Boris Policeband

Boris Pearlman joined proto no wave band Jack Ruby in 1973 playing viola "electrified...by running it through an FM transmitter and a bunch police walkie-talkies that he strapped around his waist.".

George Scott III who later played with Lydia Lunch, James Chance and John Cale (among others) joined in 1975, they broke up in 1977.

[3] He became known as Boris Policeband after a live performance in 1976 during which he monitored, on headphones, police communications from a scanner and recited their chatter while he accompanied himself on electric violin.

[citation needed] Boris was fascinated by cop culture and the often prosaic and sometimes poetic reality of law enforcement chatter.

[citation needed] Over the years the cop-talk and violin-screech coalesced into discrete songs that at times recalls the dissonant violin playing of the Fluxus artist Henry Flynt.