About

Herschel tucker band started

like a lot of bands do, with some guys who worked together at a truck wash in central Pennsylvania, guys with big dreams of owning their own truck wash someday. So they set out methodically building a plan to cash in from rock music.

First decision: fewer members = more $$. Second decision: Cotten Seiler on guitar and singing; Ted Sadowski on drums; and Mike Monti on the smallmouth bass. Third decision: what is rock music.

At the truck wash they met a wiry, bent man clad entirely in tartans and tweeds. From him their mission was revealed: rock music cannot be reduced to themes or gimmicks or frippery. “If it doesn’t come from the gut,” Herschel Tucker said, “it’ll disappear from human memory, like soapy water flowing past someone’s rubber boots and down a drain.”

They never saw his tweedy, tartany keester again, and hope no cease-and-desist letter from his attorneys ever darkens the

inbox of the band into which he breathed the fire of life and to which he gave his good name.

Today Herschel Tucker Band plays original songs located between post-rock and post-punk, always with a sense that there

was a time when the future looked ripe for ruining.