Stir Fried is an original band based in New Jersey/New York. They have been together for nearly twenty years performing their blend of swamp groove, psychedelic improvisation, and hook laden visual songs.Originally formed around the songwriting talents of founding member John Markowski, whose father, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, was a legendary producer and songwriter in the 1960's and 70's. This band has always played signature versions of several Kaye masterpieces, alongside brilliant Markowski originals. John Markowski on rhythm guitar/song writing and vocals, Jan London on guitars, and Vince Lorenzo on percussion with long time member Joanne Lediger shines on vocals. The band is joined with their dear friend Mr. Buddy Cage on Pedal Steel Guitar, Rawn Randall on Bass,and Jimmy "Foot" Blackford on Drums, and the newest member of Stir Fried is Mr. Rod Kohn on the Hammond B3 Organ.
Stir Fried has toured extensively across the US, building solid fan bases on both the east and west coasts. Many legendary musicians have gravitated towards Stir Fried's original yet old school sound. The band has recorded and performed with the likes of Dr. John (keys), Vassar Clements (fiddle-Old & In The Way), Commander Cody (piano), Buddy Cage (pedal steel-NRPS), Jo Jo Herman (keys - Widespread Panic), Bernie Worrell (keys-P Funk, Talking Heads), Derek Trucks (guitar-Allman Bros. Band), Tony Trischka (banjo).
Come see the power of a seasoned band, at the height of their musical game.
==============================Independent review By Frank Gutch (http:// rockandreprise.
net/stirfried.
html)Man, you gotta love summer. Sun, surf (if you're lucky enough to live on the coast), and skin. It is freedom personified and while I loved it in my youth, I learned to love it even more in the late 60s and early 70s--- for the music. Back in those days you got the so-called summer anthems, the best of Brit pop, and radio like I've not heard since. And there were the concerts. Sometimes pre-planned, many times impromptu, bands set up anywhere and everywhere allowed, or so it seemed. When that happened, music was free for the taking and a lot of us took it in huge quantities (along with nefarious herbal substances which shall remain nameless for the purposes of this review).
I myself heard rock music outside for the first time at the Eugene Pop Festival in the summer of 1969, watching the likes of a very early Alice Cooper, a somewhat unknown Rockin' Foo, Peter & the Wolves (purported to be the basis of a later J. Geils Band, though I have never heard confirmation) and the Doors fronted by an overweight and pompous Jim Morrison, who responded to music fans outside the gate asking to be let in (the Doors played last) with a 'Fuck 'em. Let 'em pay.
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