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Elbo Room

"You'll laugh, you'll cry...you'll soil yourself!"

About Me



"Tied for 800,000,000,067th for Billboards 'Top 1 Billion Bands of All Time'....".... Born out of the need to thumb their collective noses at the Jazz Facists of Academia and prove that it is indeed possible to laugh and have a good time at a Jazz show, and not feel like feel like one is earning Liberal Arts credit for listening....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/29/2007
Band Members: Band Members: Todd: 8-string- ERIC (UNCLE BERNIE) BERNHARDT: Soprano/Alto sax- EVERETT (CHILL) CENCICH: Tenor sax- MARK (HUGGY) HALBERSTADT: Baritone sax- JACK (THE PIRATE) GARGAN: Drums- THE REVEREND ARILICIOUS RUBENSTEIN: Em-Cee-// DANIELLE REUTTER: Vocals- "the ELBETTES"-- MOLLY KITTLE & RACHEL BOUTON-- OTHERS:(Monica's Strut) Mike (Go-Go) Gomez: Sop. Sax--Jordan Carls: Alto--Alan Hunt:T-bone--Johnny Schmidt: Drums----- Jenna Talia: Em-cee///CANDICE LEDFORD and SARAH JOELLE-HOFFENBERG: Vocals--
Influences:
Sounds Like: any jazz funk group with an 8-string, drums, 3 horns, a female vocalist, 2 female background singers and an em-cee......we sound just like them....
Record Label: Do they even make Records anymore?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

2 New Songs Uploaded

After many requests to hear some of the vocalists, we've uploaded our take on an old classic...which features Candice (Dice) Ledford and Uncle Bernnie on vocals. Also, a frequent question asked is; "d...
Posted by Elbo Room on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:56:00 PST

For All Funkophiles

check out this page:  http://www.myspace.com/getfunkedradio for all those needin a Soul Vaccination against the dreaded "Honky-Pox".... In fact, you might hear Elbo Room with ...
Posted by Elbo Room on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:01:00 PST

3 New Full Length Recordings!!!

Coming soon 2 live CD's; Wicked Chowdah and Fat City as well as  Run, Catch...Kiss studio recording will be available for on-line purchase. Each CD will be $10 plus S&H. In addition...
Posted by Elbo Room on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:37:00 PST

What is Elbo Room????

It's all mine!! When the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music accepted my 8-string as a primary instrument, they weren't sure where to to put me. Finally after 2 quarters...and a lot of bitch...
Posted by Elbo Room on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:28:00 PST

The 8-string

Most who listen hear an average bass player, and a slightly below average guitar player, which I am...but I do them at the same time. The 8-string, invented by Charlie Hunter, and built by Novax, is 3...
Posted by Elbo Room on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:17:00 PST