The big sound of Seed Is

Seed Is gathered off to the side of the stage before making music, a quiet moment together in prayer. Let me tell you: their funk was like a prayer reaching to the heavens. What a great sound.

Biggs jammed out on guitar. According to the Seed Is website, he is not the illigitimate son of Richard Nixon who "wears a fat man costume so people from his past will not recognize him." That would be Mike Peace. Biggs is a native of Washington, DC, and a self-taught musician. Biggs has played with a number of bands; with Seed Is, his current family, Biggs adds immensely to the sound of this funk, soul, rock, rap, folk, jazz, go-go, reggae band. He's not alone, of course.


Here's Big T, the band's trumpeter, warming up before their set.

I really liked the big sound from Seed Is, and Big T's brass was a large part of that. There's just something about a horn, you know.

Nikki, the last band-member I found playing on the roll of film, plays bass. I'm thinking "cool."

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