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Bands enter and exit the doorways of clubs, bars, schools and stadiums day in and day out, weeknight after weekend. Some bands perform merely for the money; some do not. Eazy Four is a local band that enters and exits the doors of opportunities with the constant thought of “doing the next right thing.” Currently the next right thing for the band includes the kickoff for the Burn Bash tomorrow night.
Bob Reilly plays the acoustic guitar and sings, Matt Mc Cann plays the lead electric guitar, Jason Stolnis plays the bass guitar and Adam Chantry bangs on the drums.
The band came out with their first record “Come on Fantasy” last year and next year they plan to work on their next record while they are looking into how to do their own recording. Upcoming big events for the band include Saturday night at the Grape Street Pub in Mayunk, as well as a live recording at Fergie’s Pub in June, which will have no cover to attend.
“The band started as a way to make money,” Reilly said. “We were doing covers at dive bars that were paying pretty well. Now, we’ve been doing the original program for two years and it’s been phenomenal.” The original program includes songs from their first CD, but mostly consists of more recent original works. “We still continue to get better with time,” Reilly said.
Eazy Four has learned over these past two years a picture of music that they don’t want. “We really aren’t looking for the whole rock star life,” Reilly said. “We wouldn’t enjoy it. We want to get to the point where we can provide the fruit to live but also not over-expose ourselves.”
Inspiration for their music is found in all areas of life. “Our songs come from definitely everything around us,” McCann said. “Love, friends, society and the world.”
But the band currently has been strongly impacted by politics.
“We use our music to try and raise an awareness to social consciousness,” Mc Cann said. One of Eazy Four’s new songs, titled “Greed,” focuses on “our capitalistic society, which is in the pursuit of the dollar” rather than looking at the world without money-tunnel vision. “[Society] could be a lot different if we just looked at things differently,” Mc Cann said.
“We want to get people thinking about their environment and their role in it,” Reilly said.
“Inspiration takes on a lot of different forms,” Mc Cann said. Some musicians that have strongly affected the band have been Jeff Buckley and Ani DiFranco.
“We just basically want our music to do the same thing that music has done for us,” Reilly said. “We want to give the gift back.”
Eazy Four’s goal is to create music, travel around and be able to bring their friends along. The band pleases the good music follower as it groves Rock and Roll, Jazz, Blues and Soul all into one. Eazy Four plans to become more diverse through its following by branching out to New York routinely and possibly down South.
The band’s website is kept very fresh and up to date by Stolnis, the bass guitarist. The band’s schedule, a message board, pictures, live MP3s to download and other news like the CD pick of the week by Eazy Four and also by a fan can be found on the website.
The band encourages any interested to visit the site at www.eazyfour.com.
