Dan was the modal player who’d taken Royal Trux firmly out of scuzz rock territory and imbued them with the slick, busy, hard rock groove that punctuated that band’s major label period. The idea finally began to take shape with the introduction of Dan Brown as bassist. A band that would blend James’s bent for plaintive, sun-scorched lyricism and Nick’s craving for a return to the Cosmic American musical landscape that encouraged wilful abandonment of simple rock ‘n’ roll song structures into ecstatic, exploratory jams. In the years that followed, during a number of extended tour hangs in both Manchester, UK and Lexington, KY, they began talking about the idea of forming a band together. They not only discovered a shared love of Crazy Horse, The Grateful Dead, Little Feat, NRBQ and Dylan, but also realized they’d arrived at their mutual tastes via an uncanny trajectory through teenage metal goofin’, early adulthood Royal Trux obsession, years exploring the weirdo crevices of the improvisational psychedelic underground and a slow ascent back to the surface of celebratory, heart-wrenching guitar music. Singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth (better known by his nom de plume, Wooden Wand) and guitarist Nick Mitchell-Maiato (better known as the founder of UK psychedelic rock band Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura) met while James was on tour in the UK, back in 2008. = Please welcome to the line up of the Static Roots Festival 2019
= ‘An unabashed, triumphantly affectionate recreation of what Gram Parsons called Cosmic American Music – the country, folk and blues-informed psychedelic rock of the late 1960s and early 70s.’ Click for more information: One Eleven Heavy cancel European summer tour