Maryland born rock and roll quartet, the Weber Brothers, have been playing rock and roll since they were knee-high to a grasshopper.
They will be a highlight of the South Country Fair this year, but will return to the Slice first on July 6 with rockabilly band the Classy Chassys.
They sent a demo tape to legend Ronnie Hawkins, who took them on board, put them up at his Peterborough farm and put them to work on the farm, then on stage with him. They moved to their own place near Peterborough and started touring the world.
Since then, brothers Sam and Ryan Weber along with keyboardist Shai Cookie Peer and drummer John Markus have released eight of their own albums and are working on a greatest hits Cd, which the fans will choose the songs.
“We’ve got eight albums out, so we thought it was about time,” said Ryan Weber adding they started a page on www.kapipal.com to raise money for the CD. http://www.kapipal.com/44ebc7c4369a4ec4b6b7950c87651542
“The list of all the songs is there and fans can vote on them,” Weber noted.
They are known for incendiary shows full of manic keyboard playing, lots of rockabilly and rock and roll guitar licks, lots of stand-up bass stunts, an unstoppable stand-up bass groove and a relentless foot-tapping beat.
They are looking forward to their debut at the South Country Fair on Saturday and possibly Sunday.
“It’s going to be the greatest show of all time,” promised Weber.
The show will be a more stripped down affair than the multi-media extravaganza they brought to Lethbridge a few months ago.
While last time they brought a whole light and multi-media show. This one will be more stripped down. He noted they alternate between recording CDs with a lot of studio extras and more bare bones affairs.
“It will just be the four of us playing our songs,” he said.
“The main reason is because it took us two hours to set up everything and another two hours after the show to tear it all down,” he said adding their usually alternate between big extravaganza for CDs as well as tours anyways. And their latest CD “The Baddest Band in the Land” is a more stripped down effort.
“We appreciate all of the support we’ve got. We’ll let the fans choose their favourite 12 songs then we‘ll re-record them in a studio with a really good producer and do them up right,” he said.
Playing fairs like the South Country Fair is a different experience than playing a crowded bar.
“ At a fair, we have to put everything into an hour,” he said adding a bar show allows them to stretch out a little more.
They’ll be playing a lot off the new CD as well as old favourites.
“We may even play a couple new songs.”
They actually took some rare time off during the winter.
“ We’re all in love,” Weber said.
“We stayed close to home for once, wrote some songs and played some local gigs. But now we’re excited to be on the road again and see our friends out west again.”
