Brooklyn based Grizzly Bear is made up of Daniel Rossen (songwriting/guitar), Ed Droste (songwriting/guitar), Chris Taylor (bass/woodwinds/electronics/vocals) and Christopher Bear (drums/vocals). All four members of the acid-folk/neo-psychedelic lo-fi quintet contribute vocals.
Grizzly Bear connected while students at New York University. During freshman year, Daniel met Chris Taylor in the dorm. Sophomore year, Chris Taylor met Christopher Bear through “jazz stuff” they were playing. Upon meeting Christopher Bear, Daniel realized that as teenagers, they went to jazz camp together. Ed met Christopher Bear while working on a documentary at NYU.
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2000.