Creatures of the Earth

Then-newcomers The Pages delivered an invigorating mix of skiffle-funk sounds. Formed serendipitously and unscrupulously in 2000, the result was instrumental bravado coupled with well-forged songs that seemed to materialize one after the other. The Pages honed and developed their sound in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 2000-2007.

Grant Orsborn [The Arthurs (Dirigeable)], Gabe Blair, Justin Dake, and the late Greg DeGroat made up the quartet. Picture a village of contented songwriters invaded by a nomadic band of guitar-weird interlopers. A few generations later the two groups have at last congealed into one society. They throw a sixties rock-n-roll dance party. DeGroat’s bass and Dake’s Drums weave an off-road landscape quilted together with the vocal harmonies of Orsborn and Blair. The occasional wily raw guitar solo betrays nomadic roots.