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5 Chinese Brothers

About Me



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5 Chinese Brothers began life as The Special Guests, a collection of college buddies dedicated to playing great bar band music. At first an all-cover band, the Special Guests morphed into an originals band that blended 12-bar rock, R&B, and country. Numerous personnel changes eventually suggested a name change was in order. The band was The Bugs for one gig, then received a cease-and-desist order from The Bugs of San Francisco. A drunken pow-wow resulted in the unfortunate selection of the name 5 Chinese Brothers, evoking scowls from Chinese audience members and from those expecting an REM cover band. Nonetheless the band persisted through 4 albums and numerous tours that took it to 34 states, 5 foreign nations, and several expulsions from Canada. 5 Chinese Brothers threw in the towel in early 1999 but they'd be willing to play a reunion show just for you, if the price was right.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/9/2006
Band Website: http://www.fiftyfiftymusic.com/5cb.htm
Band Members: Steve Antonakos--lead guitar, 1995-1999 Pete DeMeo--drums, 1996-1999 Paul Foglino--bass Dave Helberg--drums, 1984-when he quit Tom Meltzer, guitar, lead vocals Charlie Shaw--drums, ??-1996 Neil Thomas--keyboards Kevin Trainor--lead guitar, 1986-1995Honorary Chinese Brothers include: Mark Ettinger, keyboards; Wally Griffith, guitar; David Hamburger, guitar and dobro; Mike Azerrad, drums; Mark Horn, drums; Steve Greenfield, saxophone; Jennifer Collins, saxophone
Influences: Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Little Eva, Claudine Clark, Das Hoders, the Coasters, Rockpile, Achtung Accordion, John Prine, Harry Smith, the Blue Chieftains, the Surreal McCoys, Robbie Fulks
Sounds Like: headstick
Record Label: PrimeCD/fifty-fifty music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

5 Chinese Brothers--She's a Waitress (And I'm in Love)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MHxgOyRATw
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:36:00 GMT

5 Chinese Brothers--I'm Not Finished Yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe6JmajhcA
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:36:00 GMT

5 Chinese Brothers--My Dad's Face/Claudine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khwGFPty-TQ
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:35:00 GMT

5CB enter youtube age

Hey folks,Our good friend Tim Blixt sent us a mountain of video of the band performing, mostly in acoustic settings. Over the next few months we'll be converting the video to mp4 format and posting hi...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:20:00 GMT

5 Chinese Brothers Entering the Download Age

Hey everyone--Just wanted to let you know that The 5 Chinese Brothers Institute is hard at work uploading the band's music to the Internets so that it can be purchased and downloaded by you and people...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:18:00 GMT

Tom has an album for sale at CDBaby

Tom Meltzer, lead singer of 5 Chinese Brothers, has recorded an album at home. The album, entitled "We Are the Pantomime Horses," has little in common with 5 Chinese Brother music, but you might enjoy...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:55:00 GMT

Tom's blog

Tom Meltzer, lead singer and one of the songwriters for 5 Chinese Brothers, blogs occasionally. Read his ramblings at Man of Constant Leisure.
Posted by on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:27:00 GMT