“The Tahoe show ” I think we’re just going to have a good time,” Nichols said. The bass player usually is Dave Miller, but sometimes, as might be the case at Saturday’s show at Tahoe, longtime member Beikko Lepisto returns, Nichols said. Mark Cally plays guitar, and Daniel Glass is on drums. Today’s lineup includes two more horn players, Jim Jedeikin on baritone and alto sax, and trumpeter Scott Steen. The sax player was Mando Doram, who has been with the band ever since. In a thick New York accent, Nichols imitated his friend: “Yo Eddie, I got this buddy, his son plays saxophone. He likes to tell about the time Mark Mahoney, the club owner of a place called the Shamrock Social Club, gave him a phone call. Nichols’ band had two guitars and an upright bass. When we figured that out I’d write a song to it.” Nobody taught us how to play 1-6-2-5, which is a common jazz chord progression. It was kind of like discovering American music because we didn’t know the music first. “I always compared it to a weird skiffle band,” he said. “It was stuff like Elvis, rockabilly and ’50s pop songs.”Īlthough Nichols became a fan of punk rock when it was born in the early 1980s, he didn’t play punk rock. “I bought a guitar and sat in a room for a year, practiced and came out and started a band,” he said.
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