Details re: Rick Berlin w/ THE NICKEL & DIME BAND
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 01:58PM 
photo by Adam Wells
(from left t right)
Dino Govoni (sax), Rob Manachio (guitar), Al Radzikowski (kit, vox), Rick Mclean (guitar, vox), Sam Dudley (trombone, vox), Rick Berlin (keys, vox, songwriter), Jesse Adams-Lukowsky (guitar), Tom Appleman (keys, bass, vox)
bio
The Nickel & Dime Band is as JP a band as you can get. Tom (Appleman + Ricky Mclean grew up here. Berlin + Rob Manochio have lived + worked in the hood for years.) N+D were a constant at The Milky Way as the best LIVE KAREOKE band in the city. (They still do that.) Rick (Berlin) heard 'em years back + was knocked out by how well they played + how many songs they knew off the top of their heads, but it wasn't until he ran into Mclean at the Brendan Behan that he thought of asking them to consider learning Berlin songs. That was months ago. Today, they're a kick ass, upbeat, funny, danceable, deep + total pro buncha musicians. Eight in all. 3 guitars, bass, keys, kit, sax, trombone. Tom Appleman, Ricky Mclean, Rob Manachio, Al Radzikowski, Jesse Adams-Lukowsky, Sam Dudley (Berlin's nephew) + Dino Govoni. We've recorded our first record at Dimension Sound (out late spring, 2012).
links
www.rickberlin.com
http://rickberlin.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Nickel-and-Dime-Band/328477860457?ref=ts
quotes
" The Nickel & Dime Band has more gravitational pull than the Earth" - TJ Wenzel (The Temple)
"A great party in the best sense of the word" - Adam Sankowski (The Grown Up Noise)
"They CRUSH it live!" - Brandon Beaver (Buried Beds)
"Ya know what? They have soul. True soul" - Patricia Sheehan (Burke Distro)
videos
SALUT
(I'm A) SLUT (live)
I LOVE YOU IN THE RAIN (live)
where we've played
in Cambridge/Somerville:
The Lizard Lounge, The Middle East UP, Johnny D's, Toad, Radio, Oberon, The Plough & Stars
Passims, Atwood's Tavern
in Jamaica Plain:
The Jamaica Plain Music Festival, The Midway Cafe, Bella Luna, The Haven, The Loring-Greenough House
The Brendan Behan Pub
in Allston:
O'briens
in Norwood:
Perks Coffee House
in Braintree:
in a heated barn on Superbowl Sunday
sample set
slut
baseball park
nothing
beer belly
wallflower
no one is everything
walkin' in the hood
pbr
joey believes in ghosts
i'm jes' saying'
summer roof
7 foot woman
i love you in the rain
driven' grandpa home
hilary
(there's) a party comin' up the stairs
karaoke
salut
all in this together
we ain't gonna leave the stage
tech req
5 vocal mikes (1 at the piano, 1 at the kit, 3 across the front)
stage plot (click and drag this image to your desktop for the full plot)
