THE GIRAFFES TALK ABOUT THEIR STYLE

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For a long time the fun and debauchery known from Rock and Roll bands has been lost. That is until Brooklyn, New York’s The Giraffes hit the scene. Earlier this month the band released the album, Having Fun, and it’s a self-explanatory as it gets.

The band recently took the stage for AmsterJam as part of its press run in support of the album. Backstage, bassist John Rosenthal (a noted Jazz enthusiast) and bassist Andrew Totolos, with guitarist Damien Paris providing background color were asked if it was hard to get their individual musical styles together in the Giraffes.

[Rosenthal] “No, we’re all very competent musicians.” [Totolos] “And we all have such different influences that we just pop in, they come in. He has his thing, I have my thing and he’s got his thing which you can see right now, Gay-asthenics and then they kind of mix. That’s the mashing, dude, right there, that’s the mashing. All of our influences mash together and it comes out that way.” [Rosenthal] And if you ever see Ultimate Fighting video that’s what our rehearsals are like.” [Totolos] “It’s true, I put this guy in a headlock many of times, ‘Write a riff! Now!!!”

The Giraffes were recently featured on the CBS Early Show this past Saturday, and they’re set for a fall run of dates culminating with Voodoo Fest in New Orleans the weekend of October 29 and 30.