Ben - Vocals, Guitar, Foot Tambourine Alex - Vocals, Banjo, Lead Guitar, Beard Joe - Mandolin, Swords Giovanni - Vocals, Stand Up Bass Philip - Phiddle
Influences
Crosby Stills and Nash, The Kinks, Rolling Stones, Hunter S. Thompson, Salvador Dali, Chunk circa 1985 in The Goonies, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Earl Scruggs, Violent Femmes
.. ..
Ben Morrison and Alex Morrison are brothers. They have been making music together from birth. Ben’s first word was ‘front-man’ and Alex’s was ‘moustache’ (see band photo). Joe Pacini and Gio Benedetti met Ben and Alex in high school. They shared many a living room jam session, many a raucous music party, many a front-stoop hoedown, but there was no band.
After years of studying, vision quests in far off lands, moving about, relocating, and the occasional intermittent music party, the young and now much hairier fellows found themselves in San Francisco with Alex, Ben and Joe living in a vibe-steeped flat on Haight Street, playing music (Ben on guitar, Alex on Banjo – both of them singing - and Joe on mandolin and cigarette breaks) at parties and open mics across the fair city. They needed a bassist. Gio happened to be a bassist. He also happened to live nearby.
The, now, quartet continued their tradition of stoop-and-living-room-esque performances, but moved them public. The dive bars of San Francisco became inspired, momentary homes, as friends, fans and music lovers rallied around the snug honesty of the band’s barroom shows. All they lacked was a brilliant fiddler with tremendous soloing skills, and with feet and soul firmly planted in the legacy of Old-Time, Bluegrass musics. Oh where, oh where could such a person be?
Philip Brezina – graduate student in classical violin at the nearby Conservatory and recent transplant from Pennsylvania – knew good roots music, knew how to play it and, best of all, knew how to play it on the fiddle. He wandered into the quartet (answering an ad posted in the Conservatory halls), and the long lost Brother Comatose was found.
Doors began opening. Performances at such legendary places as San Francisco’s Fillmore Poster Room, the Great American Music Hall, and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival followed, supporting such acts as The Devil Makes Three, Justin Townes Earl, Hillstomp, Greensky Bluegrass, John Doe and the Sadies, Yonder Mountain String Band and others.
Now touring in support of their recent debut full-length, Songs From The Stoop, The Brothers Comatose aim at converting the entire West Coast into their Living Room Music Party. Their shows exude a foot-stomping, shout-along, drink-along ease that was once a staple in every music-playing, front-stoop-possessing home in the land. Their shows can’t help but remind folk that music is collective, is for dancing, is for sharing, and for whatever else you might do with friends and family in your own living room.
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. Thank u for the friendship. Hope your day is going great, if u can follow me on twitter (http://twitter.com/ladytina86 ) Much love.
Thanks for the add! I hope you enjoyed the music! Please let me know if you liked what you heard. I'm a real person who just happens to make a living making music, and it means a lot to me to know you're listening.
yeah me and 3 other people stayed in my van for the whole weekend at hardly strictly when i saw you guys there. hit me up if you ever need some sort of percussion player like a washboard or a snare with brushes or anything else you can think of!
We are on the air Thursday 12/3 at 8pm KRCB FM with Doug Jayne and Bill Frater. MB&H is performing with Old Jawbone on the 5th at the Last record Store....and our debut CD release party on Sat. 12/12 also at the last Record Store at 4: 30 followed by a Jam session and food next door. Please bring you talent and instruments. Loved the music at Murphy's!!!
ah very good. we'll make it happen another day then. if you're free on thursday I'm having my ep release . . . the poster is my profile pic (details there) . . . best, a.
ah that's right! I heard 'bout that connection too . . . looking forward to it . . . and actually do you have any interest in Weds Jan 20th at the Elbo Room to headline?
Online Now!