God Street Wine

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God Street Wine

Country	New York, NY, USA
Years active	1991–1999
Genres	Jam band Progressive Rock
Labels	Ripe and Ready Mercury Records Geffen Records
Members	Aaron Maxwell (Lieberman) Dan Pifer Jon Bevo (Liebowitz) Tom Osander (Tomo) Lo Faber Peter Levin Aubrey Dayle Jason Crosby

God Street Wine (also known as GSW) was a jam rock group from New York City. The band broke up in 1999. The band toured the U.S. with H.O.R.D.E. four times and opened for the Black Crowes and Allman Brothers. The band played a large part in developing the jam rock scene of the late 90's initially playing Nightengale's and The Wetlands Preserve in New York City with the likes of The Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, Jono Manson and the Dreyer Brothers. Numerous bands and musicians had opened for them over the years ranging from Dave Matthews Band, Sheryl Crow and Hootie and the Blowfish to the Ominous Seapods and G. Love & Special Sauce.

The band was originally comprised of Lo Faber (lead vocals, guitar), Aaron Maxwell (lead vocals, guitar), Tom Osander (drums and percussion), Dan Pifer (bass), and Jon Bevo (keyboards).

In 1998, after 2 failed record deals, frustration with management and the general feeling that things were going nowhere, Osander and Bevo decided they'd had enough and left the band. They were later replaced by Peter Levin (keyboards), Jason Crosby (keyboards/fiddle) and Aubrey Dayle (percussion). They continued touring with this new lineup until the band collectively reached the decision to finally dissolve itself in 1999.

A three night group of farewell shows featuring all members of God Street Wine (both new and old) was performed at New York City's The Wetlands Preserve in December of 1999. Special guests joined the band onstage, including John Popper of Blues Traveler during the second night's show. The band would go on to release a live album commemorating these shows entitled, "Good To the Last Drop."

In early September of 2001, the band would return to this same venue with its original lineup intact (Faber, Maxwell, Osander, Pifer, Bevo) to play a reunion show. The show appropriately began with "Home Again" from "Bag," their initial release from nearly a decade earlier. The Wetlands venue would close permanently later that month.

Since 2000 Tom Osander has played drums for Irish singer songwriter Damien Rice.