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- www.myspace.com/biglightband
- City/Town/Locality:
- san francisco, california
- Genres/Styles:
- rock
pop
folk
psychdelic
- Members - Instruments:
- fred torphy - guitars, bass, vox
jamie fordyce - guitars, bass, moog, vox
colin hoops - keyboards, synthesizers
bradly bifulco - drums
- Bio:
- "we're experimental, but we also like to keep things tight, songwriting-wise," says torphy. "maybe that's where our love for jeff tweedy shines through." quick to shoot down any actual wilco comparison, torphy says that big light is more directly influenced by the songwriting of dire straits, the arrangements of the sea & cake, and the sensibilities of stephen malkmus than the artists that people frequently lump them with. and even these references he'll only offer after being shaken down for them.
"it's a lot of different things," offers drummer bradly bifulco. "many of our songs have distinctly different feels." bradly says that the secret behind the band's consistent sound might be found in torphy's songwriting, even though each song has its own "deliberately implied sonic idea."
another one of big light's notable friends, bassist steve adams from alo, also wanted to get involved. with alo currently on holiday (and keyboardist zack gill touring with jack johnson), adams began sitting-in on a couple of tunes with big light at a few of their early shows.
torphy and fordyce both moved to san francisco in 2005, playing off-and-on in the new england-based outfit, the white thighs. after recruiting bradly bifulco to play drums for the thighs, fred & jamie decided to start a more regular project after recording a few demos & playing some gigs as a trio. after they met keyboardist colin hoops through the local music scene they christened the project big light. the lineup was recently expanded to a seven-piece with the addition of multi-instrumentalist dan hurley ("another childhood friend of mine and jamie's," explains torphy.) and percussionist cochrane mcmillan.
-benjy eisen
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