Mystery Band
TOUR INFO:
Sunday, June 12, 2005 @ 7 p.m.
Mystery Band Workshop @ The Olde Town Pub 66 North Fair Oaks Ave.
Pasadena, CA
Call 626-584-4113 for regularly updated information.
Go ahead. We dare ya.
NEWS:
Our new lp "Wood" in the final mixing phase,
looking toward a fall/winter release.
CURRENTLY
AVAILABLE: The special release of the limited
edition custom cd "Pride Before The Fall - the
summer collection sampler" -- which contains six new
tracks from the aforementioned "Wood" and a
track each from our other Aim recording releases. Each
copy of "Pride..." features a unique handmade
CD cover, making it special 'n' collectable for the
forward-thinking consumer.
Still praying for a resolution to the
"Resume (Reinsert Title Here)" question,
however vinyl fetishists can still get the LP "Leo,
Gemini, Capricorns & Jones, Ltd." and our two 7
inch relics "Tasting The Smell Of Light" and
"Rebels Without Applause". We may be able to
dig up a copy or two of the long out of print CD
"Insert Title Here" at the show, but we can't
swear to it.
The History of the
Mystery
The Mystery Band was started as a conspiracy between Ace
Farren Ford, Richard Snyder, Gary Riley & Pierre
Dupuy in 1987. Originally a quintet including Maurice
Jones (who left in 1996 for an illustrious solo career)
the group debuted at the legendary and now defunct
Palomino club in North Hollywood in March of 1988.
Their first release was a 7 inch single entitled
"Tasting The Smell Of Light" on Sympathy For
The Record Industry in 1989, followed several years later
by their first CD, the now out-of-print "Insert
Title Here" on the Birdcage label in 1996 (during
the interim they managed to back the notorious British
artist Savage Pencil on an abstract CD called "Ether
Hogg", also on Sympathy For The Record Industry,
1994).
In 1996 they contributed a track on the unlikely
compilation "Merry Maladies" on Cleopatra
(backing founder Ace Farren Ford on a "solo"
track called "Scurvy") and closed the
millennium by signing with the Aim Recording Company, who
have released the 12 inch LP "Leo, Gemini,
Capricorns and Jones, Ltd." and the 7 inch EP
"Rebels Without Applause" from the original
first album sessions, and will shortly be reissuing the
out-of-print debut CD as "Resume (reinsert title
here)." Naturally all releases contain previously
unissued tracks so that die-hard Mystery Band fans will
have to have them all.
The band was joined by the legendary Larry Mister E.
Easter, (veteran of such history making outings as Harvey
Mandel's Cristo Redentor and 3 Linn County LPs) on horns
and woodwinds in 2001. Meanwhile the Mystery Band are in
studio mixing what will become their next CD
"Wood" for the Aim Recording Company, hoping
for a fall or winter release, 2003.
The Mystery Band are:
Ace Farren Ford - vocals,
washboard, tenor & soprano saxophone, trumpet,
chinese musette (suona), one-string 3/4 banjo &
occasional bass guitar.
Lance Growler Richard Snyder -
vocals, bass & bass guitar, guitar, marimba,
mellotron, harmonium.
Gary Mercury Leatherwing Riley -
vocals, guitars, national steel & lap steel guitar,
hurdy gurdy, accordian, keyboards, mandolin, banjo &
harmonica.
Pierre Bamboo Dupuy - vocals,
drums & percussion, washtub bass, guitar, banjo &
mandolin.
Larry Mister E. Easter - baritone & soprano
saxophones, shaums, clarinet, digeridoo, flutes, neys and
what have you.
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