Psychedelic Breakfast is making waves in the northeast. To find out how great this band really is, you've just got to go check them out yourself. This weekend, PB hangs out in the Northeast with three shows in their home state of Connecticut. After two shows in Massachusetts this week at Tammanay Club in Worcester on Thursday and the Bay State Hotel in Northampton on Friday, Psychedelic Breakfast will perform at the South Norwalk Arts Celebration (SoNo). The SoNo Arts Celebration is a non-profit event which takes place every August in South Norwalk to support original music, art, and community spirit. PB's set is from 4:45pm - 6pm on Saturday afternoon at the SoNo Arts Stage. That night they will rock at the Colorado Brewery & Trading Co. in Danbury. On Sunday afternoon, they join Uncle Sammy and and the Grapes of Vaudevillian Fantasy at Shenanigans which is just down the street from SoNo right after ulu's set.
The music speaks for itself, and to try to sum up their music with words is virutally impossible. I think the boys from Psychedelic best do the explaining. The following is an interview that took place after their smokin' set that closed out the first night of Camp Creek 2001.
There was defintely a magical presence during PB's set. Everyone, including the band, seemed to be in shock throughout the entire PB set. I don't know what it was, but something was so right-on during that set, as if the stars were aligned just right allowing PB to put on one of their best performances ever. It definitely had a lot to do with the extremely positive reaction and incredibly strong vibrations going on between the band and the crowd during and after the set. It took us all a while to catch our breath!
Heady: What were the strongest elements going on that night that contributed to
what was ultimately delivered by PB at Camp Creek? Was it the beautiful surroundings? The good vibes in the audience? The stage and sound set-up? What made it click?
Psychedelic Breakfast: Everything. Everything was just right which made it kick ass. Stage, laid back atmosphere, people, weather, the sights. It was all there. But getting up in front of all those people we felt an enormous amount of energy and that just gets us going. We take that and pump it out ten fold.
Heady: How do you feel about the way the crowd responded to PB?
PB: Wonderfully. It was amazing. Just an incredible amount of love from the first note and we were just really happy to be up there rockin' out for everyone.
Heady: I heard that you cover a couple Frank Zappa tunes. Is that true? Can you name a few?
PB: Hell yeah. I'll name all of 'em. "Echidna's Arf (Of You)," "Flower Punk,"
"Magic Fingers," "Mystery Roach," "I'm the Slime," "Willie the Pimp," "Theme from Lumpy Gravy," "Eat that Question," "The Orange County Suite," and "Packard Goose."
Heady: Who are some of your other musical influences?
PB: Zeppelin, Zappa, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dead, Phish, PFunk, and everything good under the sun.
Heady: How would you define a jamband? And what seperates PB from other jambands? Where do you fit in?
PB: Thats a tough question. Jambands are bands that mix all styles of music together and practice group improvisation, as well as solo improvisation, in abstract and conventional ways.
We fit in that we do exactly what I just said. We're all different colors in the same spectrum of music so its tough for me to compare us to other bands because we're all trying something different. All I can say is we just believe in the spirit of rock'n roll and lettin' loose on stage with fast tempos and a lot of notes.
Heady: For a band that has been performing for only 3 years, it seems to me
that PB has come a long way. How has the band managed to get to this point
so quickly?
PB: Hard work, determination, and a lot of help from our family and friends.
Heady: What's in store for the future?
PB: Touring, touring, and touring.
Heady: Speaking from the bands perspective, is there anyone you would like to take this opportunity to thank?
PB: Definitely all the people who bought our CD! But really we would like to thank our Artist Justin Maturo, Archivist Dave Pecoraro, Seth Wolfman, Paul Ryan and everybody who works with them to promote our shows and spread our music, and there are still many more to thank so you'll have to buy the cd and look in the credits for that list. Oh yeah and thanks for the interview!
Heady: Thank you so much for your time.
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