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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Vinny Benny.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is Josiah and Tink from the Slambobian Circus.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Josiah long Ago all right, lead vocals and Tink Lloyd.
I mean this is really something. Accordion, cello, flew, piccolo,
all the instruments that we were forced to play in
grade school when I was a kid, and now kids
fight to play those instruments.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And yeah, you've heard this and made us afford.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, well the cellist is that's a hot role in
a band nowadays. But the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, welcome
to the show. You guys have been around a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, we have been around a long time, man, Yeah,
we have been.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I didn't even realize until Fernando and I don't know
how well you know Fernando Pinto.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
He heard we we've met Fernando and we've heard good
things about him from Willie Nile and various friends of ours.
So we're trying at this club of his.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, he's a legend. Fernando's just he's been around. Uh
some of the best shows I saw when I was
a much younger man. We're thanking this guy brought Nirvana
to New Haven before anyone knew who they were, amazing
to a venue that didn't even have a stage. You're
gonna be at the small Batch Cellars on June eighth
(01:17):
this weekend, which a.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Very cool spot. It's like a winery right there. Are
you guys outside? Do you know if you're outside?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, we are. We're doing that vine and vibe thing that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah it's awesome, Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We've heard so many good things about him, you know,
and we bumped into him. He always seems like such
a cool guy.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So, oh he's a character. Yeah, I'm sure you guys
will get on very well. But he said to me,
are you gonna have a Slambovian on They're from Sleepy Hollow?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know, is that true? Or was it?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's where we started. You know, Slambobian moves around like
bringing dune. It disappears and appears. Now we're in the
Hudson Highlands. All of a sudden, we woke up. We
were in the Hudson Islands one morning. It's amazing, you know,
that's imagic it happened to us. Is the sixties. We're
really even though we look very young. We're actually kind
of a combination between the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Pink
(02:08):
Floyd's Basement.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, that's a good You know, I was going to
ask you you defy genre, you defy classification.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I wondered what you guys were comfortable going with.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, that's it, Finantin. We're a little you know, we're
blend of many things. It's all original stuff and it's
our own thing. But when people ask us to describe it,
I think that's it. We're kind of the Sergeant Pepper
aspect of the Beatles, a lot of Dylan verbiage kind
of stuff. But it's very floydy and it's very trippy
with slide guitar and live mandolin. Even so, you know,
(02:42):
we're always pushing the outlot, but it's it's fun. Unlets
everybody escape from the nonsense of the world for a
while and see the possibilities instead of what we're trapped in.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I saw a review of what your most recent I
think it's your most recent release A very unusual head.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, and you know, I.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Was as a music lover, I'd never mind a radio guy,
and I used to play a Christmas song by like
a long time ago, when I was doing Top forty radio,
we would do all Christmas shows.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I remember.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's why when I first became aware of Slambovian Circus
of Dreams.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
But when I read.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Punk classical Hillbilly Floyd, that just that just full covers it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I mean that hits everything.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, yeah, that's pretty close. That's pretty close.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Now Tink is that tink as in tinker Bell? Because
you're sprightly and whimsical and.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, and I'm full of I'm just full of trouble.
Like if you come to a show, if you look
at my end of the stage, it looks like a
junk store because I have I just accumulate instruments and
i'd play mostly accordion, which is why, you know. We
have a lot of comparisons to the band too, because
of the garth those Now I play a lot of
(04:02):
different things, but the same thing. It's more of an
energy thing. And when I met he's kind of like
a Peters Captain hook and he said, the tink I've
been looking for.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's fantastic. You know.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
When I look at all the instruments that you play too.
It's funny that you say mostly accordion. Accordion to me
looks like the most challenging of the I mean, you know,
that's a big clumsy thing to handle, and you got
to do twisted and contort it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
UH had an uncle who is in accordion. I'm Italian.
I think every Italian's got an uncle who plays accordion
at weddings, you know. And I was the only one
who really wasn't dismissive of him because I saw, like, damn,
he's working that thing.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
There's a lot you got to do.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You find one interest, one instrument, tink that you play
the most challenging of them all.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That was really hard. But I grew up playing playing
my voice is a little early morning, but you know,
I grew up. I grew up link Fluida and learned
he would. And then one day I saw an Irish
fan play. They were called the Rogues March, and it
was at a festival we were doing connected with the
UN for Human Rights or something, and I just had
(05:16):
an epiphany. I had a vision. There's this guy, Kenny Margolis,
who actually is the accordionist and keyword player for Crecker
back in the day. He was playing with this Irish
soap bed and he was playing this accordion and it
just mesmerized me, and I just it's like the dub
just setting from a buck. I just said, I'm going
(05:38):
to play that thing. And then everyone laughed at me
and said, you are You're crazy. But I had this accordion.
We had bought it for a music video we were
making as a you know, just prop. But I started
playing it and then I realized, you know, later years,
I realized, oh, my father played accordion. In course, he
(05:58):
passed away when I was young, but he's the ghost
and he haunts me at shows and he helps me play.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I love that. So you didn't know we played until
after we passed.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
No. No, I used to go to my grandmother's basement
and I'd see this big white accordion sitting at the
bottom of the basement stairs on the piano, and I go,
what the heck is that? But I was like, really young,
and then I never even asked about it. And then
I found out later, Oh, when my grandmother died, my
brother got the accordion and fixed it up out in Denver,
(06:29):
and it's like on the altar out there. So here
we have and you know what, this month is National
Accordion Months, So I'm going to be really rocking the
Accordion of Sunday in honor of all of you know,
all the poor Accordions ghosts.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Is that you even know of that? As Wild three?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Is there like an a magazine, Accordian magazine.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Have you been on the cover of Accordion magazine?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No, but you know you're giving me some ideas. I'll
talk to my publicist.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I love it, you should be. I can't wait to
see the show this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Now you say it's all original stuff, No, I would
love like a especially with the Pink Floyd references and
uh you know, uh, I would no covers in the
Slambovian Circus of Dreams set. There's got to be a
Beatles song that you do a twisted version of gotta.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Be Yeah, we stick covers in Vinnie and a lot
of times in the songs themselves. I'll do it, you know,
We'll jump off and do a quote from something that
you know. So that's why you know we get away
with being an original band, you know, all these years
without having to compromise because there's enough stuff in there,
things that we love, things that we all love, those
little pieces of music flute in and out of stuff.
(07:44):
So there Beetle quotes, Woodian quotes, Dylan's quotes.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A treasure hunt. It's like a treasure Yeah. I love that.
I love that it is.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But also it is because we just passed Dylan Dylan's birthday.
We do a pretty killer version of almost any all
the older Dylan rapid cloth. So we'll always bring in
some Dylan.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You know, we're going to do that, especially from the
period that they made the movie about, you know Dylan period.
We know the first time took the accordion, brought Hudson
from the band, showed us and then you know, just
out of nowhere, he walked into this little place that
we were playing before she played her first note to
our accordion, and you know, he became like her guru
(08:31):
and showed up the things and would strap She's got
like a student model accordion, strapped on this little accordion
across his big barrel chest and playlist, and we knew them.
We thought, man, there's some magic happening with this band.
Guard to keep killing up and uh, you know. So
we we just recently went to Garth's wake and it
pulled us back in the Woodstock that we hadn't been
(08:53):
in for a while, and that everybody that knew Dylan
around that period, you know that from the band in
the Nashville Skyline. So we thought, okay, let's pull a
couple of building covers. So there's a couple of things
even from the movie that we do.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I enjoyed the movie too, actually, you know, I thought
it was a great movie. I can't wait to see
this show. The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Josiah Tink wonderful
chatting with both of you, and I'll see you. It's Sunday,
right your your Sunday this weekend as small.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Back Sunday, it's at day.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I love those you'll see.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's a great setup, and I love that it's a
Sunday afternoon show. Those were my jam all last summer.
They just started last summer. So I love that you're
part of the Wine and Vine series, and I hope
to me sometimes Fernando has me bring the acts on stage,
so you might get stuck with me. I might have
to bring you out.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Good many good we'll look forward to I like that
you s I thought you meant for Bernanda asked you
to bring the act to get rid of the bad act.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, no, I love it. I can't wait until Sunday.
I'll see you guys, and hopefully I bring you on
stage on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Cool Vinnie, that'll be awesome sport to see in you, man.
Spread of time is guaranteed for all
Hey, this is Vinny Benny.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is Josiah and Tink from the Slambobian Circus.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Josiah long Ago all right, lead vocals and Tink Lloyd.
I mean this is really something. Accordion, cello, flew, piccolo,
all the instruments that we were forced to play in
grade school when I was a kid, and now kids
fight to play those instruments.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And yeah, you've heard this and made us afford.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, well the cellist is that's a hot role in
a band nowadays. But the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, welcome
to the show. You guys have been around a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, we have been around a long time, man, Yeah,
we have been.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I didn't even realize until Fernando and I don't know
how well you know Fernando Pinto.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
He heard we we've met Fernando and we've heard good
things about him from Willie Nile and various friends of ours.
So we're trying at this club of his.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, he's a legend. Fernando's just he's been around. Uh
some of the best shows I saw when I was
a much younger man. We're thanking this guy brought Nirvana
to New Haven before anyone knew who they were, amazing
to a venue that didn't even have a stage. You're
gonna be at the small Batch Cellars on June eighth
(01:17):
this weekend, which a.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Very cool spot. It's like a winery right there. Are
you guys outside? Do you know if you're outside?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, we are. We're doing that vine and vibe thing that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah it's awesome, Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We've heard so many good things about him, you know,
and we bumped into him. He always seems like such
a cool guy.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So, oh he's a character. Yeah, I'm sure you guys
will get on very well. But he said to me,
are you gonna have a Slambovian on They're from Sleepy Hollow?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know, is that true? Or was it?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's where we started. You know, Slambobian moves around like
bringing dune. It disappears and appears. Now we're in the
Hudson Highlands. All of a sudden, we woke up. We
were in the Hudson Islands one morning. It's amazing, you know,
that's imagic it happened to us. Is the sixties. We're
really even though we look very young. We're actually kind
of a combination between the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Pink
(02:08):
Floyd's Basement.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, that's a good You know, I was going to
ask you you defy genre, you defy classification.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I wondered what you guys were comfortable going with.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, that's it, Finantin. We're a little you know, we're
blend of many things. It's all original stuff and it's
our own thing. But when people ask us to describe it,
I think that's it. We're kind of the Sergeant Pepper
aspect of the Beatles, a lot of Dylan verbiage kind
of stuff. But it's very floydy and it's very trippy
with slide guitar and live mandolin. Even so, you know,
(02:42):
we're always pushing the outlot, but it's it's fun. Unlets
everybody escape from the nonsense of the world for a
while and see the possibilities instead of what we're trapped in.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I saw a review of what your most recent I
think it's your most recent release A very unusual head.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, and you know, I.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Was as a music lover, I'd never mind a radio guy,
and I used to play a Christmas song by like
a long time ago, when I was doing Top forty radio,
we would do all Christmas shows.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I remember.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's why when I first became aware of Slambovian Circus
of Dreams.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
But when I read.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Punk classical Hillbilly Floyd, that just that just full covers it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I mean that hits everything.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, yeah, that's pretty close. That's pretty close.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Now Tink is that tink as in tinker Bell? Because
you're sprightly and whimsical and.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, and I'm full of I'm just full of trouble.
Like if you come to a show, if you look
at my end of the stage, it looks like a
junk store because I have I just accumulate instruments and
i'd play mostly accordion, which is why, you know. We
have a lot of comparisons to the band too, because
of the garth those Now I play a lot of
(04:02):
different things, but the same thing. It's more of an
energy thing. And when I met he's kind of like
a Peters Captain hook and he said, the tink I've
been looking for.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's fantastic. You know.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
When I look at all the instruments that you play too.
It's funny that you say mostly accordion. Accordion to me
looks like the most challenging of the I mean, you know,
that's a big clumsy thing to handle, and you got
to do twisted and contort it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
UH had an uncle who is in accordion. I'm Italian.
I think every Italian's got an uncle who plays accordion
at weddings, you know. And I was the only one
who really wasn't dismissive of him because I saw, like, damn,
he's working that thing.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
There's a lot you got to do.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You find one interest, one instrument, tink that you play
the most challenging of them all.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That was really hard. But I grew up playing playing
my voice is a little early morning, but you know,
I grew up. I grew up link Fluida and learned
he would. And then one day I saw an Irish
fan play. They were called the Rogues March, and it
was at a festival we were doing connected with the
UN for Human Rights or something, and I just had
(05:16):
an epiphany. I had a vision. There's this guy, Kenny Margolis,
who actually is the accordionist and keyword player for Crecker
back in the day. He was playing with this Irish
soap bed and he was playing this accordion and it
just mesmerized me, and I just it's like the dub
just setting from a buck. I just said, I'm going
(05:38):
to play that thing. And then everyone laughed at me
and said, you are You're crazy. But I had this accordion.
We had bought it for a music video we were
making as a you know, just prop. But I started
playing it and then I realized, you know, later years,
I realized, oh, my father played accordion. In course, he
(05:58):
passed away when I was young, but he's the ghost
and he haunts me at shows and he helps me play.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I love that. So you didn't know we played until
after we passed.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
No. No, I used to go to my grandmother's basement
and I'd see this big white accordion sitting at the
bottom of the basement stairs on the piano, and I go,
what the heck is that? But I was like, really young,
and then I never even asked about it. And then
I found out later, Oh, when my grandmother died, my
brother got the accordion and fixed it up out in Denver,
(06:29):
and it's like on the altar out there. So here
we have and you know what, this month is National
Accordion Months, So I'm going to be really rocking the
Accordion of Sunday in honor of all of you know,
all the poor Accordions ghosts.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Is that you even know of that? As Wild three?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Is there like an a magazine, Accordian magazine.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Have you been on the cover of Accordion magazine?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No, but you know you're giving me some ideas. I'll
talk to my publicist.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I love it, you should be. I can't wait to
see the show this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Now you say it's all original stuff, No, I would
love like a especially with the Pink Floyd references and
uh you know, uh, I would no covers in the
Slambovian Circus of Dreams set. There's got to be a
Beatles song that you do a twisted version of gotta.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Be Yeah, we stick covers in Vinnie and a lot
of times in the songs themselves. I'll do it, you know,
We'll jump off and do a quote from something that
you know. So that's why you know we get away
with being an original band, you know, all these years
without having to compromise because there's enough stuff in there,
things that we love, things that we all love, those
little pieces of music flute in and out of stuff.
(07:44):
So there Beetle quotes, Woodian quotes, Dylan's quotes.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A treasure hunt. It's like a treasure Yeah. I love that.
I love that it is.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But also it is because we just passed Dylan Dylan's birthday.
We do a pretty killer version of almost any all
the older Dylan rapid cloth. So we'll always bring in
some Dylan.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You know, we're going to do that, especially from the
period that they made the movie about, you know Dylan period.
We know the first time took the accordion, brought Hudson
from the band, showed us and then you know, just
out of nowhere, he walked into this little place that
we were playing before she played her first note to
our accordion, and you know, he became like her guru
(08:31):
and showed up the things and would strap She's got
like a student model accordion, strapped on this little accordion
across his big barrel chest and playlist, and we knew them.
We thought, man, there's some magic happening with this band.
Guard to keep killing up and uh, you know. So
we we just recently went to Garth's wake and it
pulled us back in the Woodstock that we hadn't been
(08:53):
in for a while, and that everybody that knew Dylan
around that period, you know that from the band in
the Nashville Skyline. So we thought, okay, let's pull a
couple of building covers. So there's a couple of things
even from the movie that we do.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I enjoyed the movie too, actually, you know, I thought
it was a great movie. I can't wait to see
this show. The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Josiah Tink wonderful
chatting with both of you, and I'll see you. It's Sunday,
right your your Sunday this weekend as small.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Back Sunday, it's at day.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I love those you'll see.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's a great setup, and I love that it's a
Sunday afternoon show. Those were my jam all last summer.
They just started last summer. So I love that you're
part of the Wine and Vine series, and I hope
to me sometimes Fernando has me bring the acts on stage,
so you might get stuck with me. I might have
to bring you out.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Good many good we'll look forward to I like that
you s I thought you meant for Bernanda asked you
to bring the act to get rid of the bad act.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, no, I love it. I can't wait until Sunday.
I'll see you guys, and hopefully I bring you on
stage on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Cool Vinnie, that'll be awesome sport to see in you, man.
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