CHRISTIAN JOHNSON- lead electric guitar, fiddle, mandolin and vocals
STEVE RIDDLE- bass and vocals
ROB QUIST- banjo, guitar and vocals
GREG REICHENBERG- drums
plus backup and crew
Influences
EVERYTHING UNDER THIS SUN HAS PASSED THROUGH OUR COLLECTIVE EAR AND OUT OUR COLLECTIVE OTHER.
"When the 'Wood Band' emerged, our society, even in Montana, was fragmenting, young versus old, hippies versus straights, environmentalists versus developers, with music splintering along with the culture: Santana versus the Lettermen, if you will.
And here came this band, hailing from the four corners of Montana, melding rock, blues, bluegrass, barbershop, show tunes . . . the Mickey Mouse theme . . . and the National Anthem . . . all in four-part harmony. It was like radio used to be, creative, surprising, romantic, energizing. Their audience was as eclectic as their music; bankers, bikers, lawyers, loggers, jocks, artists, hippies, farm kids, greeks, geeks, professors and dropouts.
Unlike the prevailing musical stage attitude of the day, which was to riff endlessly in some psychedelic trance off behind the speakers, Mission Mountain hit the stage in a detonation of energy and personality and built a show over the course of the night-- in a non-stop continuum--from a low boil to a house fire and burnt us all up in the blaze.
With propulsive guitar, drum, banjo, bass, fiddle and roguish joie de vivre', they blew apart the generation and culture gaps in their audience everywhere they went, coalescing us, with their musical and rhythmic bravado, reverence for tradition and irreverence for cliche', into a vast and enduring tribe of uplifted spirits.
-Mark Staples,
Oct., 2005
Attorney, Musician, Songwriter
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SOME WELL-KNOW NAMES MISSION MOUNTAIN WOOD BAND SHARED STAGE WITH
Buddy Alan
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World’s Greatest Jazz Band
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NACA COLLEGE CONVENTION BOOKING SHOWCASES
MISSION MOUNTAIN WOOD BAND PERFORMED
October 1973 NECAA Southeast Regional Charleston, South Carolina
October 1973 NECAA Upper Mid-West Regional Milwaukee, Wisconsin
February 1974 NECAA National Houston, Texas
October 1974 NECAA East Coast Regional Grossingers, New York
February 1975 NECAA Southwest Regional Dallas, Texas
February 1975 NECAA Northwest Regional Spokane, Washington
October 1977 NECAA Southwest Regional Tucson, Arizona
February 1978 NECAA National New Orleans, Louisiana
October 1978 ACUI Pajaro Dunes Santa Cruz, California
October 1979 NECAA Ft. Worth
Mission Mountain Wood Band's Friend Space (Top 17)
Heyyy, come party this Friday @ N&N Sports Bar in Smithfield! Every Friday from 10pm-2am!! Top 40,Dance,Hip Hop,& more!! Check out my bulletin for more info and please repost it. Hope 2 see you then!! FREE COVER!!! $2.25 Miller Lights!!!
The show in Libby was a good one. I would have preferred you guys to be the main act. Aeromyth was amusing but just didn't make me feel the way you do. Got a few good laughs from some of the new stuff though. Thanks, when is the Arber day kegger here in Missoula? Many years ago one of my good friends went to the first kegger. He skipped school to go and someone filmed him doing a keg stand and put it on the news so when he got home his mom had already seen the footage. Pretty funny if you ask me guess you cant get away with anything. Well I hope you guys are having a great week. Amberdawn
A couple of years ago you all signed my guitar in Polson, and I totally loved it. I am thinking about driving to Libby to your show on August 15, but need to know what time the show is and the cost both this page and Christian's page say cost to be announced, could you let me know please? I need to make travel arrangements, thanks, boys hope to see you there Many blessings, Amberdawn
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Big Sky, you all and The Brothers. Already makin plans. Be my first time home in over a decade. Road trip way over due. But if I can't be in Montana, West By God is the next best thing. Trulu good people 'round here. Peace, Mt.
I love you guys, still. Whenever I get homesick, I just put on some of your music and there I am, that kid out back of The Junction havin' the time of my life. Thanks, for then and now... Keep on truckin'!
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Thanks for adding me! I saw you many times in the "good old" days! I have some great photo's from a show in Minnesota and even a framed poster from a show in North Dakota. I also have some old ticket stubs in my collection.
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