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The Mike Messer Band

Do you wanna just watch for all of your life?

About Me


Since eons before the dawn of recorded history, benevolent aliens have had their giant eyes on the modest but pretty blue planet of "Earth", saving their alien pennies in hopes of someday renovating it for use as a roller derby themed resort/spa. What they couldn't have planned for, no matter how clairvoyant their enormous noggins were, was that the planet's primordial ooze would coagulate in such a way to create intelligent life, including the volatile human race. In a swift move designed to protect their investment, the crafty aliens created THE MIKE MESSER BAND, so that beautiful music, peaceful melodies, and the language of love would flood the Earth, thereby soothing the otherwise warlike and territorial humans, thus insuring the planet's long and happy life.
So let's learn about these jolly joymakers, thems who present songs which are hand clappable, finger snappable, and solidly unflappable...Like when you grapple with an apple snapple in a chapel.
They are an international summit of fun, Nick from Vermont (The home of maple syrup and the slow cooked Jam) and Mike from Rockland (where all the ROCK comes from) to inhabit both all the boroughs of New York City including Jersey, and the nooks and crannies of your very heart.
They make heart wrenching, booty bumpin, finger poppin love rock Moosick to feed to you as it was fed to them, raised as they were on a steady diet of heavy rock, Jazz, commercial jingles, Klezmer, Funk, fusion, big band, swing, tenor arias, 12 minute drum features that try the patience of even the harshest of practice-room snobs, run-on-sentences, slam poetry, doritos, non-stopera hip-hopera, singer songwriters and songer singwriters, minimalist drones, maximalist guitar solos, 1940's musical theater, adult cinema soundtracks, and department store holiday music.
Come to a live show and you may win big big big during the between-song-giveaway, and you may just find true love, as Nick and Mike are actively seeking YOU. But no matter what, the songs are great, the band plays 'em great and somewhere in the course of the evening you'll be tickled to discover that a big ol' smile has found it's way to yer mug.
So we hope you'll spend a night with the MIKE MESSER BAND and maybe even take in the concert beforehand. You lucky kid. Don't forget to thank the aliens.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/25/2007
Band Website: Yer lookin at it, Buddy
Band Members:

Mike Messer - Mad love, happy love, all love. Plus guitar and voice.
Nicholas Cassarino - Bass, Guitar, Vox, lower chakra power
Matt Bogdano - Drums

LIVE at Boom Boom Room 3-22-08 "Exclusively" feat. Kye Brackett on Beatboxxery and M!ke Elam on Trumpetry
Influences: Humbly and heavily under the influence of Paul Simon, Chris Barron, Ty Taylor, Tom Acousti, FRENTE!, Matthew Puckett, The Dirty Sock Funtime Band, John Mayer, Ani DiFranco, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Buckley, The Go-Go's, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Shel Silverstein, The BEATLES, Spider-Man, the Young Ones, Brad, EELS, Bad News, Michael Hedges, Jason Paige, Pink Floyd, Joe Cocker, Steve Vai, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Black Rock City, Freedom Community, Frank Zappa, Gerome Ragni, Jim Rado, Galt McDermott, Jerzy Kosinski, Janis Joplin, Tom O'Horgan, Randy Newman, Dixie Chicks, Martin Scorsese, PT Anderson, Sean Penn, Dean & Dietrich and the Chillbilly Band, the glare from this computer screen, all the girls I've loved before, Hatha Yoga, Stanislavski, Jon Stewart, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Cameron Crowe, the Brothers Grimm, Heart, Led Zep, the Police, Monty Python, Rolling Stones, this sort of liquid-ish thing I found in a vial on East 8th street, Crash Test Dummies, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Frank Sinatra, I.S.S, Buster Hyman and the Penetrators, Aretha Franklin, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Jean Michel Jarre....
Sounds Like: The "happy place" memory you've stored in the recesses of your grey matter for emergency use in times of panic.
Record Label: They haven't made a label big enough to hold us.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

On Music

Gigs are ... always a challenge and a gateway to grace. I am shown my place. I know that music makes me home - but not all notes in a row are music. When sound becomes music you know it, and it's a pu...
Posted by The Mike Messer Band on Tue, 08 May 2007 08:26:00 PST

The Beast that ate 80 Enchilladas

'Sup everyone... well we just got back from the first group MEDTICKETS mini tour of the Philly area... And I just gotta gush on the glorious good guys I was gifted with... these giant geniuses of gent...
Posted by The Mike Messer Band on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:01:00 PST