Bob ( Guitars, kazoo, harmonica, vocals, washtub bass, washboard and all sorts of other homemade instruments that might possibly be sculptures) is also known as "Washtub Bob" and his brother is Todd (Mandolin, guitar, vocals), but they mispelled it as "Toad" at the '05 Brass Ball in Waterbury CT, so Jessica (either fiddle or violin or both) who lives on Bob's street decided we should go with it in print (or paint really) for our "up next sign" and the name stuck because the paint took a long time to dry (see photo).
And we became a real Jugband When Phil joined up with us, bringing along many other instruments that he plays (He was there in Bethlehem when you hear Wash Tub Bob start a show by saying that we were hiring.

We live in a little one room log cabin, high in the Woodbury Mountains, on the last road to get cable TV in the United States of America. We trek out in the steam powered JugMobile to surprise people by just setting up and playing at places nobody has even asked us to play at.
Every moment is a special moment.

We can make our own mp3s and post them up, just like the news stories we also make up and post.

If we signed up, we'd be working.
If we don't, we're just playing.
Playing is a lot more fun than working, don't you think?

(Tim writes:) I first saw Washtub Bob perform at the Woodbury Library long before he was Washtub Bob and a long time friend of my partner in crime Roberta. I always wanted to sit down and play with him sometime (the Lap Steel falls if I don't sit down). So many years later Bob played some music at a friend's funeral and then we started getting together to play and then Todd, Bob's brother started playing with us, and then Jessica Eller, and then Tom Parker and Phil Juhas, Erez Eller and Erik Lambro, and sometimes Alex Hunt, and who knows who else will sit in sometimes...

Jug Bands, Bluegrass Bands, the Blues (not so much the Reds or Whites), Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, and especially our good friend Tom Jones

Favorite Spot?
He was a good old dog...

Some of us use picks (I broke our only shovel); Bob makes stuff out of hardware and old stuff he finds on the sidewalks on trash night; and of course the Stanely Steamer we travel around in, so we carry plumbing equipment with us...

Check out our myspace places:
http://www.myspace.com/toadandthejugadelics and http://www.myspace.com/jugadelia
http://www.tomparkermusic.com/
And:
GOING WHERE NO JUG BAND HAS GONE BEFORE!
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