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420TUNES TALLBROTHERS
Healing & EasyListening / Jazz / R&B

"CD available at 420tunes.ca"

Vansterdam, British Columbia
Canada

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Member Since5/3/2007
Band Website420tunes.ca
Band MembersWilliam E. Small:lead vocals, guitar; Thomas G. Small:bass, mischief vocal. Recording personnel: Eloi Bertholet: drums; Maurice Garceau: tenor saxophone and clarinet; Roger Walls.com: trumpet, coronet and flugelhorn; Edgar Romero: bongos, and latin percussion; Martin Romero: congas and latin percussion; Dawn Pemberton and Christine Best: b.g. vocals; Steve Hilliam: tenor sax on Prince of Pot. Shael Wrinch: recorded percussion and female b.g. vocals. Recorded and mixed by Rod Shearer. Produced by Thomas G Small. All songs written by TALLBROTHERS.
InfluencesFrank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Frank Discussion.
Sounds Likehappy swing/latin/retro-chic old-skool james bond/bacharach/motown Song titles from our new CD: Club Papers--a new twist on great rolling papers My Baby Loves to Jive, Jive, Jive--she smokes her jive Simply Business--corporate greed vs. a plant Jive Cake Stuffin'--about medicinal muffins Jive Up--see video on this page I'm Kinda High--bossa nova Viper's Ball--a reefer celebration Jive Up Mama--"vaporize, visualize, glassy eyes, LEGALIZE!" Reefer Blues--"I got no friends 'cause I got no buds, just shake baby, shake" You Get Me Too High--like motown panty-remover Cool Out--"and always smoke the best!" Prince of Pot--Marc Emery's theme Smokin' What We Want for Christmas--"ain't none o' yo' business what we're smokin' at Christmas"
Record Label420Tunes
Type of LabelIndie





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   About 420TUNES TALLBROTHERS

The Tallbrothers are the legendary reeferjazz band based in Vancouver. They are Bill and Thomas G Small, actual brothers who grew up in south-western Ontario in a musically-gifted farm family of six. Their father was a child-prodigy pianist who commenced public appearances at age 5. Their mother taught herself Debussy by ear on her parent’s baby grand piano.
Bill led 70’s rock bands in his early teens moving on to jazz bands with horn sections in his late teens. He married young, had kids, bought a house in Ottawa and then acquired and oversaw a hundred-million-dollar real estate business until the stress, including life-threatening ulcers forced him to re-evaluate.
He divested all of his real estate holdings and became a Red Cross director. He formed a bluegrass band with his brother and started gigging in Montreal clubs honing formidable jazz vocal chops. Upon discovering that marijuana had cured his ulcers he moved to Vancouver and helped launch the British Columbia Compassion Club Society, initially operating out of his apartment. This organization provides low-cost, high quality organic medicinal marijuana to anyone with a doctor’s prescription. Still strong after over 10 years, the club now services more than 4000 members and has assisted another 2500 sadly departed.
Thomas G began playing different instruments and writing music at age 8. At 14 he was a featured guitar soloist in his high school jazz orchestra leading them to a 1st place victory in the Canadian Stage Band Festival competition. He studied music production at Fanshawe College’s Music Industry Arts program under the tutelage of Jack Richardson, acclaimed producer of all 14 Guess Who records, many more for Alice Cooper and mentor to protégé producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.”)
After several years as an audio engineer and playing many genres of music in as many bands, he worked for Swing Dynamique on double-bass. This Montreal institution featured two but as many as five Duke Ellington alumni at once and boasted the legendary Guy Nadon on drums. They played for crowds of up to 250 000 people at the Montreal Jazz Fest and their self-titled CD must still receive regular airplay on Quebec radio judging by the royalty checks that keep coming.
Thomas G moved to BC’s Sunshine Coast in 2002 to join Bill and Tallbrothers were deployed to satisfy a growing niche market spinning off of BC’s famous seven billion dollar industry. He wasted no time writing up charts for three sets of 30’s and 40’s reefertunes gleaned from the archives of Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and many others. The band moniker derives from one of these entitled “Man With the Jive” (“Light up baby and get real tall!”). Their own songs soon eclipsed these classics in quantity and perhaps in accesibility too, updating the genre to address today’s heroes and issues for a younger generation while maintaining the easy bounce that turns grandma into a teenager again.
Their fame spread internationally when they headlined the 2004 Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam and has continued with song licensing deals in TV, films, web-casting and their overnight internet sensation hit CD “Simply Business.”

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Jeremy Head





May 16 2008 10:06 PM

cool! what program was that on? which day? it's always good to hear this.
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May 15 2008 7:18 PM

just stopping in to listen to your songs! I guess I should really buy a CD huh?
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May 15 2008 9:42 AM

Thanks for the add fellas! Diggin your vibe for sure! Much respect! Stay high and Stay Irie!

~One Love~
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May 14 2008 4:23 AM

Just Droppin by to say HiGH!!!

'fire it up'
Catharine





May 13 2008 10:41 AM

thanks for adding me! I love your tunes! -c.
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May 12 2008 2:47 PM

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May 4 2008 10:59 PM

Ya''ll are cool as hell. Were smokin some snowcap kush right now, and lovin your tunes. Come to Tucson, Arizona.
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May 2 2008 8:38 AM

aaah the paddock has changed ...i don't know how long ago that was exactly... (was there a beehhived waitress there at that time?))
You now enter from Bathurst which is beside the old Healeys club ...You wouldn't recognize it..

thanks for dropping by
Linda
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Apr 25 2008 9:33 AM

It's Friday...Get Your Freak On!
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Apr 22 2008 1:17 PM

It saddens me to hear that :( Well happy belated 4/20...I better start saving up for my next Canadian odyssey.
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Apr 21 2008 8:54 PM

So when is your Santa Cruz, California show going down? Respect!
Chief Greenbud





Apr 20 2008 9:55 PM

Happy 4/20 to my favorite Tall Brothers !!!
Deezy





Apr 20 2008 2:50 PM

happy 420 from South Louisiana bros...
~amigo*mike~





Apr 19 2008 3:23 PM

happy 4-20 eve amigOs!! have a good one [:
Jeremy Head





Apr 11 2008 8:49 PM

Maybe you could go for a little New Music West at Pat's Pub, May 15th, 7:30?

-Jeremy
AMARANTHA





Apr 11 2008 10:14 AM

Buena Onda para ustedes tambie´n !!! Saludos desde Chile
Amarantha
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Apr 6 2008 9:48 AM

I'm afraid I don't know "Wrapped in Cellophane".

But if you hum a few bars I'll fake it.
Mr Leif





Apr 4 2008 6:23 PM

yeah i read about the music in an old heads article in the pisser. fuckin great work
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Mar 30 2008 3:00 PM

Greetings from Noveltyland!
Roger Walls





Mar 30 2008 2:47 PM

How's it goin guys - spring is in the air - couldnt make much of that broadcasting thing - maybe ther's some insite I don't know check out utube.com/wallsofmusic all new originals I wrote and +++ Rachel is up 2 - miss U guys - rocket
Jive-Spray





Mar 18 2008 9:28 PM

peace and love good luck in Pemberton!
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Mar 18 2008 9:13 PM

i heard you guys play bluegrass--you rock my rocky mountain high!
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Mar 18 2008 11:03 AM

Does 420TUNES ever make it to the Island?
Come party with us!
cheers, krissi-steele
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Mar 16 2008 6:28 PM

Thank you. if you ever hit the midwest, be sure to let us know.
BIG DIPPER





Mar 12 2008 7:49 PM

Great page! u guys rock! God bless u n yours! speed safely!
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Mar 5 2008 8:27 PM

Bill Small talks Tall Jive when he takes Time 4 Hemp!

And it's free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.com

The Tall brothers are the legendary reefer-jazz band based in Vancouver. They are Bill and Thomas Small, actual brothers who grew up in south-western Ontario in a musically-gifted farm family of six.

When Bill Small began dealing with ulcers years ago, he turned to the use of marijuana to help with a cure and moved to Vancouver and helped launch the British Columbia Compassion Club Society, initially operating out of his apartment. This organization provides low-cost, high quality organic medicinal marijuana to anyone with a doctor’s prescription. Still strong after over 10 years, the club now services more than 4000 members and has assisted another 2500 sadly departed. Bill talked about this and much more when he sat down and took Time 4 Hemp.

Please pass this information on to those you know would most enjoy it.
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