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Mariospeedwagon
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Mariospeedwagon
ok... so...
Who are these guys? & Who cares?
(I'll tell ya anyway...)
Four guys (sometimes five) who play twice as many instruments & have been performing in the SF bay area for over ten years all the while avoiding fame, fortune, a recording contract, press and an album. No small feat in this age if done on purpose. These guys are a lot of fun live! They have been described as a class room with a substitute teacher. Musically they are part marx brothers part jug like playing styles from jazz to country to ragtime to ska to blues with even a pretty sensitive number or two slipped in there. the topics they rant about span from local trends, politics, gas guzzlers, sour love, plane crashes, american gluttony and annoying caffeine addicts.
they are:
Mario DeSio
reluctant leader, guitarist, singer and composer of their original material.
Bill Pezzaglia
tuba player, trombonist, clarinetist ragtime pianist & astrologist.
Tom Meshishnek
Guitarist, banjo, piano, mandolin, bass, any string instrument ya got player.
David Sobel
Drummer & washboard player, clown and heartbreaker of young girls.
(Want more?... you fool! no one dares go beyond this point!)
(Run now while you still can!)
(If you scroll down further I can't help you)
(You're entering musical adolescence)
(and an ego wasteland Dante missed in his rings of hell where lost souls talk your ear off about their bands)
ok,
I'm warning you...
the parenthesis have come off...
STOP!
DON'T DO IT!
STOP!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...
For years in SF there has been this wacky juglike (not old timey) yet original group. There have been two versions of this band. the first was created after an open mic at the now defunct "Owl &Monkey Cafe" When Mario discovered that the physics professor who hung around there and graded papers was in fact a tuba player laying low, hiding out from marching bands and ragtime groups. Being just a smidgen too cool for that he was bidding his time talking to young girls till something musically great would come along worthy of his lips. At a pizza joint they decided to form the band. Mario knew a washboard and harmonica player named "Sweetwater" and enlisted him quickly. Next was a trumpet player named Kirk who was a friend of a friend and the group was complete for a few years till and ex girlfriend threatened to kill Kirk when he married and he fled the country leaving no trace for the other guys to follow. In his search for a trumpet replacement Mario founded another band called Tapwater and the speedwagon fell like a teenage crush. A few years later reconciliation between Mario and Professor Bill reared it's cute head and the band was reassembled. This time at a new cafe where all the SF folkies were gathering called the "Bazaar Cafe". The new host of that open mic, and long time associate musician Tom Meshishnek suggested it's time to have Mariospeedwagon again. Tom joined the group and so did fellow songwriter David Sobel who put the guitar aside for this venture and picked up the washboard and snare drum. Still to this day no one can find Kirk... and Sweetwater, well he's riding high on the old timey circut and we wish him well.
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