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100 Monkeys have quickly been gaining more and more success with their perfect combination of funk and rock. With each member of the band able to play every instrument onstage, their live performance is constantly changing and always exciting. The band consists of accomplished artists Jackson Rathbone (who appears in such movies as “The Last Airbender,” and the “Twilight” saga), Ben Graupner (Trapped in the 5150, Devolved), Jerad Anderson (Wayne/Lauren Film Company), Lawrence Abramas (of the great Willie Bobo, Bob Hope U.S.O. tour, and The Artists Consortium), and Ben Johnson (of the Stevedores and music producer of Spencer Bell’s “Brain”). Check the band out at http://wwww.100monkeysmusic.com.
I had read about your “100 City Tour,” have you finished that up yet?
Graupner: We still haven’t finished it yet. There are several cities on there that we haven’t gotten a chance to get to yet, so we are just waiting to get back to finishing that up!
Where did the idea original come from?
Anderson: …one hundred monkeys. (laughs)
I guess that would be the obvious answer (laughs). I heard that you gave your fans an opportunity to pick the cities you hit?
Graupner: Yeah, it was completely fan-driven. The idea was to go where people wanted us to go, so people would go onto the website and vote for their city. Those cities we then ranked from one to one-hundred.
Every show you guys put on, you improv on the spot. How did that idea come together originally?
Johnson: I guess that happened because we have always jammed together, and improvised music together, and made up music together. Uncle Larry comes from a jazz background, and Ben and Jackson have always made up songs on the spot. It is really fund to do it on stage.
Rathbone: It’s representing of our writing process onstage, in a live manner. We really like to be able to write a song in a jam together. You get into a groove and then you develop words, and then the next day you might go out and record it or performed it. We wrote “Keep Awake” and then preformed it that same night. It has just been a staple of our brand of music I suppose.
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via @JRathboneOnline
100 Monkeys have quickly been gaining more and more success with their perfect combination of funk and rock. With each member of the band able to play every instrument onstage, their live performance is constantly changing and always exciting. The band consists of accomplished artists Jackson Rathbone (who appears in such movies as “The Last Airbender,” and the “Twilight” saga), Ben Graupner (Trapped in the 5150, Devolved), Jerad Anderson (Wayne/Lauren Film Company), Lawrence Abramas (of the great Willie Bobo, Bob Hope U.S.O. tour, and The Artists Consortium), and Ben Johnson (of the Stevedores and music producer of Spencer Bell’s “Brain”). Check the band out at http://wwww.100monkeysmusic.com.
I had read about your “100 City Tour,” have you finished that up yet?
Graupner: We still haven’t finished it yet. There are several cities on there that we haven’t gotten a chance to get to yet, so we are just waiting to get back to finishing that up!
Where did the idea original come from?
Anderson: …one hundred monkeys. (laughs)
I guess that would be the obvious answer (laughs). I heard that you gave your fans an opportunity to pick the cities you hit?
Graupner: Yeah, it was completely fan-driven. The idea was to go where people wanted us to go, so people would go onto the website and vote for their city. Those cities we then ranked from one to one-hundred.
Every show you guys put on, you improv on the spot. How did that idea come together originally?
Johnson: I guess that happened because we have always jammed together, and improvised music together, and made up music together. Uncle Larry comes from a jazz background, and Ben and Jackson have always made up songs on the spot. It is really fund to do it on stage.
Rathbone: It’s representing of our writing process onstage, in a live manner. We really like to be able to write a song in a jam together. You get into a groove and then you develop words, and then the next day you might go out and record it or performed it. We wrote “Keep Awake” and then preformed it that same night. It has just been a staple of our brand of music I suppose.
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