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Filling Space

About Me


We are an eclectic three piece band out of Iowa City, IA consisting of drums, guitar, and bass. We have been playing together for the better of 5 years, which has really given us time to mesh our sound and our influences. Although we have been playing with keyboards for the past couple years we are now playing as a power three piece and working vigorously on our new sound, re-working older songs to fit into the new groove, as well as writing and recording. So far we only play in the mid-west headlining and opening in different clubs, venues, and bars. We have opened for New Monsoon, Cornmeal, Family Groove Company, Drums and Tuba, The Hackensaw Boys, Aswah Greggori, Wookie Foot, and Swivel Hips Smith, as well as enjoying stage time with a number of local bands and musicians. The Filling Space sound can be described as a dense, lush sound with driving rythms and explosive, boisterous climaxes. Filling Space has a little something for everyone as we play an inclusive variety of music blending motifs from "Jam" band sound to bluegrass, dance, rock, country, funk, indie, punk, blues, and jazz all of which reflect the different musical personalities of each member. We blend structured meat-and-potatoes organic songcraft with complex, frenzied, emotive, improvisational jams creating a musical matrix where everyone is filling spaceFeel free to e-mail us with any questions or comments at [email protected] ***FS***


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Member Since: 27/06/2007
Band Members: Lance Gruhn-vocals, harmonica, percussion
Greg Winkel-vocals, bass
Sean Quinn-vocals, guitar


Influences: A.D.D., The Universe, Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Old Crow Medicine Show, Frank Zappa, NOFX, Bright Eyes, Jimmy Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Chili Peppers, Blind Melon, Willie Nelson, Government Mule, Joey DeFrancesco, Pat Metheny, Ween, Derek Trucks Band, Primus, Widespread Panic, Moe., Phish, Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain, All world and traditional music, the Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Classical, Folk, and any other genre that we've forgotten to mention...this list could go on forever
Sounds Like: A yetti, the lochness monster, a centaur, and a mermaid frolicking in a solar nebula on the outskirts of Willow's village
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Man down

Our wonderfully talented drummer [Lance] has decided he would like to place his hand into fire and severely burn himself.  On account of this catastrophic accident trying to put out the Al Qaeda ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:43:00 GMT

PLAYING SHOWS

Howdy spacefillers we are gettin back to doing some gigging...feel free to drop us a line if you have any show ideas...We will be posting all of our upcoming shows on our myspace...so keep a look out....
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:54:00 GMT