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Chowderfoot is a band, not a disease from the Colonial era. This scruffy three-piece from Seaford (the “Nylon Capital of the World”) has posted loosey-goosey jam-metal tracks on MySpace. (Who titles a song "Bubonic Salmonella"?) But make no mistake: Live, Chowderfoot are fun and surprisingly loud for a three-piece. - Mark Mobley
http://syncmymusic.msn.com/default.aspx?page=ARTICLE&artID=6836866>1=25041 - msn: Sync My Music
Things are looking up for the Seaford music scene.As least that's the impression that came across to a sizable crowd at the Delaware Music Festival in Dewey Beach earlier this month as the young band from eastern Sussex County called Chowderfoot took the stage. With some 40 Delaware bands playing the fest, Chowderfoot managed to command attention and generate some of the biggest buzz.
The News Journal's own Ryan Cormier blogged that Chowderfoot was "one of my favorite new bands; who knew such a cool band was hiding out in Seaford?"
A solid blend of original rock and reggae echoing the likes of Sublime, 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine (without sounding contrived) provides a framework for the band to do what it does best -- turning out tight jams, monster guitar solos and madman stage antics. Seaford's finest, indeed.
At the fest, "We had a blast out there -- we just do what we do," said drummer Joey States.
It was far from band's first appearance at the festival -- in fact, they've played the last four -- yet States said the band is excited that it keeps turning heads.
Chowderfoot will play the 96 Rockapalooza festival at the Pulse nightclub in Ocean City, Md., tonight and Arena's Bar & Deli in downtown Rehoboth Beach on Saturday.
States' bandmates include singer-guitarist Trevor Young, bassist Justin Brooke and guitarist Phil Klineburger.
The four guys, all in their early 20s, have clocked a lot of time together, to say the least -- their friendship goes back to when they were kids. "We're all just kind of neighborhood buddies," said States, actually a Denver native. "I played baseball with those guys. Trevor and I were in the same Cub Scout troop."
It wasn't until junior high school rolled around, though, that they all caught the music bug and formed Chowderfoot, debuting at an eighth-grade party -- a big deal at the time, States said. But by the time they were all in high school, being in a band really was a big deal. More gigs started filtering in (although they had to coordinate shows around their parents' schedules so they could be driven to gigs) and Chowderfoot got a taste of the music life. "We would play the middle school dances and we thought that was the coolest ... to get paid for playing music," States said with a laugh.
When guitarist Klineburger went off to college, Chowderfoot lost a member part time (something the band still has to work around during Klineburger's graduate school schedule), but the offshoot there was that they also got a chance to start playing college shows and "frat parties with 50 kegs," States said.
If there's any secret to Chowderfoot's head-turning success, it lies, States said, in all those early years together. "I've played in other groups ... and it's fun playing with other people, but it's nothing like playing with people you grew up with. Other musicians come up to us and say, 'You're so tight. You move together as one thing," States said. "You just learn your friends as musicians -- you know what they're going to do and what their style is. We can just follow each other. You don't need a structure."
Since 2003, the band has released two albums -- the latest, "Binge Thinking," in March. As for Chowderfoot's immediate future, there's a packed summer of shows coming up. Right now they're busy playing locally, but States said the band hopes one day to move to a more thriving music climate.
"There's definitely a scene [here], but as far as we're concerned, we don't want to hang around too long ... We feel that if you don't learn '867-5309' you're screwed," States said. "We love playing. Our whole thing though is we don't want to play places where people don't want to hear music.
"We want to play for people who want to hear it -- we have a good time when the audience has a good time." - Katie Wais
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080425/ENTERTAINMENT/804250312 - Delaware Online
Discography
1st CD - Left Field Funk (2003)
At the Current Time
Testicle Container
Looking
Anisible Energy
The Potential
Left Field Funk
Sinking In
The One We Did Last Night
Expands
The One We Did Last Night
2nd CD Binge Thinking (2008)
Chillin
Cherokee Dad
My Silence
One Big If
Crazy Song
Good Night, Good Morning
Bubonic Salmonella Trio
Literally Obliterated
Its a Shame If You Still Smile
Before You Get There
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Bio
Chowderfoot is from the second smallest state in America, Delaware. We have been friends since middle school. Some time in 1999 we all took a mutual interest in playing music. When we started playing together none of the members could even drive. We would have practice once or twice a week in Trevors basement. His parents were always giving us ideas for new songs and showing us new music that we had never heard before. Before long we had our set list written on Trevors basement door so we wouldnt for get which songs to practice.
Whenever we talk about playing music people always ask who our influences are. The best answer is that they are always changing. When we first started playing music our influences were bands like 311, Incubus, RHCP, Sublime, and Led Zeppelin. As time went on our influences have changed. Today some of our new influences would be Bob Marley, Mars Volta, Victor Wooten, The John Butler Trio, Bedouin Soundclash, minus the Bear, and Jimi Hendrix. Are influences are all over the place.
Or first shows were playing middle school dances and a small coffee shop located downtown. As we got older and started driving we started playing shows at the local bars and restaurants. We were different than the bands our town was used to. In our area there is an endless list of metal bands and we sounded nothing like them. As we all graduated high school a couple of the members went off to different colleges. Instead of giving up we took advantage of the opportunity to play outside of our home town. We would drive to Longwood University to play Battle of The Bands and play for these enormous field parties with attendance anywhere from 700 to 900 people. Playing at Longwood gave us the opportunity to play on the same stage with bands like Robert Randolph and the Family Band,Edwin McCain, Jimmies Chicken Shack, and Soldiers of Jah Army (SOJA).
One of the coolest things about Chowderfoot is that when we get together and play music we go to a totally different place. We have been playing together for almost 10 years and it shows. We know each others playing style and ability we can feel it when something is about to happen. If one of us wants to change a part of a song from the way we normally play is we can feel it. Its crazy! We all feed off each other and its great. We are always trying to find some excuse to practice and work on new stuff. We all work really hard to make our music but we enjoy what we do. Now after expanding our playing area to MD,PA,NJ,SC,NC, and VA we have moved halfway across the country to Austin, TX the live music capital of the US to even further expand our fanbase. If you have any other questions feel free to email us at chowderfoot@hotmail.com or message us on www.myspace.com/chowderfoot. Or WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CHOWDERFOOT
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Chowderfoot
Joey States
Trevor Young
Luke Saylor
Justin Brooke
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