Member Since: 27/04/2006
Band Website: STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Band Members: The band members, who insist that they first met while training to be astronauts at an undisclosed location near the Meadowlands, are as follows:
Eddie Logue (percussion of various sorts)
Gil Shuster (bass and role model for children)
Kenny Young (acoustic guitar and vocals)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact us directly at [email protected]
UK Bookings - contact John Barrow, Stoneyport Associates at [email protected]
Influences: Velvet Underground; Curtis Mayfield; The Ramones; Bootsy Collins; Parliament-Funkadelic; Tom Robinson; Devo; Violent Femmes; Jonathan Richman; Monty Python's Flying Circus; The Monkees; Frank Zappa; Futurama; The Simpsons; Dr. Seuss; Warren Zevon; The Kinks; T-Rex; Stevie Wonder; Queen; Toots & the Maytals; Patti Smith; Bob Marley & the Wailers; Rolling Stones; Tito Puente; Neil Young; Santana; The Clash; Run-DMC; Life in a Blender; They Might Be Giants; The Funk Brothers; Stax Records; Motown; Sun Records; James Brown; Bo Diddley; Little Richard; The Beach Boys; Chuck Berry; Ray Charles and so many more ...
The Eggplants have also met many very nice, very talented, musicians ... who sound absolutely nothing like the Eggplants. But they are all worth checking out. Here are some of them: The Big Buzzard Boogie Band, Rebecca Hollweg, Andy Hamill, Stekpanna, Sudden Death, Ookla the Mok, Love Camp 7, Rebecca Turner.
Sounds Like: Various attempts to define their music have been made, but perhaps the most entertaining quote comes from the New York Times, which said that the Eggplants give eloquent voice to the multifaceted neuroses of prolonged adolescence. In the U.K., the Sunday Herald (Glasgow) said the Eggplants mix the wit of Jonathan Richman with the sound of the Nico-era Velvets to create a surreal and satirical gumbo. They have also been called a deeply eccentric pop band (The Guardian), and a wonderful weird band (The Scotsman). The Village Voice said The naivete Kenny wears on his sleeve is genuine - think of an East Village Brian Wilson, without the money but still tilted in his own wacked-out way.
Overall, the following artists seem to get mentioned the most when people are struggling to describe the Eggplants: They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Jonathan Richman, Frank Zappa.
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Record Label: Cheese Thing Records / Coney Island Records
Type of Label: Indie