Rye Coalition’s Herb Wiley Diagnosed With ALS, Crowdfunding Treatment

Herb Wiley, a guitarist in Rye Coalition and the Black Hollies, revealed final week that he has been identified with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the uncommon neurodegenerative dysfunction that’s also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s illness. There’s now a GoFundMe page to crowdfund his remedy. Wiley has additionally launched a solo album of long-gestating songs that he recorded, coincidentally, instantly earlier than the onset of his ALS. Wiley performed each instrument on the album, recording and producing in a pal’s basement, within the hopes of retooling songs he initially wrote within the Nineteen Nineties to carry out with a brand new band. Take heed to the document, Wylie, under.

Wiley stated in an announcement:

I wrote all these songs again within the day round ’98, ’99 and performed them out a pair occasions utilizing my pal Scott (Black Hollies) on drums and Justin (Rye Coalition) on bass. Then I finished writing the album becoming a member of Rye Coalition to document the “On High” LP periods. Throughout Covid, when all people was holed up and and no one wished to do shit with the sky falling, I recorded this slowly in my pal’s basement to tape. I principally waited 25 years to document them correctly with hopes to place collectively a band and play them out. As quickly as I used to be completed recording and mixing, all of this began taking place to me. It was virtually as if, subconsciously, I want that I wanted to document them now or I won’t be capable to. And right here we’re. Very unusual synchronicity. Life is unquestionably stranger than fiction.

Submit-hardcore luminaries Rye Coalition shaped in New Jersey within the late Nineteen Nineties, bringing in Wiley for the aforementioned 2002 album, On Top. After signing to the ill-fated main label Dreamworks shortly earlier than its sale, the New Jersey band returned to indie label Gern Blandstein to launch a last album, the Dave Grohl–produced Curses, in 2006. A subsequent documentary, The Story of the Hard Luck 5, documented the band’s rise, label woes, and eventual break up, with enter from Grohl, Steve Albini, Jack Black, and others. Wiley is one in all three Rye Coalition members who went on to kind the Black Hollies.