Career
He is perhaps best recognized for his collaborations with David Thomas and Kramer. In the late seventies, while studying art history at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Hild formed the experimental punk band with Robin Amos, George Condo and Mark Dagley. Their first and only studio release was the seven inch single Jeffrey I Hear You/The Elephant Manitoba, produced by David Thomas of the Pere Ubu fame.
Eventually Hild joined Thomas in his band and played on Monster Walks the Winter Lake, released in 1986.
He released several albums on Shimmy Disc with Ralph Carney and Kramer, serving as the primary lyricist,vocalist and drummer for the compositions.