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About Let's Have A Pancake
Review ****...eccentric pop gems...inspiring... -- Scott Schinder, Tower Pulse ...like filling a music store with laughing gas, turning eight wonderfully talented virtuosos very loose inside...seriously sharp and spirited... -- Michael Hochanedel, Schenectady Daily Gazette Fast and giddy and loose as a clowns drawers, his Philharmonic sounds like the Q saluting Louie Jordan. -- Rob Tannenbaum, Village Voice Product Description Hot on the heels of 1999s "Ivan in Paris" comes the first all-studio album from Chandler Travis in more than two decades, plus the debut of the world's only alternative dixieland band, the Chandler Travis Philharmonic. This reckless aggregation of disparate instruments (horns, mandocello, accordion, guitar, etc.) and ideas (gorgeous ballads, loopy lyrics, and all-out assaults on everything we know as pop) has been throwing New Englanders for serious loops for the last couple of years with a live show that Jim Macnie of the Village Voice says is "a keenly entertaining blend of the Ringling Bros. and Ra that puts the harm back in Philharmonic!" "Let's Have a Pancake" features some of Boston's best horn players, wonder drummer/Incredible Casual Rikki Bates, keyboardist Keith Spring (NRBQ, MARTIN MULL), and cameos from NRBQ's Terry Adams and Big Al Anderson. About the Artist The Chandler Travis Philharmonic was born in the fall of 1996 at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, on the occasion of Chandler (best known for his work with the Incredible Casuals and Travis & Shook) doing a guest shot there with a house band led by multi-instrumentalist/singer Dinty Child. When asked if he would like to add any additional instrumentation, Chandler, having always hated when elderly bands ran out of ideas to this extent, facetiously suggested oh yeah, lets get some horns and chick back-up singers. Having worked with Chandler on many occasions previously (and consequently lusting for revenge), Dinty complied with the horn part, booking (among others) crazy trumpeter Keiichi Hashimoto, and lo and behold, it worked! Later on, cross-dressing drummer Rikki Bates, a pal of Chandler's from the Casuals and one of the more amazing instrumentalists on the planet, and Keith Spring, (NRBQ, Martin Mull) helped complete the picture. Since then, the band -all colorfully garbed 8 pieces of them - have introduced the concept of alternative dixieland to dumbfounded/delighted audiences all over Massachusetts (most frequently in Cambridge at the Middle East, Toad, or the Lizard Lounge; or on Cape Cod at the Beachcomber), with occasional excursions beyond (on their three successful visits to the Mercury Lounge in NYC, the Village Voice declared them keenly entertaining, called Chandler "a true New England eccentric and a master of daft power pop", and the band "a blend of Ringling Bros. and Ra" that "puts the harm back in Philharmonic.)
