The "Official" band as it stands at the moment....
Adrian Bourgeois- lead vocals, songwriting, guitar, piano, drums, harmonica, bass
Nicole Ridgwell- violin, guitar, harmony vocals
Nolan Watt- bass, mandolin, harmony vocals
Chris Coando-drums, guitar, harmony vocals
[your name here]- lead guitar, keyboards, bass, cello, french horn, harmony vocals
And occasionally any number of the following characters can be seen sharing a stage with me....
Mike Roe- guitar, vocals
Steve Mitchell- drums
Larry Tagg- bass
Robby Mogan- guitar, keyboards, vocals
Ricky Berger- guitar, keyboards, xylophone, acordian, flute, the kitchen sink, vocals
Melanie Krimetz- piano, vocals
David Houston- guitar, sitar, vocals
Matt Masih- guitar, piano, bass, vocals
Cheyenne Hill- bass
Brent Bourgeois- keyboards, vocals
Influences
The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, The Velvet Underground, U2, Tom Waits, Harry Nilsson, The Rascals, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Eisley, David Bowie, Chuck Berry, Electric Light Orchestra, Elliott Smith, Stevie Wonder, Oasis, The Who, XTC, Todd Rundgren, Feist, Owsley, The Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Roy Orbison, Wilco, Crosby Stills and Nash, Public Nuisance, Smokey Robinson, Anton Barbeau, Justin Farren, Bjork, The Zombies, Fiona Apple, Buddy Holly, Charlie Parker, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Talking Heads, The Kinks, Love, Cream, The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Frank Zappa, The Swell Season, Hanson, Michael Jackson, Imogen Heap, Jefferey Foskett, Joanna Newsome, Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, The Sleepy Jackson, REM, The Traveling Wilburys, The Wonders, Bourgeois Tagg, Monty Python, Jesus Christ, family, friends, Caitdizzle ..">
"Trust me on this: The record is absolutely brilliant."
Jackson Griffith, Sacremento News & Review
It's here!!! You know you want one....! Here's the tracklisting:
1. Mr. Imaginary Friend
2. Clown Review
3. Juniper
4. Dream On
5. To Be (The First Man On Earth)
6. Silk From Ashes
7. Summertime
8. My House
9. Jesus
10. Melt In My Mind
The family is now legitimate as my album is now officially available on CD Baby, one of the biggest wellsprings of independent music on the web! CD Baby lets fans review the music too, so please, your comments are welcomed. Here's the link to buy it:
Also if you really want to be awesome, stick this link on your page so your friends can buy it too!
And as always, you can still purchase the record at www.adrianbourgeois.com or if you want to be super modern and chic you can buy downloads here. Better yet, stick this store on your page so your friends can buy them!:
Also on CD Baby: Coming Up Roses-Sacramento Remembers Elliott Smith featuring many wonderful Sacramento artists such as Adrian Bourgeois (so modest!), David Houston, Day Care, Squish the Bad Man and countless others...actually eleven others if one goes through the trouble of counting...not much to count actually...whatever! Grab that one here at www.cdbaby.com/cominguproses
And now back to our regular program:
The world is watching Adrian Bourgeois! Okay maybe not the whole world (that’d be kind of creepy), but probably Big Brother and at very least a good handful of local entertainment rags, powerpop blogspots, and online independent music reviewers; in short, that small elusive world in which buzzes are born. And they all seem to be saying the same thing. “There’s no doubt he’s a young artist poised for pop greatness,” reads this year’s International Pop Overthrow West Coast Guide, “Definitely one to watch!” “I can’t wait to see what’s next,” gushes an album review on the blog Powerpopaholic and Sacramento music magazine Submerge agrees that, “The future is bright indeed for this pop star in waiting.” Jackson Griffith of the Sacramento News and Review even makes the prediction that “One day in the not-too-distant future, Adrian Bourgeois will be an influential force in pop music.” The common message: The whole world is not watching Adrian Bourgeois….but maybe they should be!
Perhaps this is all boilerplate talk, the type of thing that is written about an artist that is superfluous enough to make him sound good but not specific enough to commit to any type of serious interest. Not so in the case of Adrian Bourgeois who may not be old enough to remember when Ronald Regan was president but takes his main musical inspiration from the era of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon and who recently finished his first year of college with the news of being crowned California’s capitol’s best songwriter and winning the nationally popular OurStage competition. “He’s a wide-eyed six-year-old boy trapped inside a twenty-something pop-genius’s body,” writes Jon Meyer of the Boston radio station WERS dubbing Bourgeois’s songs “musical finger paintings” and concluding that “There’s as much C.S. Lewis as there is Simon and Garfunkel in this Californian’s airy, dreamy folk-laced sound.” Jackson Griffith is almost poetic when describing Bourgeois’s songs as possessing “a remarkable melodic confidence—just when a tune has ingratiated itself into your memory, in the way the kind of pop music does that inspires one to whistle, the melody sweeps upward, turning and dancing in that unpredictable way that a flock of birds does when it moves toward the sun,” and more succinctly as “among the finest post-Beatles pop tunes I’ve ever heard.” And Not Lame Recordings had this to say about Bourgeois’s mostly self arranged and self performed and completely self written debut album: “His plaintive, inviting voice intoxicates, filling the listener with the beautiful arrangements and Bourgeois’s easy cadence makes for an inviting introduction on this debut---yet it’s the slow, urgent, unfolding melodies that shine, shine, shine and are impossible to miss.” The future indeed does look bright for Adrian Bourgeois who is busy rehearsing a small ensemble of multi-instrumentalists for west coast festival dates throughout the remainder of the year, but the present doesn’t look so bad either. According to the Sacramento News and Review, “It’s becoming silly to say, “Watch this guy; he’s going places.” The fact is he’s already there.”
Why believe in Adrian Bourgeois? Adrian Bourgeois believes in you. He is an old fashioned sort of artist in that the songs he writes are inspired by moss-covered monuments, soldiers with umbrellas, merry-go-rounds that come to life, and reading other peoples’ minds. He believes that music itself as a sound and an essence cannot change the world but music that is written about love and magic, water and fiction, war and childhood, can indeed change the world, as well as the ocean that moves the world and the tiny drops of water that create the ocean. This is why he believes in you. You are the ocean. Adrian Bourgeois believes in creating drops of water because even the ocean gets thirsty sometimes.
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I just found this video on my computer at home from a couple of years ago of me at the Jammies performing "Clown Review" with Vince DiFiore from the band Cake. Not much has changed since then except, I suppose, my various degrees of facial hair...
And for those of you who doubted my ability to rawk(!) here's a video of Mike, Steve, Cheyenne and I at the Underground Cafe in Roseville:
Just wanted to drop a line to remind you what a kind, caring and extremely wonderful human being you are! This planet could use more folks as yourself......
Hey! Thanks for the add! We really appreciate it. Maybe we'll play a show you can come to some time! Ya never know! Have a great weekend and thanks again! Cannon
AHHHHHH SHUCKS! We need to do a show together! adrian....I have been meaning to dl those songs for so long, I am never at home...BUT I AM RIGHT NOW! I will do it right now! I even have blank discs! I will report back by friday! I'll listen to them until then...I'm not half assin it I promise! :)
