Midnight Live

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Midnight Live's most recent photo, Top row from left: Andy Hunt, Andrew Kuykendall. Bottom Row from left: Brian Cassidy, Taylor Wilson.

Midnight Live is the name of a rising rock/jam band from Charlottesville, VA featuring the eclectic styles and jazzy grooves found from such bands as Phish, The Allman Brothers Band, and Dave Mathews Band ;the kind of shit that keeps a bar selling drinks (to try and make the music sound better). Midnight Live started off playing salsa swing waltzes at a Holiday Inn for a then impressive $17.85/gig (1998 dollars). The band was then dropped in favor of the well known Murph and the Magictones. The band nearly split when they hit rock bottom after losing their regular gig and some of the members were fed up with the drummer's Snapple addiction. Snapple Apple and Diet Cranberry Raspberry were draining the bands funds, instruments were sold for cardboard cutout replacements. In the musical hoggleboggle that Midnight Live had become, a new band was born from a UFO (unexpected flying object). While traveling on the highway in their Government Surplus Mail Truck, the vehicle's windshield was shattered when a flying bowling ball came crashing through, knocking the driver unconscious. The truck crashed and was totaled, and the band spent 3 years together in a coma in the same hospital room. When they serendipitously all awoke within a week from each other, they each had the passion and skills to play a totally new form of music: jam rock. Perhaps it was divine intervention, or perhaps it was the local jam rock radio station playing in their hospital room for three years, but the collective coma which had reinvented this band started them on a path towards musical deliciousness that the Charlottesville community was ready to groove to. The coma had also instilled an appreciation for the importance of education, and the band soon began attending classes at the University of Virginia. After realizing they were not registered students, they threw out the textbooks they had found in the library and picked up their instruments full time. Midnight Live is currently playing parties, bars, and other events at the University. Fat chicks.

Members include:

Brian Cassidy: Bass Extraordinaire Andy Hunt: Set and Timbales galore Tits Kuykendall: Keys and Angelic Voices Taylor Wilson: Stratino, Vocal

website: www.myspace.com/midnightlivemusic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9o-k_USJWI

Midnight Live is an original unique television program combining interviews with on-scene live report on real-life issues and behavior trends, broadcast weekdays from midnight to 1:30 a.m. on Indonesia's Metro TV. The program explores on a specific topic with first-hand resources interviewed live in the studio while the phenomenon is being carried live by on-the-spot reporter. Midnight Live also has interactive segments where viewers can give live comments through call-ins and text messages. It has been the highest-rated talk program during midnight by a television station in Indonesia.