The origins of PURE 13, the labor of love of producer, songwriter and former Lynch Mob bassist Anthony Esposito, began around 1993 when the bassist exited the troubled sandbox of George Lynch and returned to New York City to open his own recording studio. The long, evolutionary, pain in the ass process that has led to the current incarnation of PURE 13 has been well worth the trip. Setting out Esposito set up Schoolhouse Studio, which slowly became the center of the New York underground music scene by becoming a place where bands who couldn't afford private rehearsal spaces and recording time in lavish studios found a home. He quickly rounded up a group of old friends and put together the first of a string of bands that would eventually become PURE 13. “The studio became a large filter for me, a strainer where I could see, hear and play with the best of what I thought New York had to offer." With an insatiable appetite for music -- quality music -- Esposito spent his time developing his studio and producing area bands. “I was really tired of the present state of pop music and nu-metal clogging the arteries of the creative process. We've had ten years of shit. It's a modern dark age of music -- all regurgitated, watered-down, inbred bastard children of other bands." Over the years, and various incarnations of what would become PURE 13, band members came and went. Undeterred, Esposito continued to develop his project whenever time would permit between running his studio, producing other bands, recording and touring with various bands, including a recent U.S. tour with a re-vamped Lynch Mob. “I never gave up on Pure 13 because I had to get the music out of my head," says Esposito. The resulting CD, whose recording began under the band name CONTROL and then NUMB, was finally completed under PURE 13 in 1999. The disk, which was affectionately titled Numb, was produced by Esposito and close friend Eric Gast. Once recording was finally finished, PURE 13 signed its first recording contract with Gig Records and went on to sell over 5000 copies of Numb even though the band was never provided tour support to promote their debut release. The recordings on Numb marked the end of an evolutionary process, musical snapshots taken at different steps of the band and its developing sound. As always, any kind of growth requires change and sacrifice. Opting to leave the confines of a set band situation, Esposito embarked on the next chapter as an individual. "The compromises necessary to making a band situation succeed never really suited my ways of working on this project. It ruined the spontaneity of the whole situation. So, we all mutually agreed to part ways," said Esposito. “This offered me the freedom of working with who I wanted to work with, when I wanted, and in whatever capacity I desired. Thus, I was able to create without ever hearing the word....NO." Now developed strictly under his own vision, PURE 13 has resulted in a seven-song demo that was produced, engineered and mixed by Esposito and longtime friend Tim Hatfield, known for his work with Keith Richard's X-Pensive Winos, PIL and others. In addition, Esposito handled lead vocals and bass on all songs, as well as guitar on a few, and was accompanied by some of the finest New York musicians who tossed in their two cents here and there. Heavily influenced by rock and punk of the 70's, 80's and 90's, While stripped down and raw, Pure 13 offers more intricacy and instrumentation than do current pack leaders like Jet, White Stripes and the Strokes, and exhibits a higher quality of melody and musicianship. PURE 13's sound is hard-driving, anthemic rhythms and melodies with a heavy bottom end. With the kind of high energy that has been conspicuously absent since grunge of the 90's took hold, Esposito's, growling vocals, while raw and gritty, convey the passion he has for his music. Musically, he has fused together elements of punk, grunge, classic rock and metal into a fresh sounding blend of straight-ahead, in-your-face rock that's a welcomed alternative to what has been offered in the name of rock in recent years. “I think I had to go through a wall of shit to get here," said Esposito. “I got really tired of trying to find something good to listen to, so I just made it myself."