Finally the conclusion to the LBP/Bro Sure story.

Also, check out Ian Tomsic (plays on the entire Moses Guest record)
sitting in with an all-instrumental LBP this week at Deans. James on
Drums and no Phyve this week.

Wednesday June 18, 2003
Little Brother Project
Deans Credit Clothing

Thursday June 19, 2003
Drop Trio
Brasil
2604 Dunlavy

(continued from last week)
Then our search began for a new member. The record will sit on the
back burner and we will move Marc to guitar and search for a new
drummer. We felt it was the easiest transition. To find a guitar
player that would happily learn the parts the way Andy wrote them,
would be much more difficult than to replace a rhythm instrument.
Or so we thought.

We placed dozens of ads for funk drummers. Every time we got a
reply it was the same thing. "I know funk, I am so funky I stink,
you NEED to try me out. I am the one!!"
Then he would show up and if it was not a drum solo the entire
audition, he played like we were Metallica - not that there is
anything wrong with that (THINK SEINFELD).
This happened about twenty times in one year. We even got pretty
far with a couple of really good drummers. They would learn just
enough of the material, but then would not show up at the gig.
Pretty embarrassing, although I do understand. We had taken a year
off and were back to the "no pay" gigs. It's all an investment.

Finally we received an email from a young drummer from Louisiana.
Daniel Beatty tried out on two separate occasions. We loved his
playing but he was about to go into the National Guard. This would
set us back too far. So we tried looking a bit more to no avail.
We saw that Daniel really wanted to be a part of this project and
decided to go with the gamble of time. We knew he was worth the
wait, it was just killing us that we had to finish this record and
wait to play it.

So the band went back into the studio while he was gone. Marc
fronted the money for the record and rerecorded all of the guitar
tracks replacing Andy's. There are a few of Andy's on there still
but it's mostly Marc. We had decided on the name of the record to
be "Urban Ocean". Inspired by the endless sea of freeways in
Houston.

Enter Little Brother Project

Daniel leaves for the Guard and we have eight months before Bro Sure
can play again. Coy and Marc decided to do a side project to stay
busy. We wanted it to relate to Bro Sure but not be Bro Sure.
Hence the Little "BRO"ther Project, aren't we tricky. We found a
club that would allow us to get paid to practice improvisation,
which was our goal. We lucked out from some very good connections
and secured a home at Deans Credit Clothing, an old clothing store
from the 1940's that has been converted into a bar in downtown
Houston, TX.

Each week we play three sets of all instrumental funk and groove
based improvised psychedelic music. (That's a mouthful. Try
explaining it to someone). Over this period of time, Marc and Coy
changed musically and LBP started to gain some steam. Daniel came
back to reclaim his throne and the Bro Sure record was ready to
sell. It had been two years of work on the record and over a year
since a real Bro Sure show.

We did some small shows and realized that our fans were a little
confused. We had definite Bro Sure fans as well as LBP fans. We
were playing under both bills and trying to keep it separate. PHYVE
would show up at some LBP shows to sing a song and Bro Sure had
become much more jam band styled. That is when we realized that it
has all been so closely intertwined that it really was the same
band. It got to the point where if you booked Bro Sure you got the
new band, Little Brother Project and vice versa.

This is when we realized that there was no more Bro Sure. We had
grown into a much more freeform and jam style band with 40 minutes
of improvised jams and 20 minutes of 4-5 actual songs. No two shows
will ever be the same .We are making both fan bases happy. PHYVE
sounds better than ever and the band is at its best with musical
communication.

Bro Sure is dead. It died with Andy's departure. We just carried
the torch and reinvented the wheel. LBP plays all of the Bro Sure
songs because we wrote them all. The record sounds great and gives
you an inside look to who we are and how we will continue to grow.
You will never know what to expect except bigger and better things.
We have just found out that Marc has been nominated in this years
Houston Press Awards for "Best Guitar Player".

We have always been the best of friends. When we aren't playing we
are hanging out. Andy was always one of more creative members of
the band. It is understood why he felt the need to move on. We
wish him the very best.

I would like to thank all of you for nominating me in the Houston
Press Awards. It means more to me than you will ever know. Thanks,

~Marc Reczek
Little Brother Project
Drop Trio

P.S. The first 100 versions of "Urban Ocean" will be printed as Bro
Sure with an alternate cover. Get yours while they last. Once they
are gone they will all be printed at Little Brother Project. Don't
see it as a silly marketing strategy from Marc's clever mind, see it
as something you can sell on Ebay in 10 years. Woooooooooo
whoooooooooo.

www.littlebrotherproject.com
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trio!
Listen to an entire Drop Trio set from the Last Concert Café from
5/10/03
http://www.droptrio.com/Music/lcc_5-10-03.html

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