Member Since: 2/19/2006
Band Website: this is it...breath deep
Band Members: jeff URSIDAE rickels- djembe, percussions, vox....
tim SNAKE VENOM hall- drum kitz....
mike DON MIGUEL felger- bass, gitz, melodica, vox....
alex SMALL AX dubaworth- piano, organ, melodica, vox....
brian THE BRAIN gilronan- saxaphone, vox....
just j dubaworth- gitz, bass, vox
Influences: STEEL PULSE (quite possibly my gods)...augustus pablo, homesick james, h-bomb ferguson, robert johnson, toots and the maytals, jackie mittoo, the slickers, the agrovators, Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters, Culture, The Revolutionaries, Black Uhuru, Tom Waits, Thelonius Monk, NIN, Leftover Crack/Choking Victim/Morning Glory etc, King Tubby, Dizzy Gillepsie, Fatal Feathers, Hank Williams (the FIRST!), BMW, the ROOTS, Percy Sledge, Otis Redding, Burning Spear, Coltrane, three6 mafia, skatalites (and any derivation of the Llyods, Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso, Ernst Ranglin, etc) desmond dekker, naseua, Dead Prez, Shakira (lord 'a mercy), Charlie Parker, Black Sabbath, jonny cash, the backseat drivers, gto, Fugees, the slackers, ari up, madness, rancid, keith frank, chris ardoin, the melodians, the heptones, the specials, don drummond
Sounds Like: a smokey ska rocksteady reggae dub party...filtered through old jazz and soul, delta blues, old timey country and saucy zydeco, funk and punk, industrial and hip hop...political and personal...from the city streets to the hills and hollars...
Record Label: The Jambalaya Recording Co. of Newport Kentucky
Type of Label: Indie