from page 10 NJC: Why would someone want to play here? David: We have really great sound. The performers get a very attentive audience. I think we’ve already established a reputation for having true musicians; some of the best in the area have played here already. If I was going to book a show, I couldn’t tell you one weekend that’s open right now for filler. We don’t pay the artists but we have a PA system, and we get pretty good press. We offer performers CD’s for sale on a consignment basis and we play their music during business hours to generate interest.
Jack Stock at Indigo Coffeehouse
NJC: How did you come up with the name for the coffeehouse? Ileana: Indigotrails.com was a site I had where I was importing gifts and leather goods from my home country El Salvador.
Indigo Coffee House is open 6 days a week: 8am-9pm Monday-Thursday 8am-10pm Friday 8am-11:30pm Saturday http://www.indigotrail.com
from page 10 happened to met up with a drummer at work named Pete Rizzo who introduced her to a bass player - John Messenger - from Toms River NJ and another guitarist - Victor Monoz - an El Paso transplant who's guitar still maintains a good dose of it's Texas accent, and "The Karen Rush Band - chapter 2" was born.
One of the first orders of business for the new band was to find a new name! The group had spent untold hours kicking over words and phrases that might describe their new project, when one night they were
Eystone at Lance and Debbie’s - Wonder Bar
walking past the Graeystone Hotel, but on that night, the letters 'G' and 'r' were not lite, leaving only the eery outline of the word "eystone". Karen thought it a catchy and defiantly different kind of name and the next day did a Goggle Search on the word where she found references to a picture of a surreal thunderstruck mountain with pitchforks coming out of it. Everyone in the group thought it sounded like their kind of a name, and adopted it immediately.
Of course you need more then a good name, you also need a CD, and some great music to put on it. That said, the band set out to quickly lay down some of their better tracks... It's that "quickly" part that never seems to work... Eystone decided to created the entire album themselves. Pete who had gone to school for Sound Engineering, and who would later be dubbed "The Ear of Gold" was appointed the task of producing the album. Pete recorded half the vocals in a closet in Karen’s apartment on 111 St. in Harlem, The noise was so bad, they needed to stack mattresses against the closet door to keep the sound of horns, sirens and occasional gun shots from becoming part of their first album. continued on page 12
