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NEWS: PHUNCLE SAM spent a good part of the weekend making videos of four original songs and recording four songs for our CD at Landside Studios, www.landslidestudio.com Randy and his two sons from www.thisismyband.com filmed the music for a half hour TV show they are producing on us. Thisismyband is a great new place for musicians to post unlimited songs and videos, check it out. Landslide is a beautiful state-of-the-art recording studio in Asheville, NC. Big thanks to Landslide and Thisismyband for their great help and support. It has been a very productive time for Phuncle Sam! Hopefully we can share some of the results with you soon.
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Since their formation in October of 2004, Asheville, NC based, Phuncle Sam has been firmly rooted in musical exploration, Asheville's own Improv~ Americana, Dead~Centric "jam band". Over three years of intense jamming and rehearsing finds Phuncle Sam with an ever-expanding body of original music. The band will also serve up quintessential interpretations of Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead and many others.
Known to play private parties that last all night, Asheville "after~show" shows for Ratdog, Moe, Widespread Panic and Darkstar Orchestra fans.
The band has played local venues such as the Westville Pub, Stella Blue and The Town Pump, and festival venues such as The Harvest Bash and The Pig Pull at Deerfields.
Phuncle Sam has also worked with Bonfires For Peace playing in Asheville’s Pritchard park multiple times and acoustic shows in smaller venues such as Malliprop’s bookstore and Rosetta’s Kitchen.
Phuncle Sam’s real testing grounds were at Bearly Edible (now Ophelia’s). Frankly, we lost track of how many gigs we played there, probably close to twenty.
In the summer of 2006, Phuncle Sam did a short tour hitting Nebraska and Colorado, playing at Quixote's in Denver and headlining the Summerfest festival in Alamosa among other appearances.
The band has also collaborated many times with the gifted singer and guitarist, Jaimee Tomas.
Phuncle Sam has gone through a few changes and is happy to welcome David Mulder to the band, a phenomenal piano player and keyboardist. He brings more jazz influence into the band along with some wonderful original material.
*Great Show 5-25 at Stella Blue, the second time we have done an Earth First! benefit with the Firecracker Jazz Band. Great night!
Opened for the Mantras a couple of times in July. What a great pleasure! These folks are real creative and are all monster players. There are comparisons, but they are carving out thier own sound. Very intense and rewarding.
Dan Joffe, (bass, vocals) ~~ From New Jersey, influences include the Grateful Dead, the Holy Model Rounders, Stone House and Mike Hutchinson. Dan has previously played with “Scarlet Fire”, “Monkeys With Car Keys” and “Sugarstick And The Boilermakers” among others.
Bill Evans, (guitar, guitar synth, vocals) ~~ From New York, influences run from Jerry Garcia to John Coltrane. Bill previously played in Asheville’s “Unidentified Filharmonic Orchestra”and “String Elixer”, upstate NY’s popular “Deeper Roots” and many other musical projects.
James “Stymie” Collins, (guitar, vocals) ~~ From North Carolina, influences include, The Grateful dead, Phish and Widespread Panic. Stymie previously played with “Universal Circle” and is a big Tar Heel fan.
Ned McGinn, (percussion) ~~ From Illinois, influences include The Grateful Dead, Trey Anastasio, String Cheese Incident and JJ Cale and he is an avid music collector. Ned has previously played with “Alligator Wine”
David Mulder, (piano and keyboards, vocals) ~~ From New Jersey, influences include Miles Davis, The Grateful Dead, King Crimson and Rusted Root. David started playing with NJ Ska bands and later played with “Cerberus Shoal” and the high energy jam band, “Blend”
John "Gio" Wyatt (Drums, Vocals) ~~ From Detroit & Ft. Lauderdale. influences include Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Rush, Led Zepplin, down to the Roots Reggae. With an extensive background in Rock & Roll, Geo has played with many great artists including members of the Marley family. He also plays with the fine band Jerrod's Door.