ALL CRAZY

by Mike Vagnoni
   Last Issue we told you about the contest that ran at the Hollywood Bistro and was sponsored by Yuengling Beer.& OOT paper. The Winner was ALL CRAZY from North Phila.  All Crazy is a new band with a unique sound...they call it Hiprock.  These young dudes can rock.
   With a fusion of rock and modern day hip hop, here is where they get their blended style of Hiprock.  Talking with  Adam Serlin who plays the electric violin in the band, he told me much about this new band.  "We really have a good new band and our style is really different then what you might find out there today. Band members are:  Billy Pounds on guitar and lead vocal, Geoff Lyman on base, our MC is Kenneth "Big Soup" Worley who also does lead vocals, Marquise Ford on drums, and of course myslef Adam Serlin".  Raw energy that makes you want to move is what you will find seeing them live on stage. Call it raw or pure...these musicians command a great stage show  and make you move.
   Band members average in age from 22 to 23 years of age. The group has up coming gigs at :  the Grape Street Pub in Manayunk and Hollywood Bistro....
    New sounds are coming down and its not that craz to remember their name ...ALL CRAZY is the new band.  They have a 2 song CD being recorded from Guiding Angel Studios, in Feasterville Pa...you can find out more about this new band by going to ALLCRAZYMUSIC.com - you my find them also on www.myspace.com/ALLCRAZYFILES.....For Bookings contact Robert Acosta at :
215-681-9407

All About All Crazy: 

      If ever there was a band that represented the true face of Philadelphia, it is the multi-racial, multi-talented, multi-faceted musical entity known as All Crazy. Formed in the winter of 2005, All Crazy has been working for the past year to bring the spirit of “brotherly love” back to its native city. Comprised of Billy “Godfather” Pounds (a rock guitarist who’s been playing on the Philly scene since he was 16), Marquise “Dimes” Fordham (a jazz musician who learned to play drums in his local church), Kenneth “Big Soup” Worley (a smoothly dressed MC who owns a barbershop in Northeast Philly), Geoff “Limbs” Lyman (a heavy metal bass player and music producer from Drexel Hill) and Adam “Shalom Skinny” Serlin (a classically trained violinist and the band’s resident pretty boy), All Crazy has managed to channel rock, hip-hop, blues, soul, gospel, and (yes, even) classical influences to form their very own genre of music: hip-rock. Blending violin melodies and rap lyrics over guitar driven rock and funky bass lines, All Crazy has drawn upon the best aspects of black and white culture to create a sound, image, and stage show that is entirely unique. With clever lyrics, catchy hooks, and unparalleled musicianship, the band has armed itself with the tools necessary to appeal to every demographic—a feat that, judging by their rapidly bourgeoning fan-base, they are well on their way to accomplishing.

       Despite their compositional innovation, however, perhaps the most enticing part of All Crazy is their heavy hitting, jam-heavy, energetic live shows. Given the band’s unique make-up, it should come as no surprise that when All Crazy plays a live set, they pack venues with audiences equally as diverse as the band itself. Come to any All Crazy concert and you’ll see the All Crazy family—hundreds of loyal fans sporting the band’s t-shirts, singing along with every last lyric, and dancing with band-members on stage. Oftentimes, shows turn to parties, with the crowd’s excitement fueled by the total unpredictability of the band’s ever-changing set: an original hip hop composition might lead to a classic rock cover—a show might open with a five-minute unscripted blues jam and close with a remix of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” In the end, it is precisely this universality that seems to be the greatest appeal of All Crazy. They are equal parts a party band, musical innovators, and socially conscious poets. Their sound is a mix of urban and suburban, rock and rap, black and white—a sound that defies all labeling yet appeals to all people. If it didn’t rock so hard, one might almost be tempted to call it hip-hop. If it didn’t make you shake your ass so much, one might almost call it modern rock. In the end, however, there is only one way to define All Crazy music: it is a sound free of all prejudice, open to all influences, and clear of all stereo-types. It is, as the title of their forthcoming album implies, “realer than the truth.”