Weasel Walter is a
composer and instrumentalist who founded the band
The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure
Hal Russell and is a current member of Cellular Chaos and
Behold...The Arctopus. Over the years, The Flying Luttenbachers included noted Chicago musicians such as
Ken Vandermark,
Jeb Bishop,
Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, and Michael Colligan, while creating a body of music drawing equally from
no wave,
death metal,
free jazz,
gamelan,
noise music,
hardcore punk and
modern classical. Walter moved to the
San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green (Burmese), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez (ex-
Colossamite,
Gorge Trio). Singular guitar phenomenon
Mick Barr (
Krallice, Octis,
Orthrelm) joined the group in 2005. The Flying Luttenbachers ceased to operate in late 2007. On November 25, 2009, Weasel Walter announced that he was moving to New York City to join the band
Behold... The Arctopus on drums and will be writing "new, more extreme material from scratch." He also formed
Cellular Chaos with
Marc Edwards (drummer), Admiral Grey and Ceci Moss.