I could see in that set at Summer Camp that we mash together: Every single musician was smiling, bobbing their head, grooving and laughing and having a good time. Stasik agrees: "It was easy being with each other for me, because it felt like friends who have been on this long journey together having fun. "They're great guys! We always have a good time together." "When they started playing Summer Camp, that was the beginning of our bands getting connected, and we've been fast friends ever since," Schnier continues. really connected at Summer Camp in the early 2000s twenty years later, people still go to that festival primarily for performances by the two acts. I actually still have the cassette tape!" And this is even before Jake was in the band, but they did such a great job with it and stayed on our radar ever since that time. And so he gave me the tape, and at the time, we actually had a cassette deck in the RV that we were touring in. They cover one of your songs maybe you'll like that.' Not at all owning up to the fact that he was in the band, totally on the sly. "After the show, he gave me a cassette tape of Umphrey's McGee covering 'Rebubula' and passed it off to me and said, 'Oh, here's this great band from Indiana - you should check them out. "The origin story is when Brendan came to a moe. Paul Citone The bands' connections go way back - so far back, in fact, that they started with a cassette tape. So we both kind of grew up on that and made our careers on that." I think that's a little different than going to other style shows, where you know what the songs and set list are going to be. You don't know what kind of mood or energy the bandmembers are in and how that's going to equate with what energy the audience is bringing. You don't know how they're going to be performed. "You don't know what songs are going to be played. "It's just basically the deep roots of the jam-band scene: people who enjoy going to see musicians take risks and take them on an unexpected journey," Stasik says. They both have a similar fan base, he notes. Umphrey's McGee bassist Ryan Stasik, who is Schnier's neighbor in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, confirms that the bands will "absolutely" share the stage at some point during the run. "It's just a matter of whether or not we can work out the details." "Pretty much anytime something comes up in our bands and we're talking to one another about doing a thing, the answer is always yes," says Schnier. guitarist Al Schnier, adding that "the emails have been flying" with requests for something similar at Red Rocks. The two innovative jam bands recently joined forces for an extraordinary two-hour set at the final Summer Camp music festival, and are still running off that high. are ready to take Red Rocks Amphitheatre by storm for their two-night run starting Friday, June 16, after a show at Dillon Amphitheater on June 15.
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