Medicine Show was a musical fusion created by diverse talents and personalities. OSU, once acclaimed for being one of the nations top drinking schools was lauded as the home to a band of wannabe gypsy's that called themselves by the name of "Medicine Show". Everyone in the band claims to have been the originator of this pollymorphic entity but this was an assimilation of nature by the cosmos.
.Donny Wood, Brad James, Scott Evans, Kenny Early, Corey Mauser, Steve Anderson, Steve Littleton, Jim Downing, David Tanner, Eric HansEn, Jim Karstien, Valentino Pena, Matt Martin, Bill Phillips and many others were responsible for the collective grooves. The name Medicine Show was named after the song "W.S. Walcott's Medicine Show" from the band "The Band". There have been many who played with Medicine Show. There were many friends that became family in this era, many of us found our wives during these years and many of us have lost friends and family alike since then, but still we carry with us, how fortunate to have all shared that magnificent chemistry and music with the folks who supported us and who let us into their lives.
Brad James - Guitar and Vocals
Scott Evans - Guitar and Vocals
Don Wood - Bass and sphincter phone
Kenny Early - Drums
Steve Littleton - Keyboards and Organ
Jimmy Karstien - Drums, Conga, and Percussion
Influences: Grateful Dead, JJ Cale, Leon Russell, The Allman Brothers, Clapton, Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Taj Mahal, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, The Band, The Cate Brothers, Government Mule, Red Dirt Rangers, Dick Sims, David Tanner, Rollo, Jimmy Lafave etc. etc.
"a full year of my godforsaken life was donated to the MedShow cause. LaFave and more recently McClure were/are the only projects I did for a much longer stretch than that.
I will come to Tulsa and take a shit on your porch if you don't at least spell my freakin name right in the bio. It's HansEn.there ain't no mmmmBop in this MoFo." - Eric HansEn
"Like the morning sun we come and like the wind we go." -Garcia and Hunter
