Two weeks and three rehearsals after their formation, the Fat Bastard Blues Band played their very first gig, winning the Triangle Blues Society’s 2009 Blues Challenge. Although they had little aspirations of playing past their first trip to the IBC's in Memphis, there was so much positive response there was really no choice but to continue.
The band was conceived in a moment of inspiration, but the individual Bastards have actually enjoyed a long history. Jason Simons (bass) and front man Carl Wetter had been performing together since their college days in upstate New York. Ed Mezynski (drums), Tim Collins (guitar), and David Terrenoire (harmonica) had met at a local blues jam ten years prior and had played together in one band or another ever since.
En masse, the Fat Bastards music jumps up and shakes a room with performances that mark this band as a force of nature, a blue wind that rattles the trees like an oncoming storm, winning the challenge for the Cape Fear Blues Society in 2013 and now for again for the Triangle Blues Society in 2015, all while having kept local fans dancing as if the floor was on fire.
Why Fat Bastards? We are the illegitimate children of all the players who have taken the stage before us. Our goal is to energize our roots by taking something from all of our influences and putting that cross-cultural magic back into the blues, America’s music.
We come out fat, with nothing held back.
Expect their first EP due out in 2016.
Tim Collins – Guitar
Jason Simons – Bass
Carl Wetter – Vocals, guitar
David Terrenoire- Harmonica
Ed Mezynski- Drums
