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The Slackers

Mighty Fine / Sean Wheeler And Zander Schloss / The Forthrights feat. Mr. T bone / DJ 100 DBs

Venue:
The Bowery Ballroom
Date:
Fri 9/25
Notes:
18+
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
$16 advance / $18 day of show
Tickets
The Slackers
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The Slackers are part of an imaginary universe. It wasn't their fault, well not completely. The caterpillar told them not to eat the mushroom on the right. But they did and for 15 yrs now they've had to play Imaginary-Jamaican-Rock-and-Roll, and try to explain that to everyone who passes.

The Slackers sound is Jamaican rock n roll. While they have been influenced, and even personally taught by Jamaican ska/reggae originators, like the Skatalites and the Upsetters (Original backing band for the Wailers), the band sees its music through an American lens. This band is equally appreciative of old blues, 60s soul, rock, and Rnb as it is of reggae, rocksteady, dub, and Ska. It is as if the Rolling Stones or the Yardbirds had grown up on Bob Marley as well as Muddy Waters. From their 1996 release, Better Late Than Never through to last year's, Peculiar, the NYC-based band, the Slackers have established themselves as America's premiere interpreters and innovators of Jamaican music. In their new release, The Boss Harmony Sessions, they take this unified eclectism one step further. They revisit a rock standard, 'Mama Told Me Not Come', and infuse it with Trojan era reggae, psychedelic organs, and a coltraneish sax solo.
Mighty Fine
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No need for introductions we've known each other for years. You're not staring at a dead man six shots is what got me here. The opening lines to the song "Hello" couldn't be more spot .. touring most of the world with The Afghan Whigs Singer Steve Myers returned home only to get shot and left for dead on a rainy New Orleans street (read the article here). Myers moved to New York to recover and try to put his past behind him only joining the Dulli lead Twilight Singers occasionally for shows on the East Coast or recording down South. Not until hooking up with fellow New Orleanian Jagon Eldridge in late 2003 did he think about starting a band of his own. Eldridge, an accomplished saxophone player in his own right who studied under some of the greats had also moved to New York and playing gigs with Andy G and the Roller Kings. Along with fellow Roller King Richie Pomerantz, the three started writing songs in Jagon's apartment. Pomerantz's drinkin' buddy bass player Paul Verciglio joined a month later. Guitar player/producer Mitro Valsamis who played in the 90's punk band The Trickbabys joined Mighty Fine after hearing early demo's of the songs "RIDE" and "Find Me Another". Subsequently, band locked themselves away for the rest of the summer and part of the fall of 2004 until things felt right. "We didn't want to play out until we had our shit together" - Myers Sweaty Rump Shakin' Garage Soul is a great way to describe the band. Or, as Myers puts it, "it's boogie". Mighty Fine is a new band with an old school attitude - the combination of a James Brown styled soul review and sweaty garage rock show. In this band, New York and New Orleans meet at the crossroads and no one moves an inch. "It's our job to strut and make you dance...simple as that." - Myers
Sean Wheeler And Zander Schloss
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DJ 100 DBs
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