Mike Messer - Mad love, happy love, all love. Plus guitar and voice.
Nicholas Cassarino - Bass, Guitar, Vox, lower chakra power
Matt Bogdano - Drums
LIVE at Boom Boom Room 3-22-08 "Exclusively" feat. Kye Brackett on Beatboxxery and M!ke Elam on Trumpetry
Influences
Humbly and heavily under the influence of Paul Simon, Chris Barron, Ty Taylor, Tom Acousti, FRENTE!, Matthew Puckett, The Dirty Sock Funtime Band, John Mayer, Ani DiFranco, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Buckley, The Go-Go's, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Shel Silverstein, The BEATLES, Spider-Man, the Young Ones, Brad, EELS, Bad News, Michael Hedges, Jason Paige, Pink Floyd, Joe Cocker, Steve Vai, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Black Rock City, Freedom Community, Frank Zappa, Gerome Ragni, Jim Rado, Galt McDermott, Jerzy Kosinski, Janis Joplin, Tom O'Horgan, Randy Newman, Dixie Chicks, Martin Scorsese, PT Anderson, Sean Penn, Dean & Dietrich and the Chillbilly Band, the glare from this computer screen, all the girls I've loved before, Hatha Yoga, Stanislavski, Jon Stewart, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Cameron Crowe, the Brothers Grimm, Heart, Led Zep, the Police, Monty Python, Rolling Stones, this sort of liquid-ish thing I found in a vial on East 8th street, Crash Test Dummies, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Frank Sinatra, I.S.S, Buster Hyman and the Penetrators, Aretha Franklin, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Jean Michel Jarre....
Sounds Like
The "happy place" memory you've stored in the recesses of your grey matter for emergency use in times of panic.
Since eons before the dawn of recorded history, benevolent aliens have had their giant eyes on the modest but pretty blue planet of "Earth", saving their alien pennies in hopes of someday renovating it for use as a roller derby themed resort/spa. What they couldn't have planned for, no matter how clairvoyant their enormous noggins were, was that the planet's primordial ooze would coagulate in such a way to create intelligent life, including the volatile human race. In a swift move designed to protect their investment, the crafty aliens created THE MIKE MESSER BAND, so that beautiful music, peaceful melodies, and the language of love would flood the Earth, thereby soothing the otherwise warlike and territorial humans, thus insuring the planet's long and happy life.
So let's learn about these jolly joymakers, thems who present songs which are hand clappable, finger snappable, and solidly unflappable...Like when you grapple with an apple snapple in a chapel.
They are an international summit of fun, Nick from Vermont (The home of maple syrup and the slow cooked Jam) and Mike from Rockland (where all the ROCK comes from) to inhabit both all the boroughs of New York City including Jersey, and the nooks and crannies of your very heart.
They make heart wrenching, booty bumpin, finger poppin love rock Moosick to feed to you as it was fed to them, raised as they were on a steady diet of heavy rock, Jazz, commercial jingles, Klezmer, Funk, fusion, big band, swing, tenor arias, 12 minute drum features that try the patience of even the harshest of practice-room snobs, run-on-sentences, slam poetry, doritos, non-stopera hip-hopera, singer songwriters and songer singwriters, minimalist drones, maximalist guitar solos, 1940's musical theater, adult cinema soundtracks, and department store holiday music. Come to a live show and you may win big big big during the between-song-giveaway, and you may just find true love, as Nick and Mike are actively seeking YOU. But no matter what, the songs are great, the band plays 'em great and somewhere in the course of the evening you'll be tickled to discover that a big ol' smile has found it's way to yer mug. So we hope you'll spend a night with the MIKE MESSER BAND and maybe even take in the concert beforehand. You lucky kid. Don't forget to thank the aliens.
Tears are streaming down my cheecks as I listen to you poetic lully bys which gentle caress my broken heart and strong soul. Thank you for being a healing force across the miles for me tonight. Thank you very very much dear friend. Much Love Lizard Love
Hey Mike! How you been? I think I will be working with you guys again this summer. Me and Adam have been working it out. But yo, if you can try and come to my show this coming sunday - the 25th. Its at The Knitting Factory. All the info is on my page. Thanks. Hope to see you there and speak with you soon.
Hey. I am playing Friday night with my new band, Ghost Hounds at Harvelle’s in Santa Monica. 1432 4th Street (Between Broadway and Santa Monica). We have been locked away in the studio and this one of our first times out to public. Promises to be hard rocking, dirty and sweaty. 8 PM! Be there early because we’re expected to sell out. Looking forward to making music for you and all my people. So much love and life to be had.
Hey, what's up Mike? how you been? Long time no speak. When you get a chance, check out me and my friend's up and coming clothing line named Lethal Inspiration. Just click this link . . .
Ooooh, you tease! Damn! You in SanFran? Two of my favorite things and I can't be there? When will we develop the ability to tesseract so I could just instantly hop over three states??? (And where are our damned Hoverboards by now too?? Pay up, future!)
Hey Mike, my gang and I really enjoyed the tunes you were throwing out there last Friday night. Come join us in Baltimore anytime you please and don't forget to bring the majesty of music with you.
