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...first gig was the Battle of the Bands,” said Scheuer, lead singer. Scheuer said that at Springfest, Diaco will play both guitarist Diaco’s creations and covers influenced by bands from Frank Zappa to Phish to Bon Jovi...
After two albums, three EP’s, a handful of film and television soundtracks and tours with Phish, the Grateful Dead and Dave Matthews, the group decided to take some time off. During the hiatus, most members pursued other musical ventures. Liz Berlin, Glabicki and Jenn Wenz embarked on solo endeavors while other members joined different bands. When they reunited and began working on Welcome to My Party, band members had clearer heads, more diverse musical experience and a commitment to focus on the essence of their new songs...
...interspersed DJ scratches and rapping with heavy guitars on their hit song "Sabotage." By the turn of the century, both tricks were de rigeur among hard rock bands (to say nothing of the industrial bands that had been mixing synthesizers and samples with metal riffs since the Enlightenment). Only Phish would dispute that odd time signatures ceased to be fresh at some point during a King Crimson concert...
Wrapping around the block, the mainly nine-to-five, thirty-something crowd entered Avalon to the Phish-meets-Blind Melon-meets-the Pogues sound of opening band Carbon Leaf. Carbon Leaf are the only unsigned band ever to perform at the American Music Awards, where they won an award for Best New Music, beating out some 1,000 other bands. Featuring among other things a mandolin and several tin whistles, the group is obviously influenced by Great Big Sea and they were a fitting and exhilerating opening band, whetting the crowd’s appetite. By the time lead singer...
...Still theoretically the brains behind Primus, Claypool, last seen playing Colonel to his Amazing Flying Frog Brigade, has formed yet another side project. It is a little as though someone is playing fantasy football with musicians: How else would you get Stewart Copeland, the drummer from the Police, head-Phish Trey Anastasio and jack-of-all-bands Les Claypool on the same album...