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Black Mountain

Black Mountain

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Years Active: 2004 to present

Genre: Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Country: Canada

Website: www.blackmountainarmy.com/

Members:
Matt Camirand
Stephen McBean
Jeremy Schmidt
Amber Webber
Joshua Wells

Artist Bio:

From their Wikipedia entry... Black Mountain is a Canadian psychedelic rock-band composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells. Leader Stephen McBean also heads another similarly named band, Pink Mountaintops, who are the more experimental side of McBean's musical abilities. Black Mountain is the front line band for Black Mountain Army, a collective of musicians, artists and friends in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. According to an interview, the band said the "Black Mountain is just the five of us. The Black Mountain Army which has kind of gotten blown out of proportion, it was kind of just a joke, because everybody thought we were this hippie collective, like we all lived in one house. But its basically just our friends at home in Vancouver, just our extended family of creative people that we know." By day, three members of the band work for an organization (Insite) that meets the basic living requirements of the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill near Vancouver's Main & Hastings intersection, in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. In an interview, the band said: "After work we all try not to think too hard about the effect it has on our lives......[Read More]


 

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