"Culture is one thing and varnish is another." -Emerson

Solo project of singing bassist Derek Wu (Recent Photo, Phenomenal Cat, Food, Peep, Mant, William Bing, etc.) whose mission remains to bring you songs with "good bones."  The 4-piece live lineup: Derek, Guy Corl, Barry Bennett, and Rich "Experience" Frye. #singer-songwriter #pop #folk #rock #eclectic #acoustic


In the fall of 2003 after threatening to do it multiple times Rich Experience decided make good on his boasting. "My roommate and best friend Derek Wu had been hitting the local Open Mic nights playing his distorted bass originals. I would tag along for drinking and revelry. A keyboardist myself, I had been shooting my mouth off for months about how I was going to perform on stage. Finally I set a date and procrastinated 'til the last minute." confessed Rich "I was damned if I was going to haul a stand in there (Innertown Pub) and play behind a keyboard. So I pulled the guts out of an old guitar that I never bothered to learn how to play, and I velcroed an old Yamaha keyboard to the guitar - you know, the kind with the built in speakers. I Midied it into my big ass Yamaha EX5, and in 15 minutes I wrote "Happy Cheese", "Skateboarding", and "Jellyfish" which I don't even remember. And I was off to the Open Mic with my makeshift Keytar", states Rich. And the rest as they say Ladies and Gentlemen is history... 


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