Identical Strangers

[jfrey]

I thought I'd start a thread for my dad's band Identical Strangers. Not to be confused with some Christian rock band that went by the same name years back.

They're classic rock - think: Allman Brothers + Beatles + the Police.

You'd all like him. He's about 83 times cooler than I am - ie. has music out, has a pilots license, owns a business that's been featured in a bunch of magazines, drives a race-car from the 50s that has won several show awards, has instruments that cost individually more than my entire collection, etc. He isn't really up with the times, and so doesn't get why there aren't a whole lot of purchases of the physical cd copies. Anyway, I'd like to help him out by getting his band a little more of an audience.



They started in the late 60's or early 70's (I can't remember which) as The Rags, and were briefly very popular in their area. They had a few setbacks: The manager of the Rolling Stones came to see them play but then left before they started when the Rolling Stones got in a fight with some other band, they got a record deal but some of them being minors required their parents to sign for them which one or two of them wouldn't do because they wanted doctors or some such nonsense, etc. And after that broke up.

They started up again just a couple years ago and released an EP.

Here's two tracks from their original demo from back in the day (pretty different stylistically, and I actually like them better here - check out the short solo at 2:08 in Gentle Woman, not super complex or anything but I always thought it sounded great):

Gentle Woman
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/jfrey/gentle-woman[/soundcloud]

Iced Tea
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/jfrey/iced-tea[/soundcloud]

And here is where you can listen to/buy their new stuff:
http://identicalstrangers.bandcamp.com/
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If you look at the picture of the Rags on the site my dad's the one on the far left.

[Seedy]

It's really good, your dad sounds awesome.

[sjtele]

Great tunes. Good to hear he's still doin what he loves to do.

[jfrey]

Thanks guys. He is really good. I'm trying to convince him that it's worth it to put out another cd like he's been planning to.

Just to share some more stuff, here is his basic setup that he uses most often. Pretty simple but really fantastic stuff:



And another of his guitars in a photo taken with his car:



That car is the reason I needed to take out a bunch of loans for college. It's also what I learned to drive in. 4 speed standard, no power anything, steers like an ocean liner, but powerful like you would not believe from a car that was made in '58.

[Nychthemeron]

Dude. That track is pretty legit sounding, and the setup right there is insane. Especially that car. Daaaaaaamn.

[jfrey]

Uploaded another track from their old demo. In the OP.

[Holy Schnikes]

I love that band name!

[jfrey]

[jfrey]

Anyone listen to their new stuff on their site also?

[sonidero]

Yeah your dad's two songs are great and Solitaire's got me feeling ire...

[mathias]

Listening to the stuff on their site, after listening to the two in this thread. Great stuff. Digging it.

[jfrey]

Just put up a Bandcamp for them, and a thread in the B/S/T.

http://identicalstrangers.bandcamp.com/
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