Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis met Raphi Gottesman and Jordan Rathkopf at Bard College. Jack and Jordan had been playing around campus with various drummers. In late 2000 Jordan had the opportunity to record for his musical engineer class at a professional studio with Bob Bielecki. They recruited Raphi the most popular drummer at school. Shocked that he agreed to play with them, they started a band called Jackson Barry Stole My Trumpet. The initial recording session was a complete disaster and was never finished. Later, with the assistance of Tyler Drosdeck, they self-produced a demo in Tivoli at Raphis house, Demos for Amsterdam (2001) After graduating the band went its separate ways. Jack played with various other musicians. Two years later Raphi moved from Columbus Ohio to Brooklyn and became roommates with Jack. They had a reunion show with Jordan. Jordan left for New Zealand to pick apples and Raphi and Jack continue to recruit new members for the band. Jack has self-released a few compilations of his recordings on CDR (available at OliveJuiceMusic.com) and a 7" on Smoking Gun Records. A full CD is upcoming. He also plays with his brother jeffrey and the on again off again musical experiment called Guitar Situations. Raphi records his own original compositions. He recently worked with DJ Egg Foo Young on a remix of the Jandek song, "Your Other Man" forthcoming on Schematic records. He was a member of the band Catch a Fly which released a self titled album on Lifted and Gifted.
