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February 16, 2009 - Monday

Lives and Times of The Repercussionists
Category: Music

The Repercussionists:

• Keyboardist Ed Rashed has been writing, arranging, playing, and singing professionally since the 1960s, and has performed on stages up and down the East Coast and on both sides of the Atlantic. Aside from ((((The Repercussions)))), Ed currently performs with another great rock band, Band of Brothers, and is Music Director at Saint Thomas More Church in Narragansett, RI. Former bands include Blueswagon, Ragwagon, Wayz & Means, Tanoose, Contact, The Shamblers, Billy and the Kids, Bop-A-Gon, The Wanderers, and Kingsnake. Ed enjoyed a 20 year run with RI's unique statewide school dance program, A Chance to Dance, working as music director, class musician, and pit band member for the annual shows at Providence Performing Arts Center. He has written and directed music for more than twenty theatrical productions with Trinity Rep, Alias Stage, The RI Shakespeare Theater and others, has had his songs performed and recorded by several artists, and his orchestral compositions performed in concert. He has been a session player on several recording projects including Grammy Award winning artist Bill Harley's Big Big World, and has released two CDs of his own: Big Book Of Love and Wrong Side Of The Door. Ed hasn't decided what he wants to be when he grows up.

   • Guitarist Nick Smith has also been writing and performing music since the 1960s, and although his paths have crossed with Ed's and Jack's along the way, this is the first time the three have collaborated on a project. Nick started with folk, blues and rock, and has continually expanded his repertoire. He plays and sings all the major musical genres, including jazz, classical, gospel, pop, standards and show tunes, country, Celtic and “old-timey music.” Current projects outside of ((((The Repercussions)))) include his jazz group The Patterson Smith Trio, and a classical act, The Ligia & Nick Guitar Duo. He also sits in occasionally with the rock ensemble Nasty Habits. Nick was a founder of the legendary Pop-Rock band Nicky & The Triangles, for which he wrote and collaborated on a collection of very catchy tunes. Nick is also an alumnus of the bands Slippery Elm, Mirage, The Beatniks and 9-1-1. An accomplished and award winning surfer, he is the only known human being who can simultaneously whistle "The Halleluia Chorus," and hum "Louie Louie" while riding a wave.

   • Bassist Bill Marrocco, alias Sonny Paradise, is another 40+ year veteran of the Southeastern New England music scene, and ((((The Repercussions)))) is his second musical collaboration with Ed Rashed. He is a founding member of Range of Motion and an alumnus of The Boys of Summer, Crazy Chester, and the Ken Lyon Band. He has shared the stage with such musicians as Molly Hatchett, Ian Hunter, and the Mamas and the Papas, as well as local favorite John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. Bill is also a ceramics artist who has displayed at The Smithsonian. He likes nothing better than staying at home cooking gourmet Italian, and sipping fine wine.

    • Drummer Jack Ezikovich, also a well known veteran of the local and national music scene, has worked with Ed many times over the years in noted local bands and recording projects, including laying down most of the drum tracks for Ed's CDs. He currently drives the beat of the nationally acclaimed Cajun band Magnolia, recording and performing at dances and festivals throughout the US and Canada, and performs regularly with Louisiana legends Mark and Ann Savoy, Jesse Lege and Ed Poullard during their Northeast tours. Jack's former bands include Nova, Fat Man Wilson and the Sliders, The Other Half, Tanoose, The Shamblers, Bop-A-Gon, OK Chorale and The Ravens. Jack claims to have made "literally hundreds of dollars" in his 40 year musical career.

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February 16, 2009 - Monday

Song List - February 2009

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Song List as of February 2009

The Band - Chest Fever
                    The Shape I'm In
                    The Weight

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
        Hey Bulldog
        In My Life
        Lady Madonna

Richard Berry - Louie, Louie

JJ Cale - After Midnight

The Chanteys - Pipeline

Eric Clapton - After Midnight

Joe Cocker - Feeling Alright

The Commitments - Treat Her Right

Elvis Costello - Pump It Up

Cream - I Feel Free
        Strange Brew
      Tales of Brave Ulysses

Dick Dale - Miserlou

Bob Dylan - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
               Maggie’s Farm
               Mississippi

Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

Al Green - Take Me To The River

Roy Head - Treat Her Right

Jimi Hendrix - Fire
        Little Wing
        Third Stone From the Sun
        The Wind Cries Mary

James Gang - Funk #49
        Walk Away

John Lennon - Instant Karma

Little Feat - Let It Roll

The Lovin’ Spoonful - Summer In The City

Dave Mason - Only You Know And I Know

The Meters - Hey Pocky Way

Van Morrison - Wild Nights

Michael Martin Murphy - Geronimo’s Cadillac

NRBQ - Green Light

The Police - Invisible Sun
              When The World Is Running Down

Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

Paul Simon - Late In The Evening
               You Can Call Me Al

Sly & The Family Stone - Stand

Huey “Piano” Smith - Don’t You Just Know It

Spirit - Fresh Garbage
    I Got a Line On You

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me

Steely Dan - Josie
                      Pretzel Logic

The Surfaris - Wipe Out

Talking Heads - Take Me To The River

James Taylor - Fire and Rain
                          You've Got a Friend

The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg

Traffic - Feeling Alright

Big Joe Turner - Shake Rattle and Roll

Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night

Joe Walsh - Funk #49
              Walk Away

Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis Group - I’m A Man

Warren Zevon - Lawyers Guns and Money

ZZ Top - La Grange

AND MORE - Always More...