OneNiteStand
band bio:
ONENITESTAND
HOW IT ALL STARTED
In some dark and musty room (probably was the Stinky Studio located in some remote location in Upper Burton) in 2012, some obscure Islanders Luke, Fletcher, Duane, Gib, and Slab wanted to form a band to do a one-night gig on Vashon. We had done a couple of different projects earlier using Duane as our bass player, so everyone thought it’d be fun to do one more. We started rehearsing remotely for the gig, since Duane lives in the Bay Area and we all live on Vashon.
I had worked with Duane in the early days of my professional musical career and we actually played a gig in Charlottesville, Virginia that our current drummer, Gib, ran. How is that for coincidence?
OUR NAME
Our name comes from the obvious ‘One Night Stand’ since we thought it’d be over after our ‘premiere/last performance. However, it wasn't our last but just the beginning! 'OneNightstand’ started showing up in our posters and the nightstand became our mascot, so to speak. We’ve modified it some since to OneNiteStand, so you can take the name anyway you like.
As you can tell, 8 years later, here we are; still going at it strong. And we continue our journey.
With your listening support and our complete wackiness, we may just make it another 8 years.
Thanks for giving us a listen and supporting local musicians who love to play because we love playing!
RECORDING INSIDE SCOOP
In 2013, we wanted to record some originals. First, we had to pick which songs we wanted to do that might best reflect what we felt represented our wackiness with hidden talents hidden beneath.
Sometime in June of that year we set up some time at Jeff Woollen’s studio on Vashon. After laying down 8 tunes, we decided to take it upon ourselves to add the rest of the tracks in our own studios. We all agreed that, well…..”shit, yeah! We’ll get this thing wrapped up in a couple of months, no sweat.” We already had the basic stuff in the can and only needed to add some solos and voice. How hard could that be??
Here we are 8 years later and just getting this out. From coordinating players to record, to late nights at the editing desk; a lot of TLC went into this endeavor. I did not know our software like I do now! We have so many folks to thank: Our families for putting up with our devotion to music; people that have come to hear us over the years (and always clapped); to Martin Feveyear helping with some last minute mixing to all the mastering; and most of all, to all the musicians we’ve worked with over the years
So, after years of simmering and ferment just so, it’s now time to get this conglobation into some digital format so you’ll can listen and enjoy what we’ve been doing for all this time.
OUR STUDIO
Behind this door is where it all began and continues today. In it’s dark shadows there are mics placed in the most inconvenient location because, after all, we needed to cram 8-9 players in there and there wasn’t too much room
MEET THE MUSICIANS
There’s a lot to be said about the players and their influence in the making of our EP..
A list of contributors to the making of this album:
LUKE MCQUILLIN: GUITAR, SINGER/SONGWRITER
Started playing in the early ‘60’s playing with my brother. I had a 4-string tenor guitar and my brother, a banjo. Kingston Trio and P,P & M were our go-to songs. However, when I first heard the Beatles in 1964, everything changed. I wanted to be a star!
My first “real” electric guitar was a 1965 Baby blue F-11 Hagstrom 6-string with diamond facing under the strings……Man, look at that thing! Who wouldn’t love it?
Soon I was ‘playing’ as well as sneaking out at night going down to Greenwich Village to see all the live bands of the 60’s. Lovin Spoonful, Fugs, Zappa, Canned Heat, 3 Dog Night, Cream, Airplane, Butterfield Blues Band, Sonny & Brownie, Taj Mahal……. Too many to name. Great times…. actually, got to see Jimi Hendrix’s first show at the Filmore in NYC.
Around ’65 I started taking lessons from a jazz pianist Jay Fredricks and he had me playing scales and chord progressions for hours a day; not to mention theory. It always amazed me how he knew when I wasn’t doing it right, just by listening. He knew where the 6th, or b5 was to be within the arpeggio and say “Nope, you got it wrong”. Anyway, It was a great experience and worked with him for about 2-3 years before getting in a band (The Underdogs). Many years as well as band formations took me all over New England. You ever play with 5 guys on top of a regular pool table with your heads touching the ceilings in some funky bar in Bridgeport or Berlin, NH? I’m sure everyone has gone through that phase; sort of a rite of passage.
I hung out with Dennie Doherty of the Mamas and Papas the summer of ‘75. Nothing came of it other than some fun times, smokin’ a lotta dope, and some rough recordings.
I played the New England circuit for quite a few years before heading down to D.C. in ’76. There I hooked up with a guy named Catfish Hodge. He already had a few albums out and was looking for new talent and a new band. He formed the Catfish Hodge Band and we went on the road with D.C. as our base. Catfish had a few albums out already and knew quite a few musicians, which we got to jam with and hang out. One of the more memorable things was opening for Bonnie Raitt for a tour & a number of shows. After one of the shows, Bonnie’s band all mooned us as they passed us in their bus!
Ah yes, being 20-something!
One thing, I’ve always gravitated towards bands writing their own material which provided a different perspective. What it did for me was allow me with a blank slate for creating something of my own. Influences from musicians around me certainty led me to a lot of creations. Music has been an emotional thing and hanging out with a musical family couldn’t be a better connection for creativity! A large family!
Guitar influences for me are Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Lari Basilio, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa, Mike Stern, Prince, Greg Howe.
Musical styles I enjoy are Snarky Puppy, Pomplamoose, KNOWER, Fearless Flyers, Lettuce, Clapton,
GIB DAMMANN: DRUMS/VOCALS/PERCUSSION
EXCERPTS FROM “MEMOIRS OF A CRAZED MUSICIAN.” (SUNG EARLY, OFTEN, NEVER FINISHED)
There’s nothing like playing live. Nothing. It’s intoxicating. All moving to your beat. No one wanting to be elsewhere. Maybe 1700 gigs, twice as much practice. Life
I remember many hot summer nights, frats sealed off to keep the sound contained, playing through sunrise, the crowd louder than the band, playing so hard there would be a puddle of sweat under my seat.
There was a short period of time where I abandoned the drums in favor of running live music bars back east (the Mineshaft, The Pass). I fortunately realized I was not only shortening my life but missing part of my soul. It helped to have a late night talk-shop conversation with Butch Trucks: It was costing him money to play with his own pick-up band (Greg Allman was so strung out he couldn’t gig), yet the fever in Butch’s eyes and voice, after playing to maybe 100 people, I fully understood. I got a Christmas card from him once asking “you playing again yet?” Yes
“Captain Tunes and his Slightly Fabulous Noteguns”. “Johnny Sportcoat and the Casuals.” Live music baby!
And the music gets richer: Too brief a stint traveling the world with the Colwell Brothers: “Viva La Congo!” “Poultry in Motion” has me playin/thinkin/singin cajun and country, Motown and protest. Poultry’s Chris Anderson likes to say “Gib played with a lot of great musicians nobody heard of.” Yep
And now One Nightstand – What a fantastic ensemble of player-buds!! The band’s door has revolved a lot over 8 years, but the core group Luke, Slab, and Ainslie has been a constant.
Luke is simply a fantastic writer. He forces me out of my 4/4 shell.
Ainslie’s got the funkiest pocket of any bass player I have ever played with.
Wherever Luke found Slab he found a golden sax.
I would love to be beside Fletcher’s percussive mind another 500 times and soak it up.
And we have just scratched the surface of learning from Ken.
Mike! Arlette! Spoon! Terri! Tony! Bill! Duane! Greg! Jack!
Through health issues, and now COVID, sometimes with this band’s revolving door it feels like a series of one-night stands…. eventually the one night stands will fade down to one nightstand….but what a way to go!
AINSLIE MACLOED: BASS
Since falling in love with the bass guitar at the age of fifteen, Ainslie MacLeod has supplied the bottom end to bands from the North East of Scotland to the Pacific Northwest. During his musical career, he has played everything from heavy metal to country music, but has always gravitated towards soul and blues.
A self-taught musician, Ainslie’s style is heavily influenced by great bass players like Motown’s legendary James Jamerson, slap and pop inventor Larry Graham, and funk maestro Louis Johnson.
Ainslie has played in funk and pop bands in London, soul bands in New York and Seattle, blues bands in Atlanta and San Francisco, and now brings his talents to the fabulous rocky-blues sound of OneNiteStand.
Ainslie has had more fifteen-minutes of fame than anyone else he knows.
KEN WIDMEYER: KEYS
OneNiteStand were the headliners for Vashon's infamous Cat Butt Festival a half dozen or so years ago and he remembers thinking "Wow! I want to be in THIS band!"
Ken has been obsessed with the sound of the venerable Hammond B3 organ since his teen years. At fifteen, he got banned from the church organ loft by the choir director for playing "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" loudly for his friends. His Mom bought him his first portable organ at age 15, accurately claiming it would keep him out of juvie hall, and he's been in rock and blues bands ever since.
Although his first interest was the "combo organ" sound of Ray Manzarek of The Doors, he soon heard Duke Jethro playing organ on B.B. King recordings and his focus quickly changed to the mighty Hammond B3. His influences now cover many genres including blues, soul, funk, jazz fusion, ska, and reggae and the associated vintage "electromechanical" keyboard sounds of the Hammond organ, Hohner clavinet, and Fender Rhodes & Wurlitzer electric pianos.
Ken is veteran of the Puget Sound area blues circuit, playing keys in several blues bands and in weekly blues jams where he honed his chops playing with many regional Washington Blues Society greats. After living on Vashon for a dozen years, he finally discovered Vashon's music scene when he got invited to The Coop. At the end of the first evening, he joined a Vashon band and played his first Vashon gig at The Red Bicycle with Rooster a few weeks later.
Ainslie covers the bottom and Ken fills out the mid-range on keys, helping create the "wall of sound". It took him a while to show up, but he's thrilled to finally be here.
SLAB (DOUG) FINDLEY: SAXES, SINGER/SONGWRITER
I started playing sax in Jr High doing the usual stuff: marching bands, concerts, and jazz band. Our jazz band placed in the top ten in the Reno International Jazz Festival two years in a row. That was back in the mid ‘70’s…… Had fun then!
In the 80’s was when I really got into rock bands in the Eugene, OR scene: Bacchus, Johnny Quest, The Plastic Americans, and Single Mary were some of the bands I played in during that time. I was learning computer programming so I could keep my musical addiction going; after all, nobody really makes any money playing, do they? It’s all about the love of music!
Eventually, I moved to Seattle, got a ‘real’ job and continued playing and picked up the guitar along the way. My buddies that I was playing with eventually put together an album, “A Whole Lotta Honyocking Going On”. That was with the band The Danged
I met Luke recording a band he was in (Turner Down). That was in 2005. I had opened a studio in the early 2000’s on Vashon (Dream Island Audio). Over the years we somehow ended up in the same band……. And that was about 10 years ago. We went through a few iterations before becoming OneNiteStand. That was in 2012. My favorite thing in this band is playing dual leads with Luke and pretending like I’m in a horn section.
My musical influences have included Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Yes, Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fire, Janes Brown, Devo, Snarky Puppy, The Funk Knuckles and a lot more through the years.
TONY MANN: KEYS
Tony Mann is a keyboard player/singer/songwriter who has been putting his heart and soul into music for over 25 years. He joined One NiteStand as our first keyboard player back in 2017. He honed his road chops with the veteran Seattle Band Massy Fergusson, with 10 years and 5 albums under his belt. A very nice solo on Thistle Pass too! He has had the privilege of playing with amazing musicians like Mike Gordon, Bill Kreutzmann and John Popper. He recently joined the Seattle indie pop band Memphis Radio Kings.
FLETCHER ANDREWS: PERCUSSION/DRUMS
I got my first drum set at 6 years old. Growing up in Cleveland, OH my exposure was mostly to Rock, RnB, Blues and Jazz. Early influences ranged from the Beatles to Temptations, Chicago to the Tijuana Brass along with favorites like Black Sabbath, Led Zep, the Who, Iron Butterfly, Jonny Winter & Rush.
A big shift occurred in 10th grade with exposure to the jazz fusion drummers Lenny White, Bill Cobham, Tony Williams; more shedding light on a whole new dimension & level of playing. This led to many performing college year bands playing a range of music from Punk, Funk, top 40, and Jazz.
Moving to Seattle in the mid 80’s I shifted my focus to mountaineering and outdoor adventures, while continuing to play with a couple local party bands but it wasn’t until the mid-90’s that I truly reengaged with drumming after moving to Vashon Island.
Initially I played with the Island Jazz Quartet and other local musicians. My first studio recording was with the United Sheep Project (Steffon & Arlette Moody). It was his involvement with Island Fusion a Jazz Trio featuring Steve Meyers and the late great Jack Barbash that put in motion and serious reengagement with music. This band ultimately lead to the formation of Vashon’s Turner Down in 2001 or 2002, an all island jam band featuring Luke McQuillin, Brent Magstadt, Jack Barbash, and Doug Ringer. During this time Brent released a solo album featuring many of the songs TD played and help write. I played drums and percussion on all but two tracks.
Island Fusion played almost 20 years together before Jack’s passing and TD was active for over 10 years.
In 2002 I had the opportunity to sit in with George Duke’s band at the Jazz Alley and in 2010 flew to Hawaii to open for Jack Johnson at the Kahua Festival. As TD came to an end I was one of the main drummers for the Church of Great Rain variety show, played in several Mid-Eastern influenced Funk bands with Jason Everett, was the
original drummer for Fendershine, an all island band who released a CD in 2013. Other bands I played with before leaving Vashon Island after 25 years of residency included Shay-Ka-Stik, TV Dinner, Subconscious Population.
I’ve been keeping my involvement with Vashon island music scene playing percussion with One NiteStand and Long Day on Mars (CD to be released post-Covid). Now that I’m in Seattle I continue to play with
Seattle bands such as the Struggles, Dragontail Peak (with two CD’s released), and Soul Shack.
ADRIAN WITHERSPOON: TROMBONE
Seattle area trombone player Adrian Witherspoon has gained a reputation for being one of the most versatile horn players in the area. He has been steadily working as a jazz, funk, blues, soul and rock musician in and around Seattle since moving to the Northwest from Albuquerque, New Mexico to attend the University of Washington.
He has performed with such bands and artists as Marmalade, Soul Provider, Bambaji, Tiffany Wilson, Victortrey Funklove, Stingshark, Adrian Xavier, Sly Lothario, Sean Nelson, The Tony Coleman Band, Otis Clay, and Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. He played with OneNiteStand from
He has studied with Seattle trombone greats, Jeff Hay, Stuart Dempster and Julian Priester.
Other Contributors and influences that have made this band what it is today:
Lonesome Mike Nichols: Harp
Terri Cole: Vocals/sax
Arlette Moody: Vocals
Azula Phillips: Vocals
Matt Eggleston: Bass
Jack Barbash: Piano/trombone
Duane Campbell: Bass
Dianne Krouse: Sax
credits
released December 25, 2020
All songs except Macho Man were written by Luke McQuillin. Macho Man was written by Doug (Slab) Findley.
Lyrics by Luke McQuillin, Dixie Balin, James Kelley.
Basic tracks recorded in 2013 at Jeff Woolen Studio on Vashon, WA
Other tracks recorded from 2013-2018 at Dream Island Studio on Vashon, WA
Mixing by: Luke McQuillin, Slab Findley
Mastering by: Martin Feveyear
Artwork Drawings: Don Johnson
Contact email: luke.mcquillin@gmail.com