Biography
Industry emerged from New York with Jon Carin handling synthesizer, keyboards, and vocals, Mercury Caronia on synthesizer, percussion, and drums, Rudy Perrone covering guitar, bass, and vocals, plus Brian Unger on guitar and vocals. The quartet issued an EP in 1983, then delivered their sole full-length release, Stranger to Stranger, via Capitol Records the following year. Although the buoyant, dance-floor-ready keyboards on “State of the Nation” appeared perfectly suited to early-’80s American Bandstand, the track’s sharp anti-war message gave it both intellectual weight and immediate appeal. The single found strong traction in clubs, particularly across Asia, yet the band’s only other output left no comparable mark on the pop landscape.
While enjoying Beatles-like adulation in the Philippines, unverified reports circulated that most members had died in a plane crash. On 13 July 1985 Carin supplied keyboards for Bryan Ferry’s Live Aid set. Subsequent collaborations placed him alongside Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, the Psychedelic Furs, and Corey Hart. In 1998 he recorded Meat the Honky with Honky Tonk, the group assembled by ex-Love Spit Love guitarist Richard Fortus, and the next year he served as Roger Waters’s keyboardist on tour.
While enjoying Beatles-like adulation in the Philippines, unverified reports circulated that most members had died in a plane crash. On 13 July 1985 Carin supplied keyboards for Bryan Ferry’s Live Aid set. Subsequent collaborations placed him alongside Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, the Psychedelic Furs, and Corey Hart. In 1998 he recorded Meat the Honky with Honky Tonk, the group assembled by ex-Love Spit Love guitarist Richard Fortus, and the next year he served as Roger Waters’s keyboardist on tour.
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