Justin Achziger - Drums & Vocals
Dan Marcus - Guitars & Vocals
Dennis Moore - Guitars & Vocals
Matt Yates - Bass & Vocals
Influences
Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Outkast, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Galactic, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Guns & Roses, The Beastie Boys, Funkadelic, Gram Parsons, Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden, Neil Young, NWA, Pink Floyd, Sly & the Family Stone, the Meters, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Crosby Stills & Nash, Janes Addiction, Aerosmith.
Sounds Like
The Band, Little Feat, the Black Crowes, the Rolling Stones, My Morning Jacket, Blind Melon, Wilco, Nirvana, the Grateful Dead, Humble Pie, Kings of Leon, Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd.
Though the Swamees are firmly rooted in San Francisco, their music sounds as if it drifted off some Louisiana swampland. The band mixes greasy chicken-shack funk with folk subtlety and country swagger in a pig iron cauldron of molten rock psychedelia. It's a gumbo that pays homage to the traditions of American music while subverting them as much as possible.
The Swamees are JUSTIN ACHZIGER on drums and vocals, DAN MARCUS on lead guitar and vocals, DENNIS MOORE on rhythm guitar and vocals, and MATT YATES on bass and vocals. The tribal intensity of the rhythm section lays a solid foundation for the rich vocal harmonies and incendiary guitar work. The Swamees aren't a jamband per se but at times the raw emotion of these four individuals simply cannot be contained in the three minute song format. The resulting convergence is a long, drawn out musical landscape that stretches from the brutal to the serene and all places in between.
Its pretty funny when you can buy a couple boxes of girlscout cookies for $3 and then later that night sell them to drunk patrons for $5 a box. We'll get in the studio faster than I thought we would! -Brandon
If you are partying in downtown Baltimore for Halloween, we are playing with Fools and Horses at The Quarter. Costume party and the whole 9. Best part about Halloween is its the only time of year Guys are allowed to stare at chicks outside of a strip club! Lucky us!
Hey, guys! I'm playing a show with KFOG Local Scene Volume VI artist Mike Gibbons at Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco this Friday, August 21st! Tickets are $8.00 in advance at http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2419994&pl=reddevil or $10.00 at the door. Come on out and support some local music! It would be great to see ya there. Doors open at 9:00pm. Music starts at 9:30pm. Thanks!
Thank you for your contribution to us, through your participation in KFOG's Local Scene CD! Awesome that you're supporting music education for all, and we promise to spend the money wisely! ;-)
REMINDER: MUSHROOM TONIGHT @ THE STARRY PLOUGH
Thursday December 13th @ 9:00 PM MUSHROOM with EDDIE GALE
LIVE! at the STARRY PLOUGH
3101 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
(510) 841-2082
This specially compiled 4 CD Box Set from Time Life features the best Folk Rock songs from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s! Includes 71 Songs That Defined An Era and Influenced Generations... In Stores September 11
Not just another genre, folk rock was born as a statement—of purpose, of taste, of superiority—the baby boom’s first imprimatur, a musical mission and a personal battle cry in a divisive time of racial tension and escalating war. For a generation of philosopher dropouts and drug-inspired visionaries, it was also the best way to partake in the era’s hippest form of artistic expression, in numbers previously unknown to man.
hey, thanks for the add! how did you first come to hear our music? have you seen us live?
if you want more of our music, we have podcasts, videos, and 5 live soundboard recordings available for free download on the music page of our website.
in addition, we have posted an ecard with music and video from our new CD & DVD.
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You can catch us live this month @ The Millcreek Tavern in Philadelphia, PA on 5/29/07 with GUT(Germany), Goretex, Total Fucking Destruction, Strawbary and Age of Plague
