Artist description The Project brings together elements of blues, jazz, funk, bluegrass, and rock in a sound that grooves during each of their jam sessions. Using basic chord progressions and down beat rhythms, they open up sections of each song for collaborated improvisation. There is no specific genre that they fit into due to their use of a variety of styles and musical backgrounds.

Music Style groove/jam rock

Musical Influences Allman Brothers, Big Head Todd, Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, '70's funk

Artist History 1996. Dave Clauson and Dave Porter meet at a kegger. Porter is pumping the keg. Later....they play guitar and like it. Eric Summers meets Porter in the building they live in. Summers plays drums. Clauson, Porter and Summers play and like it. Later....The trio invite Lukas Eklund to play bass with them. They play and like it. More than a year goes by...no playing. 1998. Summers moves back to Chicago from Arizona and the trio is back together. Need a bass player. hmmmm. Mark Peterson? Andrew Nemlin? Lukas Eklund. Ahhhhhhhh. Luke Sundholm joins on keyboards and the band plays every Wednesday at the Hollywood Lounge, Chicago, IL. 1999. Luke Sundholm leaves. Eric Summers becomes a daddy. They go on with the music. Check it out, we've got an album and we're playing regularly. We're a rock and roll band.

Group Members Dave Clauson - guitars, vocals Lukas Eklund - bass Dave Porter - guitars, vocals Eric Summers - drums

Instruments electric/acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, drums

Albums The Project

Location chicago, il - USA

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