About Quanta


Quanta plays in the Tallahassee area,  home of Florida state government and FSU football, not to mention Florida State University and the High Magnetic Field Lab.   To get away from the pressures of big science, these guys like to jam on tunes from various musical eras, with the exception of glam rock.   To escape the ASCAP police, they even write a few of their own songs.    They've individually been playing music for as long as they can remember in countless bands from Ann Arbor Michigan and Austin, Texas,  to Washington D. C. and Erie, Pennsylvania.    We won't list these units here since they have mostly faded from memory.   

Now they are together in a two man group.   Even though they have to manage several instruments in the course of a single song,  they like the flexibility of a small unit.  And they don't have to put up with band members too wasted to play.  

People often ask the band why they are called Quanta.  The truth is pretty mundane.  They wrote a list of 50 band names on a piece of paper and crossed out the ones that were not embarrassingly bad.   They were left with Quanta.   But it did fit.  A quantum is a small unit of energy.  And they are a small unit,  definitely with some energy.

For reasons they have forgotten they continue to pursue that distant goal of hitting that perfect note,  finding that perfect lick on the instrument.   Occasionally they succeed, but often they forget it the next day.  Nevertheless each time they play they get epsilon better, where epsilon is a small but significant number much bigger than Planck's constant.  And audiences agree, these guys are good and they are different.  

They like to play some old standards and favorites.   They strictly stay away from Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Justin Bieber,  not because they don't like them,  but because they don't do a very good job of playing their stuff.   More to their taste is T-bone Walker,  Bob Dylan,  Thelonious Monk,  or Dizzy Gillespie.   Occasionally something by that great folk composer, anon.  Whatever they play it comes out sounding like Quanta.

They are big favorite at the Tallahassee Downtown Market and before the recession and oil spill guests at the Gibson Inn in Apalachicola, Florida regularly enjoyed their playing on the front porch into the Gulf sunset.  

They love to play and they will definitely play for food... gourmet food.   To keep track of their elusive movements,  please get on the mailing list.


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