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Evan

Do what you love, Love what you do.

About Me

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Click here to see my new "official" bio I'm pretty neat. Play with For Feather (formerly BELLA), featuring Phil Kester on a marmimba/drumset invention, Erica Glyn on vocals/guitar and David Weintraub on lead guitar. I play the electric bass in The Domestics and upright with David LK Murphy. Played both with Damian Quinones and his bands. Also, sometimes with Curtis Eller. I have played and recorded loads of folks, including the Suit of Lights, Inevitable Breakups, Trouble Dolls, Geneveive and Tom Shaner. I was also a founding member of the Rosenbergs, who I remained with for nine years. Often I have weekly jazz gigs. During the summer I play on many Fridays and Saturdays at the Sweet Cafe by the pond in Central Park, which is by 74th Street and 5th Ave. As much as possible I get together with random awesome musicians to make music. Play bass on people's albums. At their gigs. I play in musicals all over the NY/NJ area. I also play in an orchestra, with a big band and sing tenor in the Choral Society of Grace Church. I have all the time in the world. It's a good idea to really find out what it is you love doing, and then to do it as much as possible.I believe in the power of music!Check out www.evansilverman.comI practice at the Chinese Kung Fu Wusu Association .Check out the music!

My Interests

playing music, kung fu, breathing, sitting, stretching, travelling, reading, walking, movies, sushi, listening to music, going to Paris, coffee shops, the bass, making love, working to free Tibet, the beach, touring

I'd like to meet:

adventurous troublemakers.
Click here to see past shows

Date Time Performing with Place Details
5.15.08 9pm Todd Carlstrom
& TheClamour The Rose
Brooklyn,NJ BOOG CITY cd covers show. Playing lastsong off Ziggy Stardust & first two from OK Computer
5.17.08 8pm For Feather The Rose
Brooklyn,NJ Fun gig
5.21.08 7:15 Playing jazz
behindcomedians TBA "Readings with Music." Hosted by LiamMcEneany
6.19.08 8pm David LK Murphy Banjo Jims On Avenue C
6.23.08 6pm Jazz Trio TBA
New York, NY Private Party

Music:

Ahmad Jamal, Albert Ayler, bach, beastie boys, bebop, beethoven, Biff Rose, bill evans, billie holiday, black flag, bob dylan, Bob Marley, brad meldhau, Bright Eyes brahms, cameron brown, charles mingus, The Clash, classical, crowded house, current 93, david crosby, david holland, Dead Kennedys, the domestics, don cherry, downtempo, drew gress, elliott smith, flaming lips, fly, frank zappa, francois rabbath, fugazi, gary peacock, guster, jaco pastorius, jazz, john coltrane, john lennon, joni mitchell, kahimi kari, keith jarrett, leonard cohen, mccoy tyner, miles davis, the misfits, mozart, nicholas walker, N.W.A., of montreal, Ornette Coleman, opera, orchestra, power pop, prince, prokofiev, ray brown, ron carter, rufus reid, rufus wainright, sloan, sonny rollins, stolen shack, suit of lights, Taraf de Haidouks, Teenage Fanclub, the domestics, the old nationals, the shins, the swans, thelonious monk, tom waits, verdi

Movies:

Anything Woody Allen, Amelie, Akira Kurosawa, Fight Club, Everything is Illuminated, The Jerk, Shaolin Temple

Television:

South Park, Family Guy, The State, Curb Your Enthusiam

Books:

Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut, Yukio Mishima, Demian, The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse, Dharma Punx, Jack Gilbert, Charles Simic, Pablo Neruda, Hubert Selby Jr., The Fuck-Up, David Eggers, Great Expectations, Dostoyevsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky, William S. Burroughs, Philip Roth, The Dalai Lama, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, Kobo Abe, The Artists Way, Black Like Me, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Heroes:

at various times of my life: Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Jack Kerouac, Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, the Dalai Lama, Malcolm X

My Blog

Great show in Brooklyn tomorrow evening...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Now that you're back to having no plans, might I suggest making one for tomorrow evening?  For Feather will be playing, opening up for ex-Domestics lead guitarist Todd Carlstrom'...
Posted by Evan on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:39:00 PST

hello from DC

so, I'm in Washington DC now. Visiting some old friends. Trying out this myspace mobile business. It ain't very good!!
Posted by Evan on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:49:00 PST

Life, as of now

Things seem to be going well. As of now.A day of listening to Tom Waits. Happy feelings on a lot of fronts.Reading books by the Bukowski of Cuba, Pedro Juan Gutierrez. And also, The Secret, which was ...
Posted by Evan on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:53:00 PST

US for Iran

This is what it looks like to me:US: "We fu**ed up. Ooops. You're not making nuclear weapons and have been honest. As for the sanctions, the harsh words...oh well."Iran: "Oh well?!?! Opps?!?!  Th...
Posted by Evan on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:05:00 PST

food label reading, & other articles

My friend Andrea Beaman has a lot of great food related stories here. The latest one, about how to read food labels, is especially informative. Check them out! http://www.andreabeaman.com/monthly...
Posted by Evan on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:52:00 PST

This Thursday! Free gig at Nublu!!

Hi!  I just got back from 10 days in and around Jamaica...sheesh, it's freezing here!!  Please come on down. It's our first time at this awesome place to play music. We'll be playing two se...
Posted by Evan on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:59:00 PST

Fire

I was thinking the other other, in response to a tiff I had with someone.  "You can't light a match and make a flame, and then be upset when the flame burns you."
Posted by Evan on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:49:00 PST

holy s--t

Is exactly what I just said when I looked out the window. Lots of snow! And it's my agreement with my landlady that I'm the one who will do all the shovelling. So, I've got to rush because I've also g...
Posted by Evan on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:48:00 PST

Bukowski a Nazi Sympathizer?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/11/29/bukowski.house.a p/index.html?iref=mpstoryviewSay it ain't so!  I don't think he was, though.......
Posted by Evan on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:50:00 PST

ugh

Complain complain complain. I have three ear infections. two in one ear, one in the other. so annoying. andddddddddd my back hurts from the flight back, which means i can't return to kung fu tonight. ...
Posted by Evan on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:59:00 PST