Music:
Member Since: 2/15/2005
Band Website: hullabaloo.cc
Band Members:EJ
Guitar, Lead Vocals
Todd
Lead Guitar, Percussion
Terry
Upright and Electric Bass, Vocals
Jim
Drums, Percussion
Hassan
Percussion
Neelesh & Alan
Trumpet, Percussion
Mike
Tenor Saxophone, Vocals
Bill
Trombone, Percussion
Influences: Talking Heads, The Skatalites, Sublime, Miles Davis, The Clash, James Brown, Ozomatli, Santana, John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Norma Jean, The Black Crows, KISS, Tito Puente, Poncho Sanchez, Mongo Santamaria, Stevie Wonder, Streetlight Manifesto, The Caribbean Jazz Project, Al Green, Art Blakey, Bela Fleck, Ben Harper, Blues Traveler, Bob Marley, Bobby Paunetto, Cannonball Adderley, Carlos Santana, Chicago, Chick Corea, Coleman Hawkins, Conrad Herwig, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Funktelligence, G Love and the Special Sauce, Gipsy Kings, Old Green Day, Herbie Hancock, The Hippos, Hot 8 Brass Band, Jack Johnson, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Cliff, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Miles Davis, Nirvana, Oasis, Ornette Coleman, Paquito D'Rivera, Peter Tosh, The Postal Service, Prince, Ray Charles, Rebirth Brass Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reverend Horton Heat, The Roots, Skatalites, The Specials, Steel Pulse, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Thelonious Monk, Third World, Toots & The Maytals, Tower of Power.
Sounds Like: Fun, energetic, up-lifting symphony of sound.
Santana joins a ska band.
World-Beat Funky Jazzy Ska.
Blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms and a swinging horn section with original punky ska rock, Hullabaloo really live up to their name, creating an outrageous uproar everywhere they go. With an almost Mothers-like appraoch, the band variously contains anywhere from six to eleven members. Either way, stripped down or stacked up, Hullabaloo is an upbeat, dance crazy, chaotic joy ride that is both catchy and weirdly experimental. Based out of Ann Arbor, Hullabaloo is well known and well respected and rightfully so.
-Ryan A. Bunch - Toledo City Paper
"Hullabaloo provides a hands off party energy that we cant replace with an
ipod."
-Ashley H. - The Ann Arbor News
"Ann Arbor’s Hullabaloo on the other hand makes a groovy racket that only re-enforces their name, but does so with a metered, horn-driven swing touching on ska, punk and blues with some just nice slices of Dixieland swirled up in there somewhere."
-Ryan A. Bunch - Toledo City Paper
Type of Label: None