Band of the Week: The Price is Rice plays fun, catchy acoustic
July 05, 2012
•Members: Daimon Price, Stephen Rice, Mark Galiyano Jr
•Style of music: Acoustic singer-songwriters
•Where based: Lehigh Valley
•When formed: 2011
•How band came together: We were in other bands and things didn't go smoothly at times and we decided that we wanted to be acoustic and have some fun and play out.
•Our band in four words: Fun and catchy music
•Influences: The Cure, Jars of Clay, Lifehouse, The Beatles, Styx and Stevie Wonder and many others
•You'll like us if you like: Fun catchy songs from the 70s through 2000s
•Our best original song: "Spirits Live On." It speaks of three very important people in Daimon's life and its a great song.
•Our best cover song: Our Beatles medley of "Revolution," "Drive My Car" "We Can Work it Out" and "Ticket to Ride." The Beatles are timeless.
•Our latest CD: Daimon's solo CD "Live at the Acoustic Lounge." As a group we haven't made a CD.
•Our audience: Generally 30-60 range but we have newer covers that the younger people would like such as Dave Matthews, Maroon 5 and Shinedown.
•Our biggest gig: No stadiums or arenas, yet. But every place we play is a big gig to us.
•Our best moment: Becoming an acoustic group and realizing how quickly we can put songs together. In a three-hour show we'll play 50 or so songs and have over 100 prepared to play at any time.
•Favorite venue: The Blue Monkey because they gave us our first gig and we're always thankful to them for helping us get it going.
•Dream venue: Musikfest.
•A funny story: At Mountainside, a lady cheered in the middle of a song and a little after I said it's great how she liked the song. And she said she cheered 'cause Lehigh scored a late basket against Duke. But we were good, too.
•We hate when audiences: Throw darts at us.
•Goal: To entertain audiences throughout the Lehigh Valley and be a regularly working band.
•Next gigs: 9 p.m. July 13 at the Blue Monkey in Catasauqua; 7 p.m. July 28 on stageit.com, 7 p.m. Aug. 10 at Blue Mountain Summit in Andreas, and 9 p.m. Aug. 1 , an acoustic set at the Blue Monkey.
•Comments: We are fans of music not just musicians and we want to have fun and see others have fun. Our slogan is "Let's Get Mild" because sitting and relaxing and singing along is what we look to get out of our audiences. Look for us on Facebook: The Price is Rice/facebook.