Osei Essed (Voice, Guitar, Banjo, Banjo-Mandolin) - Cicero Jones (Organ, French Horn, Rhodes, Voice) - Joe Keady (Tuba) - Andrew Platt (Upright Bass) - Charlie Burnham (Violin) - Mike Irwin (Trumpet) - Maria Eisen (Baritone/Alto Sax) - Joe Salvati (Drums)- -Dan Romer (Accordion/Stomping/Singing) - Ronen Ben (Accordion, Harmonica) - Adam Christgau (Drums) - Chris Kuffner (Electric Bass) - Philip Sterk (Pedal Steel), Algernon Quashie (Drums, voice), Andrew Hadro (Baritone Saxophone), Andrae Murcheson (Trombone), Chris Kuffner (if its got strings), Emma Mae (voice), Kate Mikulak (voice), Jesse Lauter (voice, percussion), Seth Faulk (Drums), Jeff Ratner (bass) and some more folks too...
Influences
doc boggs, mississippi john hurt, john fahey, john frusciante, howling wolf, charlie patton, polly jean harvey, ma rainey, bessie jones, billie holiday, memphis minnie, kurt weill, stravinsky, the jesus lizard, rl burnside, slayer, can, johnny cash, bob dylan, alan watts, albert ayler, bad brains, edith piaf, hank williams sr., fugazi, jeru, woody, charlie poole, blind joe taggard, Talking Heads, Prince, Tom Waits, Rev. Blind Gary Davis,willie nelson, hoagy carmichael, ray charles, sam cooke MUSIC MUSIC MUSICMUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC , necro, the mistfits, the dead kennedys, black flag, chet baker, MUSIC MUSIC MUSICMMUSIC!!!!
There are a lot of us. Like thirty. We play with groups of up to twenty people, mostly just groups of seven to thirteen. We sound like an idea. Below are some descriptions of things we might remind you of while you are listening to us. Our records are good, our live show is also good - we know how to have fun.
Descriptive words: sunset through your backyard windows, the labels on good whisky bottles, potion laboratories filled with vials and strangely shaped bottles in an old book or black and white film, a street musician on some Southern Street before there was radio on a Saturday afternoon with the too hot sun, kids and everyone gathered around - singing louder than the other musicians vying for a crowd. The great depression, dustbowl, aviator sunglasses,american sedans of the 1950's european race cars of the early 1960's,fracas, anarchy and a conversation with Marcel Duchamps, a Slayer show, a Fugazi show, people dancing slow and quiet, all stories written on paper by Flann O'Brien, riding horses at sunup, the TV Show Carnivale, the TV Show Deadwood, the TV Show Twin Peaks, laughter with large groups of people, spencer tunic photographs, laughing at ones body, the fog one feels on the heels of a four day bender, too much gin without the vomiting. limes, fresh cut flowers, smoking weed, driving too fast, grade school yard fights, thinking that you're understanding what's what when the sun goes down.
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Get a babysitter, peoples...
...because Rock & Roll Burlesque is back on the scene this weekend and then we'll be gone again until August 13th.
Monday, July 6th at The Slipper Room
167 Orchard Street at the Corner of Stanton on Manhattan's Lower East Side
Doors at 8.00, Show at 8.30. $5 cover
with Clams Casino, Darlinda Just Darlinda and Miss Saturn!
Full 7 piece band featuring
Sean "Baby Boy" Dixon on the Drums
Mary "Freakin'" Feaster on the Electric Bass Guitar
Viva "Guitar Viva" on Guitar and Singing
Chuck "The Mac" MacKinnan on Trumpet
Matt Moon on Saxophone
David Gibson on the Trombone &
Matt Katz-Bohen on the Synths and Sounds
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Viva
www.electricviva.com
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I'd say it's about time we played a song or two for you
I bet you'd love to know we're playing tomorrow june 3rd!
9:00 PM at Public Assembly
70 N. 6th street, Brooklyn, New York
We'd love to make some friends <3
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