Arcata Brothers

We played a festival in Benbow, CA and met this cool guy named Rudy while while we were late night jammin down by the Eel River. We told Rudy we were on the look out for a drummer, and he said he was a drummer/percussionist. We set up a date to jam up at his house in Arcata, and when we got there his friend Simon jumped in on the jam and was an awesome drummer as well. All of us hit it off, and on our second leg of the tour we stopped by Arcata again to audition these guys. Needless to say it went well, and on our third leg of our tour we stopped by Arcata again to pick them up for a ten day stint. All the TapWater people were worried about seven people traveling in our vehicle, Irvin, but it turned out that we couldn't have traveled with more chill dudes. It was a little crammed but turned out to be a great time. They caught up to speed quickly on most of our material with Simon playing a contraption "trap" kit and Rudy playing percussion and marimba. In addition to music these guys fit in to our picture of recreation as well with much disc golfing, swimming, bocce ball, chess, and of course moderate beer drinking ;} It was a great time, and we are all looking forward to more music and recreation with Simon and Rudy.