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lespecial

NY Harvest Fest tix on sale cheap! www.damnsam.com

About Me

lespecial in the Litchfield County Times !
lespecial approaches their live sets with a scat like spirit of spontaneity and improvisation blended with a tight compositional blend of dirtyfunkhop. With their rhythmically driven sounds drawing on influences from all over the musical spectrum, they forge a connection with the audience and create a collective atmosphere.
lespecial is naked talent and ambition, raping everything you thought you knew about music. We’re more fun than a bag of that funny stuff you just paid ten bucks for. Also, physically, we take up more space. We're searching for something new, we don't know what it is yet, but we hope you feel it. lespecial is special. And so are you. Only slightly less, cause you're not in a cool rock band. Or if you are, it's not as cool.
lespecial stickers for sale HERE
Live @ the Knitting Factory, January 4th 2008
Record Release Party, December 26th 2006, Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
w/ Luke Augusta on Clavinet or Guitar
September 30, Pearl Street Night Club, North Hampton, MA
David Rogers on Tenor Sax, photo cred: Ryan Greene

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/7/2005
Band Members: Luke Bemand: Bass/Voice/Percussion

Rory Dolan: Drums/Percussion/Voice

Jonathan Grusauskas: Guitar/Voice/Percussion

Influences: Medeski Martin and Wood, Les Claypool, Hive, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Zappa, Ali Farka Toure, Aesop Rock, Skeletonbreath, Mingus, Miles, King Crimson, Soulive, JoJo Mayer, Milford Graves, STS9, Lettuce, Tom Waits, Umphrey's Mcgee, Tool, Downtown NYC, Battles, Portishead, getting hassled by the man, yuppies taking over greenwich village, 9-5 slavery, Alex Grey, prying open our 3rd eyes
Sounds Like: live @ the Lions Den, NYC

live @ the Lions Den, NYC

Rory's 2nd Annual Birthday Show - Clarke Outdoors, Cornwall CT 7-21-2007

live @ the Webster Theater, Hartford CT (w/ the Breakfast) 5-18-2007

live @ the Webster Theater w/ the Wailers, Hartford CT
lespecial live 01

live @ Sullivan Hall, NYC w/ Eyal Maoz on guitar

Soundcheck at the Morrison Gallery, Kent CT

Live in Connecticut

Record Label: Skinny Al Records: Ask us for a copy of our demo
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NY Harvest Fest. tix on sale cheap! Live @ Sullivan Hall March 15th! w/ the New Mastersounds

hey everyone,those of you who came to NY Harvest Fest. last year know what an amazing time it is, and we plan to roll in with an even bigger crew this year, and to throw some even crazier all night ca...
Posted by lespecial on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:34:00 PST

lespesh @ Lion’s Den, Greenwich Village NYC, Dec 19

upcoming: dec 14 - Bohemian Pizza/Ditto's Litchfield CT dec 19 - Lions Den, 214 Sullivan St. NYC more TBA! check out www.cegmusic.com for info on the lions den
Posted by lespecial on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:43:00 PST

YOUTUBE clip, new recordings up, and show @ Bennington College November 16th!

hey guys, if you were at NY Harvest Fest 2007, check out this video clip and you might see yourself in the crowd...also lookout for a short clip of lespesh playing. If you weren't at Harvest, check i...
Posted by lespecial on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:05:00 PST

May 2007 update, live w/ the Breakfast this friday

whats up guys shout out to dirty hal for comin to see us at "the Acre" in Brimfield Mass last night, wanted to remind all of you; this Friday, May 18th, we're playing at the Webster Theater in Hartf...
Posted by lespecial on Sun, 13 May 2007 02:08:00 PST

lespecial plays with RAQ, the Wood Brothers, Hot Buttered Rum

hey guys, thanks to all of you for supporting us at our Massachussets and Connecticut shows. Keep checking our upcoming show list because more and more dates will come as time goes by. We're really...
Posted by lespecial on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:56:00 PST

lespecial this Friday!

whats up guys, just a reminder, we're playing this Friday at our old high school, Housatonic Valley Regional High School. lots of other bands including: white boy reggae hybrid tea rose the toasted ...
Posted by lespecial on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:07:00 PST

lespecial stickers!

We're getting a bunch of lespecial merch ready, including lighters, t-shirts, stickers, and CDs. We will have some cheaper stickers at shows, but for now check these out: http://www.zazzle.com/product...
Posted by lespecial on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:40:00 PST

thank you for listening!

hey kids, the CD release party went really well, we want to thank everyone for coming out and listening, we had a great time. if you left without a CD, get in touch with us and we'll hook you up. Last...
Posted by lespecial on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:25:00 PST

CD release party! Tuesday Dec. 26

Hey all, so we're finished with recording, and have picked some select tracks out of the culmination of the two recording sessions to be released as our new demo cd. The CD is just called the benningt...
Posted by lespecial on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:12:00 PST

new lespecial CD

yo ya'll lespecial is comin at ya hard with a new cd. we are recording it this weekend (Nov 11/12) in a studio at Bennington College in Vermont. it should be ready to give to the people shortly after ...
Posted by lespecial on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:23:00 PST