Our History -- Well the pictures don't lie. I put on shows as a kid
with my brothers and sister and cousins. And, then I played
in a highschool basement band, The Weyco Dazzler, (the name was found on a Tomato case
box at Koppa's foods.) with some friends: Mike
and Ken Koppa, Peter Schmidt, Luther Himsel and Kurt Beren.
All of them are in some way still into live music,
and or are helping others set up. Then I played in
my fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa at UW- Whitewater, where my
friend Jarin (DEL MAR) and Jerry., and I wrote songs on a reel- to-reel tape recorder.
In the basement at college, I met a cool drummer
- Adam Urban. We jammed and wrote songs actually and played
out. Adam soon learned my guitar parts and so I could focus on vocals. And, Brian
Kalz simmered on electric guitar. We took some time off, reformed, and then Adam's
friend, Kevin Newell on Violin and was a natural also on mandoline. We
recorded songs in Adam's East side of Milwaukee Basement. It flooded. So, peacefully,
the
band all went they're seperate ways, for jobs requirments,
other gigs, and to live in The northwoods of Rhinelander, WI. The
band wanted to be called the:"Squash Thumpers". But,
I thought it was too much
like Smashing Pumpkins. We never offically all agreed not like
we argued. Ironically, the trio is playing today as a bluegrass-trio called " SOUP CAN ", and I hope to jam with them because
there last show brought the house down .
So, I used the The Largemouth Bass Band
(tm)(c).
It was a band name that I used on cassete tape albums,
"A Touch of Help"(c)- 1996, and "Kurt Beren The Weyco Dazzler"(c)
- 1994." And, I had made a vinyl banner and wanted to use it, 'because
it had LMBB . In 2001, I released a planned solo
CD. But, I learned of a legal term, a "derivative work",( it is a
cover song that sounds
different than the original). And at the last minute, I decided to put the groups songs
on the CD. But, the focus was to be my solo project. And mabey it wouldn't
be right to associate the band with my personal viewpoints. Usually they are cool on whatever I
do, so it was just me being uncomfortable with it (Although, they might be down with me on it -ha
ha). Then I change it "Kurt Beren Red Fish... Blue Fish",
because my friends liked it as a name. But,
after the successful solo CD release, I
felt that the Dr.Suess people would like sue me. And that there
is a hippie band in Michigan with that same name. Well
it is not a name, but I want people to remember the artist. And I hope
that other artists will want to jam with me soon. (give me a call ) So,
now I just have settled on:
KURT
BEREN THE LARGEMOUTH BASS BAND. (tm)
