About Me
This is taken from our website, circa 1998."Hailing from St. Louis, Phat N' A. Kan is currently a 7 peice untraditional ska band. From funk to punk to hardcore ska, the band has come far from playing Reel Big Fish and Sublime covers to writing, playing and producing there own demo's. Back in the summer of 97, Phat front men Brett Martin(vocals) and Jeff Diebel(guitar) came up with the idea of starting a ska band. Soon to follow was the always loud, always funny Adam Kinney(drums). While sitting in their dorm room at marching band camp, Brett and Adam came up with the name Phat N'A. Kan. Later Bryan "Bink" Davidson(bass) and Matt Strauman(trumpet) joined in on the fun. After some practice they gained a new trumpet player Paul Trupka(strauman move to T-Bone). Their first show was at a party in Paul's girlfriends basement, and it was pretty lame! Soon after Strauman caught wind that the band wanted to kick him out (he couldn't play T-Bone) he left. Joining the ranks soon after Chris Fundakowski(sax) and the almighty Dr. K. (T-Bone). After a lot of practice and a lot of lame parties, Phat N'A. Kan was ready to play a real show at St. Johns! May 1st, 1998 the band debuted there 8 songs of wonder for a sellout crowd. Soon after a recording oppertunity came up that Brett and Adam couldn't pass up on. Recorded in Eric Peterson's basement, their 8 song demo was a hit (for those who actually got it!) With show's at Sassafras, and a show with Georgia's own Skadaddles. Sadly though, Paul, Bryan and Dr. K. had to go to college. BUT DON'T WORRY!!! Their replacements weren't hard to find, Jared(trumpet), BOZ!!!!(bass) and Corolla Lola(T-Bone) joined the ranks. Recording one new song and remixing a cover, and playing a show at The West household. Soon After, We got to working on a 13 song power set and started to refine them. Our big debut for the New material was Jan. 15, 1999 at St. Johns. Our Record Label presidents band opened up for us, and so did Five across The Face. The show was amazing, we had over 300 people show up! After that we played The Mr. LHS for our school and got more fans. Sadly though, Boz left the band, without hard feelings, we have yet to find a bass player, but I think we can manage. After that, PHAT and Super-J Records decided it was time to put our first release, "Horn'z Aint Cool!", on CD. THE CD COMPANY DICKED US OVER THOUGH! And we don't have those CD's at this time:-( But good news! We have decided to go back into the studio to record our new songs for our new CD, "Rock On Lowell!"
