Mario Calire: He is very hot!!!!As you all can see!He started playing the drums at age 8 and as we all know his hard work and great talents have paid off! Hey get this, he still lives with his parents! Isn't that cute? Hey girls this hottie is single and ready to mingle(and he is only 23!)
Jakob Dylan: Yeah baby!!!!!This guy is too perfect!And yes he is married, doesn't that just suck? He learned guitar at age 12 and played in different various bands in high school. Then formed the Wallflowers(yeah!), but it was basically a completly different band than it is now. Three of the member left to join other groups which left Jakob and Rami to start all over. The three former members of the Wallflowers are currently kicking themselves in the butt as you read this!
Rami Jaffe: This stud muffin never misses a note on that piano! He is the only member other than Jakob to have been in the band before these Wallflowers. Rami is married and recently had a baby girl with his wife Alicia, her name is Tovy.
Greg Richling: This awesome bass player went to high school with Jakob but went his own way after high school. Then Jakob called him up and asked him to join the best band in the world, the Wallflowers!Greg also plays on some of Fionna Apples tracks.Good job Greg!
Michael Ward: He is a great guitar player as you all know!This guy is so cool,he rides his motorcylce in between concerts(maybe he rides behind the tour bus?)hehe
Honest, exultant rock 'n' roll, ballads deft and soulful, lyrics that coax forth the full range of human feeling -The Wallflowers triumph with their second release, Bringing Down The Horse. The band's really happy with it, says the quintets main man, Jakob Dylan, It's been three years since our first record and this time out we tried to do something a little different, something a little more forward. That "first record" was no ordinary debut.
Released in 1992, The Wallflowers drew fast praise: commenting that "this album's rootsy sensibility, in this age of MIDI, seems almost classical in its purity..."theirs is music that wears well-and it's wise beyond its years", Rolling Stone awarded 3 1/2 stars; Musician, too,lauded the "impressive debut by a real rock 'n' roll band."
Its songs poetically suggestive, its power apparent from the first Telecaster surge, Bringinq Down The Horse builds off the strength of classic instrumentation. With Dylan on rhythm guitar, Michael Ward on lead, with drummer Mario Calire and bassist Greg Richling, plus keyboard ace Rami Jaffee alternating on Hammond B3 and piano, The Wallflowers deliver the unified force of a true ensemble.
Guest luminaries, including Michael Penn, Sam Phillips, Adam Duritz (Counting Crows), Gary Louris (the Jayhawks), Don Heffington (ex-Lone Justice) and Tom Petty stalwart Mike Campbell add texture and scope. With longtime Dylan friend T-Bone Burnett producing, the song selection is varied and astute, and the disc, recorded over a seven month period, sounds terrific. "On our last record we basically took an audio snapshot of the band performing the songs,"says Jakob Dylan. "This time T-Bone really helped us craft arrangements that brought dynamics to the songs"
Getting together in the early '90s, the Wallflowers began introducing their rootsy music to their native Los Angeles and finding a particularly congenial haven at the Kibitz Room of Canter's delicatessen, one of the town's more fabled hang-outs. Regularly appearing in the club's Tuesday nightjams, they drew crowds hungry for songs void of glitz and pretense, long on soul, smarts and feeling. From the early gigs came "Ashes to Ashes," "Sugarfoot",."Be Your Own Girl" and the other gems that would make the band's first album a standout. Rave ups, narratives and closely observed vignettes, their Iyrics dense and imagistic, the songs signalled the arrival of mature, distnct talent.
Critics took highly favorable notice, the group toured with 10,000 Maniacs, the Spin Doctors, Cracker and Toad the Wet Sprocket -and then came the growing pains that attend so many fresh outfits. The drummer moved on to play with Natalie Merchant (a fervent Wallflowers supporter) and other personnel changes followed. And while the search for a new record label was underway, the songwritting got sharper, more edgily defined.
Dylan and Jaffee found new bandmates Michael Ward and Greg Richling-who soon would shine on Bringing Down The Horse (with Calire not yet on board, the drums were played by Matt Chamberlain). Signed to Interscope, The Wallflowers pitched into recording.
From the soaring glide guitar on "6th Avenue Heartache" to the sly interweaving of funky organ and dobro on "One Headlight," the propulsive drumming on "The Difference" and Dylans heartfelt singing throughout, the results offer rich and satisfying listening. Sweet and plaintive "Josephine" contrasts with the rollicking "God Don't Make Lonely Girls", while, with "Invisible City," Jakob turns in some of his finest Lyrics:
"The imitation of good faith/is how you stumble upon hate/it may have been the first of mistakes/When we held on too loosely/And let open the gates."
Check the gorgeous pedal steel work by Nashville veteran Leo LeBlanc on "I Wish I Felt Nothing", a sometime "sixth member" of The Wallflowers (LeBlanc died shordy after recording was finished; the album is dedicated to him). "Three Marlenas" a bittersweet tribute to a desperado seeking release, and, on the gorgeous "Josephine" Jakob's vocals achieve a new, tender clarity.
For lovers, then, of music that hits hard yet then lingers, that grows deeper with each listening, Bringing Down the Horse is one sweet, tough, sassy gift. The Wallflowers, they're a band that matters, their songs capturing the raw, wondrous everyday mysteries of life itself.
