X-Legged Sally

by Jason AnkenyAn experimental, Zappa-influenced group from Belgium, X-Legged Sallys membership included Peter Vermeersch, Paul Belgrado, Pierre Vervloesem, Danny Van Hoeck, Peter Vandenberghe, Bart Maris, and Michel Mast. In 1990 the band contributed a track to the Live at the Knitting Factory, Vol. 4 collection, which resulted in a continuing loose affiliation with the New York downtown scene. Following three albums on the Sub Rosa label — two of them produced by Bill Laswell — X-Legged Sally released their American debut, The Land of the Giant Dwarfs, in 1995. Fired, a live album featuring music from several of their previous CDs, was released in 1996.