Saxophonist (1983-1987) (2005-now)
From "Midnight To Midnight" tour program:
Date and Place of Birth
5/29/58, Chicago, Illinois
Favourite Colour, Number and Vice
Black and Blue, 5, Girls
Favourite Food and Favourite Drink
The Worm, Tequila
Favourite Film and/or Director
Blade Runner
Favourite Book and/or Author
Delacorte
Most Memorable Occasion
Playing for a deaf, mute audience who then told me I sucked
Whats the Worst Job You've Ever Had
Playing the New York City Perverts Club
Favourite Artist and/or Work of Art
Dali, Harley Davidson
Favourite Clothes Designer
Me
Favourite Club
Riviera Club, Chicago
Favorite Single and Album
Champs - Tequila, Talking Heads - Remain in Light
First Record You Ever Bought
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Last Record You Bought
Blah Blah Blah' - Iggy Pop
Favourite Musician
Albert Ayler
Favourite Songwriter
Iggy Pop
Favourite Guitar Solo of All Time
Steve Stevens on I Pity the Fool
Band You Would Least Like to Be in
Barry Manilow
Best and Worst Gig Ever Seen
Iggy Pop, New York, Worst: AC/DC, Meadowlands
Favourite Actor and Actress
Michael Caine, Linda Lovelace
Played on:
- Mirror Moves (1984)
- Pretty In Pink (1986)
- Midnight to Midnight (1987)
- Made of Rain (2020)
- Audio One
- Boneshaker
- Chicago Edge Ensemble
- Chicago Reed Quartet
- Cinghiale
- Deep
- Everplastic
- Hal Russell's Chemical Feast
- Harrison Bankhead Quartet
- Harrison Bankhead Sextet
- Heaven Orchestra
- Keefe Jackson's Likely So
- Liquid Soul
- Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights
- NRG Ensemble
- Paul Giallorenzo's Gitgo
- Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet
- Slam!
- Stirrup+6
- Switchback
- Swollen Monkeys
- The Untouchables
- The Waitresses
- Trio Red Space
- Vandermark
- Witches & Devils
- Xmarsx
- Fred Frith - Speechless
- Swollen Monkeys - After Birth Of The Cool
- The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
- The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
- Swollen Monkeys - On Vacation! EP
- Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
- Saxophone on "Catch My Fall"
- The Waitresses - Bruiseology
- Hal Russell and Mars Williams - EFTSOONS
- The Power Station - The Power Station 33 1/3
- Rubber Rodeo - Heartbreak Highway
- Mark Freeland's Electroman - Come
- Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
- Saxophone on "Cannibal Song"
- Billy Squier - Here & Now
- Naked Raygun - Raygun...Naked Raygun
- Tenor saxophone on "Holding You"
- Lostboys - Lost and Found
- Saxophone on "Seaside Lover"
- DownTown Scotty Brown - On Top Of The World
- Energy Vampires - Energy Vampires
- Ike Reilly - Community #9
- Saxophone on "Peaceful"
- Shooting Gallery - Shooting Gallery
- LaTour - Home On The Range
- Saxophone on "Following You"
- Krash Man - Black Circle
- Saxophone on "Black Circle"
- Spies Who Surf - Calling All Martians
- Saxophone on "Cyanide Junkie" and "Black Earth"
- Die Warzau - Engine
- Die Warzau - Liberated
- Dessau - Details Sketchy
- Sister Machine Gun - Burn
- Oxygiene 23 - Blue
- Sister Machine Gun - Metropolis
- Enuff Z'nuff - Seven
- Everplastic - Aqua Girl
- Lego - Quiet On The Set
- Nikki Sudden - Red Brocade
- Tenor saxophone on "Countess", "Stained Sheets", and "Take Me Back Home"
- Soprano saxophone on "Stained Sheets"
- Ike Reilly - Salesmen and Racists
- Urban Knights - The Chicago Project
- Die Warzau - Convenience
- Le Concorde - EP
- Le Concorde - Universe and Villa
- Baker, Hunt, Sandstrom, Williams - Extraordinary Popular Delusions
- The Ike Reilly Assassination - We Belong To The Staggering Event
- Full Blast + Friends - Crumbling Brain
- Scorch Trio With Mars Williams - Made In Norway
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Apocryphal Fire In The Warehouse, And Other Explanations
- Fancy Space People - Fancy Space People
- Williams / Haker Flaten / Daisy - Moments From
- The Young Mothers - A Mothers Work Is Never Done
- Saxophone on "Mole"
- Satellite Paradiso - Satellite Paradiso
- Saxophone on "Angelic"
- Ike Reilly - Born On Fire
- Saxophone on "A Job Like That (Lasalle & Grand)", "Do The Death Slide!", "Live Like We're Dying"
- Tim Daisy - October Music Vol. 2 - 7 Compositions For Duet
- Soprano saxophone, percussion on "Type - M"
- Mars Williams - Mars Williams Presents: An Ayler Xmas
- Jim Marcus - Wonderland
- Ike Reilly - Crooked Love
- Dizzy Reed - Rock 'N Roll Ain't Easy
- Horns on "I Celebrate" and "Rock 'N Roll Ain't Easy"
- Mars Williams / Tollef Østvang - Painted Pillars
- Larry Ochs, Mars Williams, Julien Desprez, Mathieu Sourisseau, Samuel Silvant - Stroboscope
- Mars Williams - Mars Williams Presents: An Ayler Xmas Volume 2
- Dave Specter - Blues From The Inside Out
- Rafael Torres, Mars Williams, Tim Daisy - Elevation
- Mars Williams - Mars Williams Presents: An Ayler Xmas Volume 3: Live in Krakow
- Mars Williams & Vasco Trilla - Spiracle
- Mars Williams - Mars Williams Presents: An Ayler Xmas Volume 4: Chicago vs. NYC
- Tim Daisy, Mars Williams - Live From Vienna
- Dave Rempis & Mars Williams - Hornithology
- Mars Williams - Mars Williams Presents: An Ayler Xmas Volume 5
- Mars Williams & Vasco Trilla - Critical Mass
- Custard Flux - Phosphorus
- Mars Williams, Katinka Kleijn, Robert Kassinger - Two Or Three
