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Asa Brebner

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  • Genre: Rock

    Location CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, US

    Profile Views: 37158

    Last Login: 10/18/2011

    Member Since 1/25/2007

    Website www.asabrebner.net

    Record Label Hi-N-Dry

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .... Dear Friends,.. It sounds really hoity toity but I am having a little "art opening" at 4:30 to 6:00 this Sunday, January 10th at Passim's coffee house in Harvard square. It's right across the street from The Border Cafe. Passims has been there forever. Joan Baez and maybe even Bob Dylan played there back in the "day". They serve beer and wine and I think vegetarian food will be available. I have a wall of new guitar/art most of which are functional instruments. I also Illustrated a bunch of quotes by my favorite wise guy intellectuals. This stuff I've shown before but if you didn't come to the Paradise show a couple years ago, you did not see it. I've also done a painting that I hope might illustrate T-Max's upcoming record "Why Do We Go To War?". He hasn't seen it yet but I got really carried away and had fun with it, glueing hundreds of toy soldiers to a canvas. I liked to play with toy soldiers as a youth and the only reason I gave it up was fear of ostracized by my peer group. They were becoming increasingly interested in girls. I reluctantly gave up my pre-adolescent fixation with war and violence when my baby sitter taught me to play Malaguena on a nylon string guitar. Eventually as many of you are aware, I graduated to electric "rock" guitar...This has served me well in the girl impressing game. A lot of time has come and gone since then. My former fantasy that they(girls) would throw their underwear at the stage has become a fear that they might , as "Depends" when thrown with sufficient vigor, can pack a velocity that even the most desperate ego- depleted rock star might not welcome. I may yet go back to toy soldiers. They are inexpensive, do not argue or get upset when I flirt with other armies. They provide a fantasy of control in this unpredictable veil of chaos. Anyway I sure did digress! Please come to the opening or peek in anytime during the month of January I may even play a few tunes solo acoustic. RSVP at this address.. All the best, and Happy new year!.. Asa.. .. .. .. .. .. ..In the course of his career, Asa has provided the backbone for a half dozen genuinely important bands and a slew of bands in between, and has been a sideman in more projects than he can count... ..Asa Brebner grew up in Boston, the only child of two writers, and learned guitar from listening to R&B, the Rolling Stones, and odd-ball blues records. In 1974 Asa started the Mezz - the band convinced the owner of a Kenmore Square bar called the Rathskeller to let them play. Thus began the "Years of the Rat", the club that became a center for what was later dubbed punk rock. Only two years later, Jonathan Richman convinced Asa to join the reformed Modern Lovers, just in time for their first tour of Europe, and before long, Asa was playing in European concert halls to fans from Sid Vicious to Mick Jagger... ..In 1978, Robin Lane showed up in Boston, and Asa helped form Robin Lane and the Chartbusters - they toured the US a couple of times, cracked the top half of the Billboard Charts, and were early faves on MTV. In 1981, Asa launched the Grey Boys, the first band in which he wrote all the songs and sang. At the end of '82, Asa reunited with Robin for one album and tour, and for the next two years, he did several club tours with the Chartbusters, and played Europe, the UK, and Australia with the reunited Modern Lovers. He continued to write his own songs, and rehearse them with pick-up bands when he was back in Boston, and in '86, Asa assembled a hand to start his own group which he called Idle Hands that toured all over and appeared on Warner Brothers Best of the Unsigned Bands compilation in '88. .. ..The ensuing years since have found Asa continuing to write, record and play his songs. He has released six solo albums: Prayer of a Snowball in Hell, Ragged Religion, I Walk the Streets, Best No Money Can Buy, Hot Air, Abbey Lode, and a retrospective compilation, Time in My Way... ..These days he can be found at the musician/songwriter hangs of Cambridge and Somerville: Toad, the Lizard Lounge, the Middle East, and the Abbey Lounge among others, where he's backed by former bandmates and an impressive array of musicians. Go see him play with Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, the Family Jewels, Andrea Gillis, Angeline, and as a solo artist in Asa Brebner Band... ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....

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