You Were Spiraling/Overlap/Akasa/
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and quirky songsmithedness of singer Tom Brislin, who is very much influenced by Herbie Hancock.  A jazz studies guy, Brislin brings the dated Moog synthesizer back to life, emulating the likes of Hancock, Brian Eno, and Josef Zawinul. Brislin also simulates other keyboard sounds from the Seventies fusion era: Mellotron, Fender Rhodes, and Yamaha Electric Piano. Brislin, along with guitarist J. P. Doherty and drummer Paul Wells are alumni of William Paterson University while bass player Bob Hart is from Mason Gross. Talk about erudition!!!

They opened with "Big Wheel," a wistful combination of Rascals organ fanfares and Split-Enz new-wave. most of their songs centered on the love vs. lust predicament, including "Just A Phase," "This Is The Road," and "Excellent Body," and their new song "Too Good To Be True."

Their set's grabber however was "Lightning Twice," a gem of melodic pop with progressive overtones, especially in the Steve Hackettish guitar solo by Doherty. They finished off with "Tony Williams" an instrumental written right before the sudden death of the jazz skinsman.  Tom Brislin said they retitled the song upon hearing the news.

The next band, Overlap, which is fronted by Rob Jones, (host of the open mic at the Court on Wednesday that always lets me play a long time) is a funkarama powerhouse that sheds its sense of melancholy and humor every five seconds, especially on their opener "Nostalgia."  Augmented by two persussionists, David Thomas Smela and Chris Ride and woodwinder (Webster, do you hear me?) "Hollywood" Ben Chapman, the band took to healthy jam sections that never upstaged the meaning of each song, drawing from, jazz, reggae, and Latin influences as well. Chapman invokes echoes of Sonny Fortune from the
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Jane Says...
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J.T.:  Allright, so how long has The Saint been open?
S.S.: 94, November 18th, 1994. We opened with headlining The Mother Sound.
J.T.:  What's that?
S.S.: A band, they were my Crown Victorian band from The T-birds, a business that I previously had. They were an intense, like jam-psychedelic band.
J.T.:  Wooo.
S.S.: Our first big national act was G Love and Special Sauce.
J.T.:  I didn't know they went back that far. Is that the same T-birds that's here in Albury?
S.S.: Yes, I started there in 1991.
J.T.:  What made you come up with this idea that you?...
S.S.: In college was doing benefits for the radio station, that's how I got into putting on shows.
J.T.:  Was music appreciation like a driving force?...
S.S.: Oh, radio...radio...[Elvis lookout] was my love...
J.T.:  From when you were a teenager? Can you remember that far back? [I'm so bad. He laughs.]
S.S.: Um, seventeen. I was a
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