THE KIRBY SWATOSH BAND is a POWERPOPROCK ensemble that is an enigma wrapped in a puzzle which is in turn wrapped in cellophane with holes poked into it so they can breathe, disguised as a band….
But that is an oversimplification.
Singing songs about building backyard spaceships, and living in yellow submarines,
The Kirby Swatosh Band tackles (O.K. touch tags) such timeless issues as Love, Loss, Lost in Space, and Coffee.
Influenced by such artists as The Beatles, dada, Collective Soul, Guster, James Taylor, and Hendrix, comparisons to
The Beatles, dada, Collective Soul, Guster, James Taylor, and Hendrix are inevitable.
With three released albums of original material to date, The Kirby Swatosh Band has also written many, many, songs made famous by The Beatles, Tom Petty, The Monkees, and Van Morrison.
True, those artists did write and record them first, if you take the whole quaint and old fashioned “LINEAR TIME “ approach…. but that is only because they are older.
THE BAND:
Kirby Swatosh - Writer of words and singer of songs. Vocals, and rhythm guitar (Band namesake).
Brian Goughnour- Multi- talented lead guitarist /singer who channels Tom Petty, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Rush, ……sometimes simultaneously.
Todd Eagle - Gifted lead guitarist/singer(gets all the gifts) with his “STAR WARS “guitar playing.
Best Stage name (formerly Todd Eagle Mellencamp), President of DELISTRATYDESIGN.
Eric Wikoff - Drums
Eric Wiseman - Bass/singer
Eric & Eric are Twins, brothers in every sense of the word, except one. Separated at birth from different mothers in different years these two lock in the rhythm section so tightly, so seamlessly, that even during rehearsals, if one dose not show up, so doesn’t the other one.
PAST PERFORMANCE VENUES:
The McMennamins Kingdom:
Boones Treasury, Rock Creek Tavern, Forest Grove, and Hotel Oregon(Featured performer there at The Annual UFO FEST since 2003).
Berbati’s Pan - Portland, Oregon (opened for national touring act, dada)
The Bite of Oregon - Portland, Oregon
Prairie Bar & Grill - Brush Prairie, Washington
Discography:
Time Frozen 1998
Swat’s Candy Kitchen 2001
About Time 2007
http://www.swatscandykitchen.com
http://www.isound.com/kirby_swatosh_band/
http://www.myspace.com/kirbyswatoshband
kirbyswatosh@msn.com
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