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Member Since:June 6, 2003

Last Login:December 27, 2011

Location:Chicago, IL

Birthday:January 13

SHOWS FOR AfroZep's TRACKED ARTISTS

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Date Artist Venue Location

02/17/12 Fri Cornmeal Blue Moose Tap House Iowa City, IA
02/18/12 Sat Cornmeal Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
02/19/12 Sun Cornmeal The Aquarium Fargo, ND
02/24/12 Fri Cornmeal Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
02/25/12 Sat Cornmeal Best Buy Theater New York, NY
03/01/12 Thu Cornmeal The Hub Cedar Falls, IA
03/02/12 Fri Cornmeal The Waiting Room Lounge Omaha, NE
03/03/12 Sat Cornmeal Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
03/04/12 Sun Cornmeal Third Street at PAC 3 Carbondale, CO
03/04/12 Sun Fleet Foxes Birmingham Academy Birmingham, GB
03/05/12 Mon Fleet Foxes Brixton Academy London, GB
03/06/12 Tue Bon Iver Thebarton Theatre Adelaide, AU
03/06/12 Tue Cornmeal The State Room Salt Lake City, UT
03/07/12 Wed Cornmeal The State Room Salt Lake City, UT
03/08/12 Thu Bon Iver Sidney Myer Music Bowl Melbourne, AU
03/08/12 Thu Cornmeal Visual Arts Collective (VaC) Garden City, ID
03/09/12 Fri Cornmeal Bing Crosby Theatre Spokane, WA
03/10/12 Sat Bon Iver Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre Meredith, AU
03/10/12 Sat Cornmeal Star Theater Portland, OR
03/11/12 Sun Bon Iver Sydney Opera House Sydney, AU
03/11/12 Sun Cornmeal The Wild Buffalo Bellingham, WA
03/12/12 Mon Bon Iver Sydney Opera House Sydney, AU
03/13/12 Tue Bon Iver Sydney Opera House Sydney, AU
03/13/12 Tue Cornmeal GoodLife Brewing Company Bend, OR
03/14/12 Wed Cornmeal WOW Hall Eugene, OR
03/15/12 Thu Bon Iver Tivoli Theatre Brisbane, AU
03/15/12 Thu Cornmeal Humboldt Brews Arcata, CA
03/16/12 Fri Bon Iver Tivoli Theatre Brisbane, AU
03/16/12 Fri Cornmeal Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA
03/17/12 Sat Bon Iver Tivoli Theatre Brisbane, AU
03/17/12 Sat Cornmeal Crystal Bay Club Casino Crystal Bay, NV
04/05/12 Thu Cornmeal Rudyard's Pub Houston, TX
04/12/12 Thu Bon Iver The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, NV
04/14/12 Sat Bon Iver Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
at Empire Polo Grounds Indio, CA
04/14/12 Sat Cornmeal The Parish Austin, TX
04/17/12 Tue Bon Iver Freeborn Hall Davis, CA
04/17/12 Tue Cornmeal 12th & Porter (Main Stage) Nashville, TN
04/18/12 Wed Cornmeal Downing University Center Theatre Bowling Green, KY
04/19/12 Thu Bon Iver Bill Graham Civic Auditorium San Francisco, CA
04/19/12 Thu Cornmeal The Vogue Theatre Indianapolis, IN
04/20/12 Fri Cornmeal The Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
04/21/12 Sat Bon Iver Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
at Empire Polo Grounds Indio, CA
04/21/12 Sat Cornmeal 2720 Cherokee St. Louis, MO
04/22/12 Sun Bon Iver Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara, CA
04/23/12 Mon Bon Iver AVA Ampitheater Tucson, AZ
04/27/12 Fri Bon Iver New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
at New Orleans Fairgrounds New Orleans, LA
04/27/12 Fri Cornmeal Schuylkill County Fairgrounds Schuylkill Haven, PA
05/27/12 Sun Bon Iver Sasquatch! Music Festival
at The Gorge George, WA

AfroZep's Journal

the creation of afro-zep: Fri 10/30/2009 2:48PM; Afro-Zep was an idea I had a few years back. My thoughts had been for a while to combine the heavy groove, funk and percussion I love about African music with the melodies and strong vocals of groups I have been listening to since I was a kid.

For the past 7 years I had been playing in and working on getting Chicago Afrobeat Project off the ground. I was really pushing the band to release an all covers album as a way to incorporate the few things that I thought were missing in the band- recognizable melodies and vocals. I left the band about a year ago to focus on getting my life in track. I got engaged, bought a house in Logan Square, Chicago and have positive money coming into my bank account for the first time ever.

I joined several bands after leaving CAbP, one of which is called Ron:the band. Ryan Behling was writing most of the music and singing for Ron. I had mentioned to him the concept of Afro-Zep and he really took to the idea and kept bugging me to get things going. We spoke a bunch about the band before actually working on the music. We had both spent years on the road and agreed to make sure things were never taken too seriously, we always have a good time and we play music because we like playing music and never to look it as a job.

Ron was never able to find a decent guitarist (what is it w guitarists. I feel like when I was a kid everyone played. Now its so rare to find someone that actually understands music and how to be in a band that plays guitar). I had the idea to call an old friend Wilson who plays in one of my favorite Chicago bands- 1000 Vertical Feet.

The 3 of us have spent countless hours hanging out, writing arrangements, drinking lots of Old Style and mixing our favorite Zep tunes first with Fela grooves. Then as we started progressing we added in concepts and techniques of other favorite African musicians, such as Ry-Co Jazz, Franco and Thomas Mapfumo.

We then decided to book 4 or 5 shows and never think beyond that. If it goes