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OUT
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Mike Cibura, 2006 graduate, and Brody Buster, Lawrence resident, play as the Brody Buster and Mike Cibura Dirty Bites Duo on Thursday nights at the Jackpot Saloon
The Brody Buster Band has gigs lined up all over the country, but lead guitarist Mike Cibura and his bandmates call Lawrence home.
bv Matt Elder
amplifiers and other
Mike Clausen has learned to pack a whole lot of living into short periods of time in January, armed with an assortment of guitars.
music, equipment,
Cibura 2002, graduate,
headed west as the
lead guitarist of
The Brody Buster Band
The band spent a
week and half in
Colorado, played
a total of five shows.
After the release of their first album this
TONIGHT
March, the band will perform their anals of蓝 rock originations on stage in Oklahoma City, New York in California, Nevada and Colorado.
Traveling is nothing new to the members of The Brody Buster Band.
See The Body Buster
and Mike Cibura
Dirty Bites Duo at
6 p.m. on the 6. pm
play there every
Thursday night
playing harmonica since he was 7 years old. His talents allowed him to move to California to play professionally with B.B. King
Bryd Buster, the band's 21-year-old vocalist, rhythm guitar and harmonica player, has been
when he was barely a teenager. At the age of 14, Buster traveled to Switzerland to play the Montreux Jazz Festival with artists such as Quincy Jones, Phil Collins, Keb Mo and Isaac Hayes.
"Asakid,I'dplayed with everyone.
ever dreamed of playing with, Buster says.
Today, Buster and the four other men in the band call Lawrence home. Little Walter and Muddy Waters intertwine with the band's originals alongside crowd members from the Meters and War. By mixing traditional blues with cover songs seamlessly, the band has attracted
a varied crowd of loyal followers. They don't seem to have
"They don't see certain spot or bar that they play at in Lawrence." Dan Webb. Olathe senior says, "I need to be more active from bikers to students at their shows."
Jenny Osborn,
manager at
Jackpot Saloon, 943
Massachusetts.
St, has noticed the same
trends when Buster
and Cibura play every
week. The Brody Buster
and Mike Cibura
Dirty Shoes Duo.
"We have a regular crowd that comes in every week." Osborn says "There are a lot of them."
early for an eight-to-five. It's about half and half."
SET CHANGE
group trade solos during a set, which makes each night different for their Lawrence following.
"Most bands in Lawrence are doing 45 minutes sets and that's all that they've got" says Brody Buster, the group's vocalist, rhythm guitar and harmonica player. "We play nine to one three nights a week. We only the band that does that anymore."
The Brody Buster Bandxmusicmanages to transcend the racial confines often associated with what Buster considers to be America's true music form — the blues.
"There's an old, dead black blues man up in here," Buster says gesturing toward himself with complete sincerity.
Dead vocalist or not. The Brody Butter Band remains committed to their idea of pouring their blood, sweat and beers into every note they make. Luckily
majority of the time it's in our own backyard
Mike Cibura, lead guitar
BEYOND THE BAND
This 2006 graduate toured Europe with the country group The Ranch Hands for three months.
Chris Hazelton keyboard
Last summer, Hazelton played the invitation-only JVC Jazz Festival in New York. The festival is one of the most prestigious jazz festivals in the world.
Brody Buster.
Brody Buster, vocals, harmonica and guitar
mhymn guitar
When Buster was 7, his mother a traveling musician, gave him a hammonica.
Seven or eight years later, he says, he played the Montrose Jazz Festival in Switzerland alongside quince Jones, Kebek M. Mocha Kaiser, Isaac Hays and Phi Collins.
Buster has played on the *Tonight Show* with Jay Leno and has made appearances on Jerry Lewis, Googly, HM TV, MTV and Good Morning Japan.
On. Beale, Street in Memphis, Tenn., and in California, Buster played with blues on B.B. King in Lawnware. Buster has played venues with Robert Kelsey, Danny Finkleske, Goutle Mantel, Danny Lyonet,
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