bb king, buddy guy, little walter, t rex, muddy waters, comets on fire, jon spencer, earth, giant spiders, mud, etta james, robert johnson, rl burnside, sunburned hand of the man, big joe turner, velvets, black dice, derek & the dominos, callahan brothers, son house, konono no1, mulatu astatke, robert nighthawk, meters, james brown, booker t & the mgs, led zeppelin, junior walker, lightnin hopkins, neil young, moby dick, hurricanes, ray charles, need new body, cream, lil wayne, coltrane
an amalgam, a culmination, the perpetual living party. everyone a member, always amorphous, marching spontaneous. raucous and radical. we have lots of drummers and lots of names at different times: the fishes, toogies boogie woogie band. sold our souls to the raspberry devil.
toast beards is sometimes a blues band that recently moonlights as a modified jazz quartet. beards are basically improvisational, sometimes metamorphose traditional music into new soundscapes, most time loose jam with only discovery in mind. beards 4 eva.