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About Me

Roll the video below and revel in the band’s 1991 appearance on the legendary Jersey-based Uncle Floyd Show!
Thanks to Pat for uncovering this gem and making it available to us.
Please visit Pat’s most excellent YouTube page for more Uncle Floyd Shows and other assorted goodies...

Begun in 1986 in Amherst, Massachusetts, The Vestrymen spread their folk-fringed powerpop - often psychedelicised - via the airwaves of college and independent radio. After several independent releases - and lots of miles in vans and pick-up trucks - the band retired from active duty in 1994. But it actually never ends, does it? DOES IT?

More Vestrymen songs can be heard over at OurStage.com

And of course you ought to visit The Ruby Ranch: The Official Vestrymen Homepage

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/19/2006
Band Website: davicci.com/vestry/
Band Members: Matt Davis, Andy Boose, Timo Lipping, Chris Weinberg, Billy Donohue, John Boose, Jeff Colby.
Influences: Bobo, The Beatles, The Kinks, XTC, Big Star, The Beach Boys, the riff in "Siberian Khatru," Cheap Trick, Let's Active, SquareAmerica.com , Game Theory, The Blases, R.E.M., The Flamin' Groovies, Echo & The Bunnymen, The dBs, Ramblin' Anne Bidner, Iron Elf's basement jams, The Feelies, Miracle Legion, Sioux Falls, Chuck Arnold, Dumptruck, the basement of Sheehan's, Paul Q. Kolderie, Bay Road, Jude and her big green Cadillac convertible, Thanks to Robert Brown, Mark Alan Miller, Rapture of the Deep, The Last To Go, quarrying, Steve Maggs, Hot Cop, downstairs at Pearl Street, Uncle Floyd, Slang Syndrome, Chris Dixon, Byron Coley, Traci Swartz, Brad Morrison, Johnny Sunday, the Bay State, S. Sheps, Frosty Horton, Bob Humphreys, Deep South Amherst, John Goldberger, corn beef hash at The Roadhouse on Route 9, awaking to fire and ice.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

PLAYLIST: Rocktober 2008

You're encouraged to have a spin of our first MySpace playlist compilation: ROCKTOBER 2008! (It can be found via the "Featured Playlist" drop-down menu on our music player.)"Rocktober 2008" celebrates...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:55:00 PST

A New Song From Matt

A warts-and-all live recording of a new song, "Super-High Moon," is up on the Saturday Afternoon Song Swap's myspace page:http://www.myspace.com/saturdayafternoonsongswapIt's the 6th and final song in...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:37:00 PST

PSA Vestry-style

We're a bunch of pinko hippies, so you should expect this kind of Hollywood-fueled, leftist drivel from us... Watch away: Love, Los Hombres Vestrinos...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:04:00 PST

Matt @ Saturday Afternoon Song Swap, Cafe Meow, Maplewood, NJ

Click here to view detailsI am thrilled to be playing the Song Swap in Maplewood, NJ, again this Saturday. (Thanks Tony! Deena! Rebecca!) It's a late afternoon thing so you need not miss those waning ...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:03:00 PST

"24 Spicy Moon"

Hmmmm well... Where to start or not start? This is a song that began as a title. Chris spent some time in Japan - I think researching some obscure statistical data on the recording of AT BUDOKAN? - an...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:17:00 PST

Matt @ Saturday Afternoon Song Swap - AUDIO ADDED!

UPDATE: The nice people at the Saturday Afternoon Song Swap added a live recording of one of the songs I played - a new song called "Gone To Stay." Please visit and listen - it's the song in the playe...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Mon, 05 May 2008 03:10:00 PST

"First"

I stumbled across this picture yesterday, in with its mates in the proverbial box. I thought that it was gone forever, but I still had the song I wrote about it. So that was fine. But there it was. It...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:42:00 PST

"Never Did Too Well"

"Never Did Too Well" was written in 1988 or 1989 and first appeared on our 1990 LP/cassette. A sprightly tempo and "woodsy" acoustic strumming bubbling beneath bittersweet lyrics (it's right there in ...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:46:00 PST

"3 Kings"

"3 Kings" led off RUBY RANCH MEETS THE PLASTIC HASSLE in frantic fashion. Some large debt is owed to Scott Miller of Game Theory who was once heard to mutter "She don't hold that card anymore" in refe...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:50:00 PST

KDHX Radio in St. Louis

Last Thursday, old Vestryfriend Brett Underwood filled in for KDHX DJ Darren Snow who was feeling a tad under the weather. Brett's variegated morning-drive-time set featured a little Vestrymen music i...
Posted by The Vestrymen on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:45:00 PST