 This is Rick Dodgson, I'm the host of tonight's show, this is the first in a series of shows for ShibiGbTV, and tonight I'm privileged to welcome Straboigan's best local band, Cedarwell, to the show tonight. Over here on guitar we have Eric Neve, on drums we have Jared Beckman, and on lead guitar we have Jeff Padling-Growl, close enough, close enough, okay I'm going to leave it to these guys, this is Cedarwell. Rapids Michigan, it's about Grand Rapids Michigan. That was great guys, I'm really pleased to have you on the first ever episode of ShibiGbTV. Let me take this opportunity to ask you a few questions. Eric let me start with you, I always identify this as your band, could you tell us a little bit about the origins of Cedarwell? Sure, it used to be in a band called Amalgam, it was a local band from ShibiGbTV as well with high school buddies, and then we moved to Boston for about three years, came back to ShibiGbTV and then the other members kind of split off and me and another drummer started Cedarwell in 2005 I think it was, or six, and then Jared joined in when the other drummer went back to school. Jeff has also been kind of in and out of Cedarwell for a while, helping me with recordings, he's from Brooklyn, New York and I met him in 2006, yeah. Well Jeff, I know you're a touring musician as well and you play with other people, how did you first come across Eric and Cedarwell? Well we were on a bill randomly, I play solo a lot, I had a solo project and I had a solo show in Brooklyn and randomly we were placed on the same bill, they were on tour and I somehow got there early enough and saw their set and I usually my friends just would come out to see me play but I called them immediately like you have to come down to this to the club and see these guys because they're awesome and we just hung out that night, became fast friends, started exchanging shows and then I came out to Sheboygan for a visit and the rest is, you know, well you got to love Sheboygan, right, you got to love Sheboygan, but Jared you're an outsider, right, you're from Oostburg, how did you come to be the drummer in this band? Eric was Eric's other drummer, I had gone to college for soil science and my brother Luke designed the album art for for the Gamboge album which was the last album he did with Joel Stadeck who was his previous drummer and I was in the house and Eric had heard me playing drums, I would consider fairly poorly upstairs but he asked me that shortly after the album was finished if I would maybe come or I'd be interested in trying some things with him and then things were grew from there and that was when I was playing drum set before this set up. Okay, well that is a notable thing about your drumming, I had seen you sing and play guitar and perform as a solo artist before I saw you join Cedarwell, but when you did you certainly played drums in a distinctive fashion, is there any reason why you chose not to play a regular kit? Not really, I should say the reason was Eric was playing, the music was not quite as rock and roll as it is now so we were trying to break down the drum set sort of then I found this old like 50s Ludwig floor tom and it had nice sound so we tried just playing using it somehow and then over time this set just kind of grew and then I started bringing in stuff from my drum set and to be able to fulfill some of my ideas to be implemented in the music. Yeah, well it sounds great and I've watched it grow and you make a good point Cedarwell's music has become kind of more raucous and rocky maybe since Jeff's been around, there seems to be a lot of location in your music Eric, you sing about place, I know you're just about to leave town, are we going to get to hear about other places in your music? Oh yeah of course, I mean I think art is just you know an expression of your experience in the world and you're kind of boiling it down and making a song or a piece of work so for me it's a really natural expression to just include places, states, nature, you know experiences have had I always just made sense to me. Well the music is beautiful and I'm proud to be from the same town as Cedarwell. I think we have five minutes left so we're going to run through one more song I guess and then we'll bring it to a close but this is Shibijibi TV and my name is Rick Dodgson and look for Shibijibi.com to find out more and hopefully we'll have more shows coming up featuring the best of Shibuigans music and art and culture. Thank you guys.