Will Rast - Keyboards
Marc Blackwood - Bass
Jeff Franca - Drum kit
Jerry Busher - drums/percussion
Josh Kay - Percussion
Rodney Richardson - Guitar
Matt Rippetoe - Tenor Saxophone
Bobby Muncy - Alto/Baritone Saxophone
Joe Hererra - Trumpet
Jay Hatler - Trombone
AND YOU
Influences
James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, The Meters, Jimmy Smith, Tower of Power, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Budos Band, ANYTHING DAPTONE, for that matter, Lee Fields, Fela Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, Marva Whitney. Osaka Monaurail.....the world
Welcome to FUNK ARK's page. We are in the midst of our very first recording at Lilypad Studios, Jeff Franca's in-home studio, and we are very excited! Look for our first release sometime this summer or early fall.
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Sometime I listen to you guys stuff and sing non-stop....You guys are like my "little" junior walker and the All-Stars,lmao...Keep it funky, and maybe, I can jam wit yah..peace
The elves that play in the toasters wash their drum sticks in honey and sing strikingly colored anthems in perfect harmonious pleasure. You ever remind me of the enigma of happy thoughts I once forgot. I love your eyes, I know they can stare through my thoughts. The expanse of your beauty is a void no universe could ever fill. You turn the atmosphere ablaze with currents of sweet ethylene when you smile. If I could have just one wish, it would be to wake up to your songs in the morning. I find your eyes to be a wondrous amusement park filled with neo-plastic pleasures and turkish delights. May you be as vivid as your hallucinations. Your intoxicating reflection can but incorporate freely into the powerful surface of a disintegrating mirror set afloat upon a swarm of locusts. In your absence I am forced into finding other forms of amusement while thinking about you. You are dressed with filaments and people take pains to make you fully incandescent this evening. Cities crumble, skies ignite spontaneously in your presence.
Fellas... nice to catch you guys for the first time on Friday. Here's the set closer - I'll post to Archive once they activate your band (about 1-2 weeks usually.) Much love and respect. / Mike
Great set on Halloween, as usual! You made some new fans among the folks that came with us who had never seen you play! Hopefully we'll share a bill together again soon! Peace.
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