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LUMBERYARD was inspired by the great cover band "Curveball" although we don't do a lot of funk or have 12 horns and three back up singers. We do have a rotating cast of musicians though with one constant, the inimitable Dan DeShara. (I own the PA and lights, so natch!) The name came courtesy of Jeff Slingerland as we were trying to think of rarely used words that everybody already knows. The word LUMBERYARD seemed to be earthy yet not dirty, obtuse yet still intelligent, appealing without being repulsive and lastly; visually stimulating. Men think of building workshops and women think of knotty pine. Somehow it works...

The music itself flows from the "great fountain of musical gestation" era, imho, 1965-1975. Here can be found many of the musical building blocks/primordial stew, if you will, of the pop/rock/blues/funk/spoken word disco/temporal formats that constitute our song list. It harkens back to the day when an orange haired person wearing a powder blue leisure suit on trumpet could "jam" (to improvise over a designated chord structure or sometimes just one chord) with a leather clad 18th Century Dandy on swizzle stick not to mention the platform shoe wearing bassist in a neon nurse's uniform. Difficult to imagine in this uptight modern day world!

LUMBERYARD has employed the diverse skills of many Bay Area musicians: Tommy Miller, Alan Thiele, Tom Fleming, Paul Cotruvo, Donn Spindt, Kean Butterfield, Michael Urbano, Rick Lilley, Ken Cooper, Zac Johnson and Jim Bogios. Our "sit in" friends include Mark "Jellyroll" Burgstahler, Antonia Venezia, Matt Tidmarsh, Gary King, Toni Bryant, Teri La Courte, Brad Gillis, Rob Goldstein, Ron Dallimonti, Dave McCullough, Ken Quilici, Mark Caputo, Kiki Stack and Channing Dahl.

Tom Fleming Joe Aspatore Dan DeShara Tommy Miller Jim Bogios thru the plexi