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More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Pat Lavery:

Pat has been a working bassist in the greater Connecticut/New York area for over 20 years. He plays 5 string electric bass, 4 string fretted and fretless bass, upright bass, keyboards,plus acoustic, rhythm and slide guitars.
His favorite musical styles include blues, jazz, rock & roll, r&b, funk, reggae, ska and zydeco. A 1989 graduate of Western Connecticut State University, Pat studied with eminent Jazz Bassist/Zen Master Lyndon Christie M.D., and supplemented his private studies with David Anderson and Dave Santoro.

After recording, mixing and producing countless demos and project recordings over a 10 year span, Pat created Sparky Music Labs, a writing and production collaboration with keyboardist Chris Ingram in the mid-90's beginning with scores for documentaries for Public Television, and doing pre-production for Brian Tarquin's Instinct Release "Last Kiss Goodbye". Lavery and Ingram have written title themes and/or background music scores for such MTV shows as Road Rules and Undressed; The Daytona 500 Qualifying Round, NCAA Basketball, The Nissan Open Golf Tournament, Buick Invitational Golf Tournament, The Bold and The Beautiful, As The World Turns, Nash Bridges, Now and Again, The Price is Right and 48 Hours for CBS, Making the Band, General Hospital and All My Children for ABC and Another World for NBC, just a few of their many credits.
Pat continues to perform with bands Spam Brando, Mystic Bowie, The Freelance Pallbearers, Black Tie, and The Leo Liddle Big Band among others, and teaches bass and voice at The Guitar Studio in Brookfield, Ridgefield Music in Ridgefield as well as private lessons.

EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS:

* BIRTHDAY: October 5
* BORN/RAISED: Born: Point Pleasant, NJ/Raised: Washington, CT and New Milford, CT and currently residing in New Fairfield, CT.
* FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: The Batmobile
* BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Lowell George, Miles Davis, Bootsy Collins, The Meters, Bela Bartok, Howlin' Wolf
* FAVORITE FOOD: Chicken Tikka w/ a side of vegetable somosas
* LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: Little Feat @ Tuxedo Junction on 5/14/03
* MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Failing to update the Spam Bee-yotch on any schedule changes
* HOBBIES: Spending time with his children Sean and Cara and making futile attempts to catch up on sleep

Much Less Than You Ever Needed To Know About Phil Forbes:

Phil was born and raised in Bethel, CT and attended Western Connecticut State University. He has studied with world famous jazz guitarist Sal Savador and John Abercrombie. He has been teaching guitar since the age of nineteen (14 years) and, since June of 2001, owns and operates the Guitar Studio located at 304 Federal Rd. in Brookfield CT. Phil has recently opened two new studios; in Middlebury and the newest one in New Fairfield.
He is currently playing with an assortment of groups such as The Michelle LeBLanc Jazz Quartet, Black Tie wedding group, Spam Brando (his favorite) and of course, any trio he may throw together for a gig here and there.
Among his favorite musical styles are jazz, blues, rock, funk, country and solo guitar.
Some of the guitars Phil uses are a Gibson Les Paul, Telecaster and a vintage Ibanez 335. His amp set-up is a Traynor, with a "basic" set-up of an amp, an outlet and a bit of luck.
Phil has already recorded one CD, "At The End Of The Beginning" featuring ten original jazz
compositions. The CD is available at Gerosa Records, through the Guitar Studio and at the gigs.Phil is planning to record songs for a new CD sometime this year. He has authored two Method books for guitar; "Concepts For The Beginner" and "Chords For Seven String Guitar".

EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS:

* BIRTHDAY: January 18
* BORN/RAISED: Bethel, CT, currently resides in Oxford, CT with graphic artist wife Cara and their three lovely children
* FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: Mr. Potts (toy)
* BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Jim Hall, Lenny Breau, Danny Gatton, Jimmy Page
* FAVORITE FOOD: Steak
* LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: The Other Ones, 2003
* MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Smoking
* HOBBIES: Basketball, home improvement and classic movies.

Way More Than You Need To Know About Cindy Owens:

Cindy was born in Queens, NY and was brought up in various parts of New York, including NYC, Buffalo, Ithaca and Hawthorne
After leaving Ithaca College, she relocated to New Milford, CT and, short of a couple of years in Florida, has been in this area ever since.
Owens began playing drums at the age of ten and except for a short period of time at the beginning and an even shorter period of time taking lessons from Gary Fiandra, is primarily self-taught. She has played with a number of bands and musicians in the Greater Danbury area (see other SpamPages). Owens founded Spam Brando in 1983-'84 and has been it's "Den Mother" and drummer ever since, save for that two year exception living in Florida. She plays a six piece Pearl MLX drum set and uses Zildjian cymbals.
Owens' technical background contributed to a lengthy career in in mechanical and optical quality control, including work on the optics for both the Hubble and AXAF (CHANDRA) Space Telescopes.
For nine years until she shut the door in 2000, Owens owned and operated a video production studio. Back to doing it though!
Various health concerns and injuries have sidelined Owens recently, but has successfully beaten a raging case of Hepatitus C and has recently become the proud owner of a damned stent in my artery.
Cindy lives in New Milford, has two daughters, Nikki and Shaina, a Russian Blue kitty by the name of Roadkill, son-in-law Mike and two lovely spamchildren, five year old Mason and four year old Dylan. Cindy hates the traffic (anywhere) and screaming little brats with mothers who ignore their horrible little tantrums...

EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS:

* BIRTHDAY: October 19
* BORN/RAISED: Bronx, Queens, Buffalo, Brooklyn, LI, Westchester, NY. Currently residing in New Milford, CT
* FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: Colorforms
* FAVORITE FOOD: Anything a 12 year old likes, especially chocolate...
* BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits, Beatles, Kinks, Al Stewart, Steely Dan, (early) Chicago, Stax/Atlantic
* LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: I don't remember - must be the 420 effect...

* MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Smoking, breathing, talking....
* HOBBIES: computer, gardening, basket weaving, torturing my cat

Absolutely Nothing You Need To Know About Mike Walsh:

Mike was born on Long Island and became a Connecticut boy at age seven. He has been performing in the greater Danbury area for twenty-five years, starting with Cutloose, which ultimately morphed into the dance band Future Tense.
ANOTHER graduate of WCSU, he began teaching at New Milford High School in 1998, then took a position at Wilton High School two years later.
Musical influences include anyone and everything, since he is primarily a fan run amok, rather than a musician proper. Having said this, he does own some neat guitars. One is a 1972 Gibson Les Paul Custom, the other is a 2000 G&L strat-something-or-other. Both are played through a scabrous Marshall 60-watt mini-stack, which is grimy with the patina of hundreds of clubs and redolent of Virginia Slims Menthol Lights, cheap cologne, and tawdry human
disappointment. He'll bellow through any mic available.
In addition to the Spam disc Tick Tock Ka-Ching! Mike can be heard on Future Tense's YBU disc.

EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS:

* BIRTHDAY: July 7
* BORN/RAISED: Bay Shore, NY and Bethel CT; currently resides in New Milford CT with Jane, baby Jack and cats Duke, Louie, and Maggie.
* FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: Rock-'em Sock-'em Robots
* FAVORITE FOOD: Steak
* BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: The Beatles, Led Zep, The Lemon Pipers, Lulu
* LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: Elvis Costello
* MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Talking
* HOBBIES: reading, hiking, those damn guitars

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More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Pat Lavery: Pat has been a working bassist in the greater Connecticut/New York area for over 20 years. He plays 5 string electric bass, 4 string fretted and fretless bass, upright bass, keyboards,plus acoustic, rhythm and slide guitars. His favorite musical styles include blues, jazz, rock & roll, r&b, funk, reggae, ska and zydeco. A 1989 graduate of Western Connecticut State University, Pat studied with eminent Jazz Bassist/Zen Master Lyndon Christie M.D., and supplemented his private studies with David Anderson and Dave Santoro. After recording, mixing and producing countless demos and project recordings over a 10 year span, Pat created Sparky Music Labs, a writing and production collaboration with keyboardist Chris Ingram in the mid-90's beginning with scores for documentaries for Public Television, and doing pre-production for Brian Tarquin's Instinct Release "Last Kiss Goodbye". Lavery and Ingram have written title themes and/or background music scores for such MTV shows as Road Rules and Undressed; The Daytona 500 Qualifying Round, NCAA Basketball, The Nissan Open Golf Tournament, Buick Invitational Golf Tournament, The Bold and The Beautiful, As The World Turns, Nash Bridges, Now and Again, The Price is Right and 48 Hours for CBS, Making the Band, General Hospital and All My Children for ABC and Another World for NBC, just a few of their many credits. Pat continues to perform with bands Spam Brando, Mystic Bowie, The Freelance Pallbearers, Black Tie, and The Leo Liddle Big Band among others, and teaches bass and voice at The Guitar Studio in Brookfield, Ridgefield Music in Ridgefield as well as private lessons. EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS: * BIRTHDAY: October 5 * BORN/RAISED: Born: Point Pleasant, NJ/Raised: Washington, CT and New Milford, CT and currently residing in New Fairfield, CT. * FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: The Batmobile * BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Lowell George, Miles Davis, Bootsy Collins, The Meters, Bela Bartok, Howlin' Wolf * FAVORITE FOOD: Chicken Tikka w/ a side of vegetable somosas * LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: Little Feat @ Tuxedo Junction on 5/14/03 * MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Failing to update the Spam Bee-yotch on any schedule changes * HOBBIES: Spending time with his children Sean and Cara and making futile attempts to catch up on sleep
Much Less Than You Ever Needed To Know About Phil Forbes: Phil was born and raised in Bethel, CT and attended Western Connecticut State University. He has studied with world famous jazz guitarist Sal Savador and John Abercrombie. He has been teaching guitar since the age of nineteen (14 years) and, since June of 2001, owns and operates the Guitar Studio located at 304 Federal Rd. in Brookfield CT. Phil has recently opened two new studios; in Middlebury and the newest one in New Fairfield. He is currently playing with an assortment of groups such as The Michelle LeBLanc Jazz Quartet, Black Tie wedding group, Spam Brando (his favorite) and of course, any trio he may throw together for a gig here and there. Among his favorite musical styles are jazz, blues, rock, funk, country and solo guitar. Some of the guitars Phil uses are a Gibson Les Paul, Telecaster and a vintage Ibanez 335. His amp set-up is a Traynor, with a "basic" set-up of an amp, an outlet and a bit of luck. Phil has already recorded one CD, "At The End Of The Beginning" featuring ten original jazz compositions. The CD is available at Gerosa Records, through the Guitar Studio and at the gigs.Phil is planning to record songs for a new CD sometime this year. He has authored two Method books for guitar; "Concepts For The Beginner" and "Chords For Seven String Guitar". EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS: * BIRTHDAY: January 18 * BORN/RAISED: Bethel, CT, currently resides in Oxford, CT with graphic artist wife Cara and their three lovely children * FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: Mr. Potts (toy) * BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Jim Hall, Lenny Breau, Danny Gatton, Jimmy Page * FAVORITE FOOD: Steak * LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: The Other Ones, 2003 * MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Smoking * HOBBIES: Basketball, home improvement and classic movies.
Way More Than You Need To Know About Cindy Owens: Cindy was born in Queens, NY and was brought up in various parts of New York, including NYC, Buffalo, Ithaca and Hawthorne After leaving Ithaca College, she relocated to New Milford, CT and, short of a couple of years in Florida, has been in this area ever since. Owens began playing drums at the age of ten and except for a short period of time at the beginning and an even shorter period of time taking lessons from Gary Fiandra, is primarily self-taught. She has played with a number of bands and musicians in the Greater Danbury area (see other SpamPages). Owens founded Spam Brando in 1983-'84 and has been it's "Den Mother" and drummer ever since, save for that two year exception living in Florida. She plays a six piece Pearl MLX drum set and uses Zildjian cymbals. Owens' technical background contributed to a lengthy career in in mechanical and optical quality control, including work on the optics for both the Hubble and AXAF (CHANDRA) Space Telescopes. For nine years until she shut the door in 2000, Owens owned and operated a video production studio. Back to doing it though! Various health concerns and injuries have sidelined Owens recently, but has successfully beaten a raging case of Hepatitus C and has recently become the proud owner of a damned stent in my artery. Cindy lives in New Milford, has two daughters, Nikki and Shaina, a Russian Blue kitty by the name of Roadkill, son-in-law Mike and two lovely spamchildren, five year old Mason and four year old Dylan. Cindy hates the traffic (anywhere) and screaming little brats with mothers who ignore their horrible little tantrums... EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS: * BIRTHDAY: October 19 * BORN/RAISED: Bronx, Queens, Buffalo, Brooklyn, LI, Westchester, NY. Currently residing in New Milford, CT * FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: Colorforms * FAVORITE FOOD: Anything a 12 year old likes, especially chocolate... * BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits, Beatles, Kinks, Al Stewart, Steely Dan, (early) Chicago, Stax/Atlantic * LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: I don't remember - must be the 420 effect... * MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Smoking, breathing, talking.... * HOBBIES: computer, gardening, basket weaving, torturing my cat
Absolutely Nothing You Need To Know About Mike Walsh: Mike was born on Long Island and became a Connecticut boy at age seven. He has been performing in the greater Danbury area for twenty-five years, starting with Cutloose, which ultimately morphed into the dance band Future Tense. ANOTHER graduate of WCSU, he began teaching at New Milford High School in 1998, then took a position at Wilton High School two years later. Musical influences include anyone and everything, since he is primarily a fan run amok, rather than a musician proper. Having said this, he does own some neat guitars. One is a 1972 Gibson Les Paul Custom, the other is a 2000 G&L strat-something-or-other. Both are played through a scabrous Marshall 60-watt mini-stack, which is grimy with the patina of hundreds of clubs and redolent of Virginia Slims Menthol Lights, cheap cologne, and tawdry human disappointment. He'll bellow through any mic available. In addition to the Spam disc Tick Tock Ka-Ching! Mike can be heard on Future Tense's YBU disc. EIGHT STUPID QUESTIONS: * BIRTHDAY: July 7 * BORN/RAISED: Bay Shore, NY and Bethel CT; currently resides in New Milford CT with Jane, baby Jack and cats Duke, Louie, and Maggie. * FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR PET: Rock-'em Sock-'em Robots * FAVORITE FOOD: Steak * BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: The Beatles, Led Zep, The Lemon Pipers, Lulu * LAST CONCERT/PERFORMANCE ATTENDED: Elvis Costello * MOST ANNOYING HABIT: Talking * HOBBIES: reading, hiking, those damn guitars