Moon Boot Lover

With superhero and sci-fi imagery, Peter Prince’s Moon Shoe Lover was among the early entries towards the northeast’s jam bands picture of the first ’90s. Delivering a Jimi Hendrix-influenced funk, the spinning lineup fronted by Prince provides managed to preserve their sound, mainly because of the drive of Prince’s command. Founded in Albany in 1990, the original lineup of Moon Shoe Lover highlighted guitarist and frontman Prince alongside brothers Neal and Alan Evans on body organ and drums, respectively. Bass players rotated, however the most continuous was shortly Jon Hawes. This edition of the music group documented two self-released albums — SPACE Actions (1994) and Live Deep Down (1995) — each offering comic book-style cover artwork attracted by Prince. The music group achieved some achievement over the jam rings circuit with contemporaries like moe., Schleigho, among others. In fall of 1996, they performed a short Rock and roll the Vote tour with moe., the Ominous Seapods, and Yolk, which presented a great deal of cross-pollination between your groups. Immediately after, though, Hawes as well as the Evans brothers remaining to pursue additional tasks. Hawes toured for a while with New Hampshire-based Latin-influenced jam music group Percy Hill. Alan Evans performed for some time in Karl Denson’s jazz-funk device, Tiny World, before reuniting with sibling Neal and founding the wildly effective Soulive with previous Lettuce guitarist Eric Krasno. Prince, in the meantime, participated in two collaborative acoustic trips with vocalist/songwriter David Gans, people of moe., while others entitled the Merry Danksters, just before putting together a fresh lineup of Moon Shoe Lover. Using the transience from the lineup founded, Prince securely became the group’s focal point. His frenetic acoustic guitar playing on his brand Flying V acoustic guitar, in conjunction with his maniacally comic stage persona and deeply soulful tone of voice was simultaneously aesthetically amusing and exhilarating. Right now touring as an elder from the jam music group picture, the brand new lineup of Moon Shoe also presented Andy Herrick on drums (previously of Harpoon) along with Jeff Merrow on vocals. Quickly, Hawes was back the fold, as well, as Percy Hill battled with a higher turnover rate. The brand new lineup documented Back on the planet in 2000, a well-balanced assortment of funk, rock and roll, and spirit originals. Another lineup from the music group soon got to the street — that one offering Nate Edgar on bass and Mike Dunkle on drums — to get the disk, with Hawes and Herrick putting your signature on on for chosen times. In the springtime of 2001, Prince also undertook a single acoustic tour playing schools and theaters, starting for longtime Dave Matthews collaborator Tim Reynolds.