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Porch Daddies (Michael Babb & Stephen Quigley)
Michael Babb
My first album was the Eagle's greatest hits (Vol. 2), and I got my first guitar around the sixth grade, I think. It was a catgut "beginner's" guitar my Mom got me from J.C. Penny's. My Dad had shown me the boogie woogie riff the summer before, and I would strum it every now and again, but my interest in it didn't peak until he gave me his old six string when I was about sixteen. Never having the luxury of music lessons, I picked out what I could slowly. From the radio, my friends, anywhere I could. As a result, I'm told I have this weird, unique, choppy, rhythmic style.
I played in a few coffeehouses in high school, alone, and in another duo called 'Glass Puzzle'. It was short lived, but that's when I made my first attempt at songwriting. Along the way I learned how to play a few beats on various hand drums and percussion. Many years later of on again-off again playing and writing tunes, and I met Stephen in early 1996. That was the musical path that lead me to the 'Porch Daddies'.
My musical interests are as eclectic as how I learned to play. My Dad turned me on to Ricky Scaggs and my Mom, 70's top 40, and the Beatles. As I grew and found a genre I didn't know about yet, I usually found something to like about it. The Dead, JD Crowe, Billie Holliday, Moxie Fruvus...it's all good.
My interests in production came later. I came to love all the sound and mixing work that goes into producing a recording. Co-producing our stuff, especially the newer stuff has been a lot of fun.
Stephen Quigley
After countless performances at coffee houses and open mic nights since 1984, the two gigs I remember the most were a "Here & Now" concert on the south coast near Big Sur, CA. At Essalen Center we invited the famed African Drummer Baba Olatunji to join us for our whole second set. By the end of the set people were mostly naked dancing around the auditorium.
The other gig was at Golden Gate Park, SF, CA. A Ben & Jerry's Free concert "Here & Now" was the opening band. That concert we opened up for "Santana", "Michelle Shocked", "Hot Tuna" and "Blues Travelers". What an experience!
I played music in the band "Here & Now" until 1994 in various forms of "Here & Now". Ruder Alice was one of these bands playing in the San Francisco Bay area and getting great airplay on KFOG and other SanFracisco area radio stations.
From 1994-1995 I played in a band called 'Greenbrea Daze'. This was my favorite musical collaboration yet. 'Greenbrea Daze' was the most progressive rockin' band I played with. Everything from drums to bass to vocals blew my mind and especially the prismatic lightning leads that Gus Julin smoked out.
After 'Greenbrea Daze' I left California to live in Mountains somewhere east of the mississippi. We planned two trips one to the south and one to the north. After comming to the Blue Ridge Mountains we didn't want to leave. We found a nice house in the mountains. That is where the Porch Daddies started jamming.
After years of porch jammin' and recording some great CDs, sorry to say the Porch Daddies are no longer.
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| Porch Daddies on Wikipedia |
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