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Steve Craft: Drums (Vocally Silent, unless something important needs to be said) Matt LaBarber: Bass (Band mother, and tour manager)
Ian Wright: Guitar (The White Giant, At 6 Foot 8, he towers over the remaining band members and insures that we get paid at the end of the night)
Alfred Howard: Vocals (African American presence lends the hint of legitimacy to funk band and the stinkiest person alive.)
Josh Rice: Keys and Organ (Tells long meandering stories reminiscent of Grandpa Simspon, the meandering road usually arrives nowhere)
Influences
Beatles, Fela, Charlie Hunter, Radiohead, Mr. Bungle, Hendrix, Tower of Power, Wilco, Grateful Dead, Mastodon, Sufijan Stevens, Mark Lanegan, Aesop Rock, Graham Central Station, Sly, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Weapon of Choice, Stevie Wonder, Parliament/Funkadelic, Paul Simon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Phish, Digable Planets, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Black Sabbath, Pantera, System of a Down, the Mars Volta, the Duo, Skerik, Soulive, Slipknot, Frank Zappa, Jacob Fred Jazz Oddessy, Pinback, Donald Byrd, Grant Green, John Coltrane, Mingus, Dylan, Pink Floyd, At the Drive In, Motown Artists, STAX Artists, Blue Note Artists, 70's FUNK....
The original K23 lineup was assembled to play one show at the Whistle Stop. It was clear, after the first show, that there should be many, many more shows to follow. Over the past few years the music has grown and evolved. Today, the K23 is simply 5 members who live and love music. Each individual has a completely different background with varying influences and stylistic preferences. The result of the creative friction that exist between them is the beauty that is born from tension resolved. The music is based on structured improvisation, gradual builds and heavy sustained peaks, a rapid fire, yet articulate vocal delivery and swift dynamic changes. The band has shared the stage with varying artist and speakers who range from Sound Tribe Sector 9 to Ralph Nader, 2Mex to Howard Zinn, Robert Walter's 20th Congress to Bobby Kennedy.
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