Tornado Rider
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival
Walsh Farm
Oak Hill, New York
July 20, 2012 � Saturday

4 mic mix: Averlux SMK-H8K + Sennheiser 441 > Tascam DR-680 [24/48]
441's placed in front of each stack, Averlux placed at lip of stage center
Mastered in WaveLab 6.0 with iZotope Ozone 5.0
Recorded by Casey Coniff and Mastered by Bill Koucky

Rushad Eggleston � Cello
Graham Terry � Bass
Scott Manke � Drums

Guests:
Della Mae
Mike Barnett � Fiddle
Dominick Leslie � Mandolin
Gregory Liszt � Banjo

Catskill Pavilion (Dance Tent)

Set began at 12:45 am

- Soundcheck -

1.1st Tuning Jam
2.Rushad's Welcome
3.2nd Tuning Jam

- Performance -

4.Introduction
5.The Witching Hour
6.Harry Walked Into The Pantry
7.The Carpenter
8.Mr Benankiefoof
9.Bison Land
10.Fluffy Arabian Cat Disease
11.Before The Show Was Over
12.Octopus Headed Queens
13.Evil Mouse Lord
14.The Goat God
15.Rain Jam
16. - Enter Della Mae as back up singers -
17.I Am A Falcon!
18. - Enter Dominick Leslie and Mike Barnett - Rushad's Story about...
19.I Peed On A Bird
20.Golden Apple Dance
21.Rushad thanks Grey Fox and Happy Birthday to Emma
22.Fwethering Abugsnutts Party
23.Band Intros, Encore Break
Encore:
24.Rushad Solo Classical Piece
25.Paranoidness And Pain

Time: 1:54:15


�Tornado Rider is a powerful bird band of swirling goat god victory, that lurks in
the spooky forest regions and yells out over the mountains, glicking the gunt of
Nairobi into the fortress of Norwegian butt-death, and taking the slippers and
the coffee and the potato farm earnestness into the NOW.�

That is how San Francisco
band, Tornado Rider, has chosen to describe their sound since day 1, and there
still is no better way to describe them. Tornado Rider�s music has awakened a
new consciousness in music with their fusion of rock, punk, bluegrass, metal,
and classical, in a celebration of the things that really matter to people: having fun.
Tornado Rider�s uniqueness also stems from the fact that their brand of music,
dubbed �Sneth Rock�, only utilizes an electric cello, bass guitar and drums to
create their colorful world of escape into playful happiness and release.


Formed in May of 2008, Tornado Rider is the brainchild of enigmatic lead singer
and cello player, Rushad Eggleston. Brought up on a steady diet of classical,
bluegrass, folk, and rock music, Dr. Seuss, Lewis Carroll, philosophy, and the
wild and mysterious woods that he frequented, Eggelston�s imagination and creativity
have always been rooted in art and the natural state of the world.

A Grammy
nominated artist, Eggleston worked his way around various instruments including
rock and bluegrass guitar, violin, and eventually found a soul mate in the
form of the cello. After graduating from Berklee School of Music in Boston
with a cello scholarship, Eggleston had his hand in a number of bands, namely
Fiddler�s Four with Darol Anger, and Crooked Still. In November of 2008,
he decided it was time he found his own band; one that would be a vehicle to
unleash what was in his head and soul.

After hooking up with friends in the Bay
Area, bassist Graham Terry and drummer Scott Manke, Eggleston felt that Tornado Rider
was at last complete with the right partners who could not only help him spread
his gospel of feeling good and mischievousness but also open their minds enough
to embody the very messages of their unique songs. Their first album,
�Do You Have Time�?� features songs like �Paranoidness and Pain� and
�Golden Apple Dance� which reflect Tornado Rider�s desire to shed all
the thin veils of fear and frustration and to embrace the wondrousness of
being alive. Other songs like �Restaurant� and �Before the Show Was Over�
showcase how one�s imagination can go wild upon a brief moment of eye-to-eye
contact between a guy and a girl. Both songs were inspired by actual events.
Their follow up album was uniquely fan funded. The band raised over
$9000 dollars on Kickstarter and was able to record the album that became
�Jark Matter� at the Old Schools Studios up on the Northern Californian Coast,
which was subsequently released on independent punk label, Silver Sprocket
Bicycle Club. �Jark Matter� highlights the spookier parts of the forest and
the ocean, featuring deep-rooted grooves in �The Giant Tree Man�, soaring
melodies in �I�m a Falcon�, and under water cello driven vibrations in
�Medusapus�.

Tornado Rider�s songs have no political or religious agenda,
no call to arms or revolutionary dogma; they�re about humanity stripped down,
showing us the very core of what we used to be like when the world wasn�t so real.
�What people have said to me after shows and what�s made me happier than anything
else is that they were having a bad day, then they came to the show and they
left happy and feeling motivated,� says the charismatic Eggleston.

So what is
�Sneth Rock�? �The land of Sneth is the land that used to be inside the land
of Snee which is another wild, colorful, mystical happy land where a bunch of
mythical creatures live,� explains Eggleston, �It�s a happy place; I guess it
probably looks like the hills of Carmel, CA but more crazy, trippy and magical.
There�s a bunch of creatures called �thnarks� that fly around on clouds.
They�re not worried about getting their arms cut off with chainsaws or mold and
decay, death and suffering. They just live to have a bouncy good time. The land of
Sneth was a very important land in the land of Snee. However, the land of Sneth is
a little darker than the land of Snee. The land of Sneth is more primal and
mischievous, more primal and loud, hence the term, �Sneth Rock.� �

Where Pan
played a flute in Greek mythology to get people excited, Eggleston is the Pan
of this generation, dancing and leaping around the stage with his cello, never
missing a note, affecting everyone in his path and infusing a spirit of freedom
into every soul he meets. His virtuoso cello solos rival even the best guitar
solos in most rock bands to the point where his cello seems like a natural
extension of his body. Eggleston combines a Peter Pan like state of being forever
a child with the undeniable magnetism and mystical quality of the Pied Piper of
Hamlin. Tornado Rider�s music is so aggressively fun that you will feel compelled to rock!

The Sneth Goblin (aka Rushad Eggleston) was born in a log cabin in Big Sur, CA,
started violin at 3, jumped to cello at 8, bored, preferred sports and was pretty
good at them. announced detailed basketball, football and hockey games he played
against himself. shot bingy-gun at the moon each morning. fell in love with
music upon discovering rocknroll and guitar, at age 12. disenchanted with school,
quit homework, practiced all day. dropped out of highschool, got back into cello,
eternal battle between cello and guitar, wore no shoes for 2 years, hardcore vegan,
spent long hours alone in the woods or in room, writing listening thinking practicing
reading meditating. supercat. climbed trees. won full scholarship to Berklee
music college where everything changed. invented bluegrass cello, made whole new
styles of playing. toured country and world with fiddly folk bands, had full pockets,
wrote secret music of snee, ages 22-26. age 27 life exploded, snee got overtaken
by sneth, original interest in rocknroll resurfaced partially in rebellion against
oversaturation in folk music. became rushadicus, formed tornado rider with skatogious
and grameecious, strapped on the cello and dosed (is currently dosing) the world
with happy/hyper melodies. considers himself a hyena/mongoose/lemur/fruitbat/flying fox.
known for his semi-acrobatic abilities, and for being a "spaz". likes to say things
like "binsnickulous grouckmaster of limpiguanon", give himself titles like
"proprietor of igwarfnees", and name himself names like "j'slarkman boutchwees
von hijj-catcher"... laters.