For a bigger picture of the band as well as some more information on our members, please check out the Members of the Band blog over on the right side of the page.
For booking information, please click on the link for our Band Website, above, and email us directly from the Contact Us Page...
Featured Video!!!
How Blue Can You Get - A fan's video from Flemington, NJ on August 18, 2007. Kate really rocks this BB King tune as does our great horn section. Only King's band does the horn intro like this so it's a real treat!!! Remember... MORE VIDEOS ARE ON THE VIDS LINK ABOVE!!!
The BassBoards Jukebox
Welcome to our jukebox of LIVE RECORDINGS! That's right! While other bands only give you their studio work, we have the "stones" to feature actual recordings from our gigs. These tracks are absolutely raw, that is, unfiltered, unmixed, unedited, un-everything'd! Imagine if we used more than a single mic in the audience!!!
We currently feature nine (9) songs with more to come...
Influences
All Blues styles including delta, chicago and texas plus modern blues, blues/rock, blues/jazz fusion and good time honkeytonk. Song catalog includes numbers from Muddy Waters, BB King, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Albert King, Buddy Guy and many others. Original blues compositions are also performed.
The Refrigerator
Don't ask what's inside, but you can leave an anonymous message for us any time you want. Just click [ Reset ] and move the magenets. Hey, your kids got to do it, why not you!!!
(pronounced "Base Boards"...we're not a fishing group)...
Many years ago, in the heart of Mesopotamia, there once lived...skip ahead...skip ahead...
The BassBoards Blues Band (from "bass" and "keyboards") officially began in the summer of 2004, although its roots go a lot further back...just not as far back as Mesopotamia. John Caruana and Greg Lagana, the two music nuts who put this band together, are, in fact, cousins "by marriage" since John's first wife Susan was Greg's "first cousin". These two guys have known each other since the '60s but their friendship and collaboration on a number of projects didn't flourish until they met at a relative's funeral in 1984...a rather inauspicious place for a new beginning.
Computers and music connected the two for many years until Greg convinced John to attend The National Guitar Workshop in New Milford, CT with him and spend a week playing The Blues...Greg on keyboards and John on bass guitar. Three years later, at the NGW Blues Summit, the boys were inundated with requests from individual guitarists to back them up onstage at the workshop as well as be the rhythm section for their common gig at the famed Bitter End club in New York City that August. This "popularity" convinced them that a new kind of band could be formed, one that revolved around drums, keys and bass instead of lead guitarists and "front men". Once John's daughter Kate was brought on board to sing a lot of the lead vocals in January of 2005, the band started to get noticed. Now with a full 5-piece horn section in place, there are very few bands out there with the power and talent to match what The BassBoards can deliver to a live audience.
The BassBoards is intended to be a unique repertory band, one in which the rhythm section comprises the core of the outfit while guitars, harp, horns, vocals, etc. are all scaleable to the occasion. At this writing, 13 talented musicians comprise the basic band while over a half-dozen "guest artists" from both New Jersey and as far away as Maine and Alabama play with The BassBoards from time to time. Everyone is an experienced player and an excellent musician in their own right; most of them have played in public many years ago and have been waiting for the right opportunity to showcase their talents again.
Hey...thanks for the ADD! I love your style of Blues...has a Very Cool Vibe going down! Your rendition of "sweet Home Chicago" is Awesome! If you ever get a chance, check out Foghat's version of the same song...very Cool as Well! Love your act! Have a great week!!
Hey Hey,
Just checking in to see how things are going these days? Looking forward to meeting up at a show at some point. Keep in touch.
Cheers,
Matt & Kane
Did something go wrong To make you choose that bike over me? I waited so long For the love that she promised but she Gave to her bike instead of me Ahh…
At long last, "Little Honda Susie" is on the LF&F MySpace player!
Also back on the player by popular demand... "The Seedling" and "Song of Loretta"
Thanks for being friends..!!
And thank you for your support.
I let me know if you would like for me to add other songs to my profile. There are 15 classics now.
Thaks
