Member Since: 9/7/2006
Band Website: thetadcasters.com
Band Members: Bill Littleford - Guitar, Vocals
Nick LaBoffe - Mandolin, Vocals
Matt Wiesenhahn - Banjo, Vocals
Influences: Bill Littleford:John McLaughlin, Wes, Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson, Hendrix, Django, Vassar Clements, Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Norman Blake, JJ Cale, Hank Sr., Grisman, Cream, the three Kings-Albert, BB, and Freddie, Son House, Chet, Cal Collins, Weather Report, Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, Chuck Norris, Miles, Coltrane, Robert Johnson, Bill Monroe, Merle Travis, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airman, Allman Bros., Charlie Parker, Monk, Tony Iommi, Rodney Dangerfield, Jimmy Barnet, The Meters, "that's Herbie Hancock," Grant Green, Cash, Max Weber, Goffman, the farley Brothers, my old student Otis Sutton who taught me more about the blues than anyone else cause he was there, and my brother Robert for introducing me to so much music and teaching me about tonal center, which you know is kind of important
Nick LaBoffe: Django, The Grateful Dead, Blll Monroe, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, David Grisman, David Grisman Quintet, Tony Rice, B.B. King, Fats Waller, Sam Bush, String Cheese Incident, Willie Nelson, Vasser Clements, Jerry Garcia, Earl Scruggs, Phish, Nickel Creek, ChrisNi Thile, Jerry Douglas, Old and In the Way
Matt Wiesenhahn: Earl Scruggs, Jerry Garcia, Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Nickel Creek, The Greatful Dead, Yonder Mountain String Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Allison Brown, Chathem County Line, Old and In The Way..
Sounds Like: We sound like a jazzy bluegrass band. We play our originals and most of the bluegrass standards and different country and blues tunes we like. Basically we have a hell of a good time live; we improvise, we change things around, we never play a song the same way twice. We don't really sound like anyone in particular but we are very much influenced by Grisman, Tony Rice, all the new grass stuff, and the legends of bluegrass.
Record Label: Not yet signed records co.
Type of Label: None