocket Trumpet Keith Abrahms Drums Evan Lead Electronics Controlled Bleeding is an experimental group that was originally formed in Boston around 1978 by Paul Lemos, Jack Salerno and Dave Southerland. Later, returning to Massapequa, New York, Lemos joined forces with old school chums, Gary Pecorino and Tony Meola in the first recorded version of the band, creating instrumental music that has been described as a collision between The Ramones and Mahavishnu Orchestra. Pecorino and Lemos would soon part ways due to musical differences over the presence of the thr
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