Formed in 2007, Medicinal Brew's founders are Sean Leone and Reverend Dan Rouffa, esquire ltd ph.d, guitar and bass, respectively. Two people with simular musical backgrounds and very different playing styles. A combination of funk, progressive rock, blues, and jazzzzzzz. Let it roll off the tongue. Jazzzzzz.
What Sean has to say about himself and The Brew:
After telling myself that there was more in the world than just blues, and for a while that was all that mattered to me, I branched out from my style(s) to infuse what I know with what I don't. Medicinal Brew is everything that I was curious to do in a band and in music, never had the idea's on paper but they were always lingering in the head. The style of guitar I try is a jazz/blues. I try to play pick up an sax lead that I remember or a horn riff with a lot of body. A mixture of Eric Clapton and Jerry Garcia.My influences span a wide variety of music. The past 6 months, "Taste", a club in Orlando that everyone should come too. Still, my late father who was not a musician, but was the catalyst for what I know now and discover when I am done with my trip. Not playing music, I cook, run, play disc golf for leagues and for fun, read about controversies in religion, JFK and other unexplainned things . Enjoying the cigars if and when I have the time, use to brew beer, now I just go to the bar, driving to unknown places.What Dan has to say about himself and The Brew:
Upon receiving my first Nobel Peace Prize for arm-wrestling the reanimated corpse of Mussolini, I decided to take a break from arm-wrestling dead fascists, as I could sense a collapse in the industry not far off the horizon. I turned my attention to accumulating awards and titles, so as to give myself a touch of class, all the while refining my uniquely terrible bass technique, which I dub "Flop". Flop-style bass is different from other styles of playing in that it sounds remarkably similar to a wounded animal trying to swim across a fast-moving river, and drowning.My influences span a wide variety of instruments and musical genres, from Jazz Fusion to Sean Nos (No, that's not a joke against Sean). Non-musical influences include Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Hicks, and beer. When not doing Brewtivities, I enjoy writing, cooking, drinking, starting fires, and coming up with new drink recipes. I'm working on creating an official Medicinal Brew drink as we speak, but it's far from completion. So far, ingredients include whiskey, cream sherry, and an orange twist. It's...alright.