Welcome to the Echo Grove Blog!
This should replace the feedback forum that we used to have on our old site. Feel free to post here. - Paul
posted by Paul Fresty @ 10:35 AM
This is your place, and ours, to post any and all information about Echo Grove.
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- Name: Paul Fresty
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Paul Fresty is Creative Director at Optiem in Cleveland, Ohio. Optiem is an interactive marketing firm that helps clients develop bold marketing strategies that produce results — online and off. We build brands and websites. We get email and search. We love design and are always on the lookout for the next big thing. But we also understand that marketing's future will require a mix of fuels - fossil and alternative, traditional and digital.
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I am posting here to try the new blog. Blog? That's a strange word. I hope you all enjoy the new blog like I will enjoy the new blog.
Johnnie
Hey,
Didn't u used to play at Fairview High?
Neato
Yep... Graduated there 1983. We were known as Stonehenge at that time... but if you look closely, you will see the same 4 guys... pitiful huh?
Yes..very very pitiful.
Well, doesn't age make you better? I think you guys sound great...love the music....and you're all still Cool....even if you're close to 40.
It may be pitiful... but we have always made music for the right reasons... and no one will be able to take that away from us. And honestly, it may not be the Beatles, but we will leave a legacy of music. That is more than most other people can say. If that is something to pity, then you go right ahead. LOL
Echo Grove took over the stage last weekend at that bar in North Olmstead. When is the next gig?
Cool Cleveland Sounds
Echo Grove
Assah Mahtak Afakt
FameTrack
Over the years, the phrase "there's a lot of musical talent in Cleveland" has been thrown on the table during a debate. But, it's rare for an original band to hang on to what it wants to do for a very long time. Many area musicians start out doing their own music and eventually morph into playing classic rock or, even worse, lounge music. Reggae, jazz and blues bands in Cleveland seem to live forever, but when it comes to original rock, bands seem to have a short shelf life. Then there are the exceptions like the band Echo Grove. They don't play out every week-end at some club where you have to sell tickets like a Ponzi scheme to all your relatives just to get a gig. Echo Grove doesn't put out a lot of music, with Assah Mahtak Afakt being only their second released disc. Yet, after meeting in school twenty plus years ago, the core of the band is still together, hanging out and putting their ideas into the grooves. Assha Mahtak Afakt will throw some people off, due to the cover art work, many thinking it is some kind of raga rock fare a la Kula Shaker. Although some overtones are there, thanks to Billy Sullivan's guest sitar, the disc is what I would call old school eclectic. There's hard rock and pop and country (old brick house school, on that one) dotted throughout the project that is a potpourri of styles. Sounds include music to get a serious beating by during "I Like You Too" to the aforementioned country tune "I'll Never Know," with an assist from Brian Hukill's piano and Bob Feinberg's pedal steel work. "Go To The Womb" has a psychedelic overtone to it as "5th Of May" is a throwback to when pop wasn't a dirty word. Guest Ron Latare welds some trumpet into "It's Me (It Isn't You)" and Echo Grove shows off their roots via the Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart-written "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone," the latter tune so juiced, it would probably be called to Congress to testify against Barry Bonds. Jethro Tull once had a release titled Too Old To Rock n' Roll, Too Young to Die! Thanks to their latest release, Echo Grove proves that theory very, very wrong.
from Cool Cleveland contributor Peanuts hostofthenorthcoast@yahoo.com
I'm listening to your new CD as I write this, amazing guys, I knew you were good, even if I've never seen you all live. I forgot what real rock sounded like.
Maybe you will get the next one out just a bit quicker.
Awesome job guys...and I love to hear you sing Johnnie...always sounds like you're having a party.
Me
What's goin' on? Nice website! Glad to see you guys are still at it. 26 years or so right? C'mon down to Columbus.
Russ Graziano
What can I say? You guys have had some great cookouts. I've lost at least a percent of my hearing with some of youze, and it was always worth it.
Always knew you guys would amount to something. Psycho Magnet was great, and I'm expecting Assah Mahtah Afakt to be even better. Somebody send me a copy; anybody do PayPal?
Any plans for a video or short film? I encourage you to consider it. I mean, how entertaining would that be?! Better then Ren & Stimpy! Dump it to MPG and get a whole new internet fan base. Great way to get your Assah out of Cleveland.
Hi guys...havent seen you in YEARS! email me at dietcokefreak39@aol.com....would love to hear from you! Tina Mooney-Welborne
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