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SHORE WORLD/OCTOBER 2001~!~!~!
(continued from page 5)With old style high ceilings, a fireplace and the most beer-sopped pool table in town, the old Moloney's occasionally featured live bands like Stir Crazy in between tattoo contests and Sunday Mud Wrestling bouts , which usually featured a couple of testosterone-pumped biker chicks grappling, slapping and slithering around in a kiddy-sized pool filled with viscous brown mud..Attendees occasionally included a former mayor, city cops and city attorney intermingled w/guys like Bambam Bigelow, members of local bike clubs and stoner barflies from The 'Hood, and if you'd ever been to a boxing match or Cockfight, the noise and rowdy vibe here easily rivaled it in intensity..

   The joint is HUGE, and there's a whole new stage at the end of the bar with a nice house P.A system; but the Question is will this traditionally Asburian format support the bar w/the scene it's trying to create?!? Or Visea Versa? Find out today, and CALL 775-9418, to see what's going down at "The Crossroads"…

     Time to go.. Swimming n the Sea of Otters

     As their new CD 'Friggin Fabulous' rocks the internet on Blow-up radio over my office speakers, we look back on Sea of Otters, truly local legends if ever any deserved the corny tag:

     The Otters' new six song CD entitled "Friggin Fabulous" features the musicians Mad Lee, Bob Donofrio, Ryan Herbison, Charlie Schafer [from Barry & The Penetrators], Patrick Lally, Darren Lambeth, Mary Ciavatta and Nick Ciavatta.

     Reviews so far have been favorable, and they have been getting airplay on Internet station www.blowupradio.com. The Sea of Otters story began back in 1991 when a couple of guys who were playing mostly cover tunes decided to do a night of originals. The day of the gig came without a working band name, and after racking their brains for hours, it dawned on them: "Sea Of Otters". What else? Since everybody butchered Nick Ciavatta's last name, a friend came up with the catchy mnemonic to help people out.

     Nick Ciavatta has fronted the band and written all the songs ever since, with many personnel changes. Starting out as an upbeat, jazz-influenced acoustic trio, it soon evolved into a full on electric project, which some compared to Buffalo Tom and The Minutemen. Others say Ciaviatta's music is like Toad the Wet sprocket meets Leo Kottke, or Webb Wilder meets Zappa.. Once a house band at T Bird's Cafe in the early days of a then-spawning Asbury alternative scene, they were also (continued on page 7)

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