by Dean CarlsonExalted by their own operatic prog-glam ambitions, Ultrasound appeared in the late '90s as a violent reworking of the idiosyncratic compositions of Captain Beefheart and the staged ambisexual pop idioms of the likes of Gary Glitter and David Bowie. Andrew "Tiny" Wood (voice, guitar), Richard Green (bass), Pete Haslem (keyboards), and Andy Peace (drums) had splintered away from Newcastle's Sleepy People in February of 1994 in hopes to break the pulsing London circuit, starting off with the inauspicious moniker of Pop-A-Cat-A-Petal. After a self-titled debut EP on Org Records, the band replaced Haslem with Matt Jones and drafted in Vanessa Best for bass, forcing Green to take up lead guitar and giving the band enough reason to brand themselves the more commercial-friendly name, Ultrasound.\r In many ways, Green's switch of instruments represented an important turnaround. As a new lead guitarist, he steered the band away f...