Judge Smith plays regularly in venues throughout the DC Metropolitan area. The band released its debut CD, Feel It, in November 2003. In 2005, John and Ed recorded Judge Smith’s 2d CD, Visions, an acoustic duet.
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Ed Smith was born in New York State, but still loses his way up there when visting kinfolk. He has been Judge Smith’s front man and rhythm guitarist since its inception. Judge Smith performs numerous compositions penned by Ed. He keeps threatening to go back into the studio and come out with a killer record.
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Pete Eisler originally hails from New York and has been playing with popular DC-area bands since the late 1980s. All lead guitar work and several rhythm tracks, as well as harmony vocals, on Feel It, are performed by Pete. Pete said that he would never play with Ed again after the infamous break-up of their first band -- when they were thirteen. He relented after Ed apologized for yelling at him to turn his amp down. The boys still don't like to talk about it.
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John David Coppola is a native Washingtonian. John plays bass full-time and has solidified a career in the DC music scene for over a decade. John’s funky bass lines and smooth harmonies are heard throughout the band’s CDs, Feel It and Visions. John keeps teasing Ed about the next CD release date.
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Michelle Grasso is from Pennsylvania and now lives in Woodbridge, VA. She joined the band in early 2007 and has added not only some much needed good looks, but truly immense lead vocals and harmonies. She packs a huge wallup for her tiny frame and can sing sweet ballads with the best of them.
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Judge Smith also features Joe Wells and Seth Brown on drums and Hank Reuter on percussion.
Joe Wells is originally from Richmond, VA and currently plays and records as a member of The Tom Principato Band. He appears on the most recent Principato CD, House on Fire. Joe is a 1995 graduate of the Drummer’s Collective in NYC.
Concrete Alchemy is a tour of 15 visual artists visiting five major urban centers on the East Coast. It is the first tour that creatively combines gallery shows, public panel discussions and numerous murals to present the artists’ unique approach to public arts.
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 – National Harbor, MD The tour will officially end with a gallery exhibit opening at Art Whino on Friday, May 23, 2008 from 6 pm to midnight. The audience will have chance to view artists’ recently finished canvases and a slideshow of photographs from the previous days of the tour.
Then Join Art Whino for an OUT OF THIS WORLD experience as we celebrate Yuri’s Night, a World Space Party commemorating Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and the first human space flight. Yuri's Night is like the St. Patrick’s Day or Cinco de Mayo for space. It is a day when the world comes together to celebrate the power, beauty, and party potential of space. So dress yourself in your best celestial attire (prizes awarded); come see an art exhibition of other-worldly magnitude, and enjoy a Vodka of space themed libations by Stoli Vodka. Cosmic burlesque performances featuring Miss Saturn, spaced out Russian-style post-punk music by Mr. Moccasin, spacey DJ sets, and more will temporarily elevate you from your daily earthly existence.
Performances by: Miss Saturn, Gilded Lily Burlesque, L’il Dutch & selected scenes from Landless Theatre Company’s Space Battles the Musical will orbit throughout the night, hosted by the enigmatic Master Uranus
Here's to Rockin' in The New Year from Wicked Jezabel
