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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
You'd think the last thing Jim Creeggan would want to do after months on the road with Barenaked Ladies is go on a low-budget tour with his brother.
Jim is tall, fair and neat, while younger brother Andy is dark, compact and disheveled.
ANDY CREEGGAN (Brothers Creeggan): In the Barenaked Ladies I was always interested in what the heck Jim was doing on the bass, and we were kind of a musical unit in the group.
pieceofsky.com /bnluk/news/allthings.htm   (1123 words)

  
 NPR : Brothers Creeggan
All Things Considered, May 10, 2001 · Bassist Jim and keyboard player Andy were founding members of the popular Canadian band Barenaked Ladies.
Jim's still with the group; Andy left five years ago to study composition.
The Brothers Creeggan have released three CD's on their own label that are distributed through Page Music Distribution, 20 Railside Road, North York, Ontario, Canada M3A 1A3.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1122749   (159 words)

  
 Drums, Chicken, and Poop [DCP] (Barenaked Ladies' Tyler Stewart)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Jim Creeggan, bassist for Barenaked Ladies, may not be human.
The fact remains: the usual aging and physical change associated with gradually moving from being a 21-year-old kid to a 31-year-old adult (see pictoral) is not evident.
Sally S., fan of Jim Creeggan and longtime observer of his work, provided INT with a video tape of a VH-1 "Before They Were Rockstars" segment that proves the Creeggan Clone Conspiracy.
www.drumschickenandpoop.org /jim2002.html   (203 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Trunks - The Brothers Creeggan at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Jim Creeggan of the Barenaked Ladies, and his brother Andy Creeggan, formerly of the Barenaked Ladies(he left the group in 1995), have come together to create a total of four full-length albums over the last five or so years.
Jim is a superb bass player, and sometimes I wonder why he's not more well known in the bassist world.
Andy, on the other hand, is good at both piano (he uses many different styles throughout the album, from jazz to rock to classical) and guitar, though his guitar is a little scratchy.
www.epinions.com /content_107498933892   (713 words)

  
 Jim Creeggan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
*Jim's unmistakable double upright base was made for him by Jacques Gagnon of Montreal.
*Jim got his start in music at a very young age while singing with his brother at family gatherings, church and school.
Jim and his brother Andy have released 3 albums apart from the Barenaked Ladies:
bnlweb.tripod.com /jim.htm   (436 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Brothers Creeggan: Ladies Man
A silly childhood game Barenaked Ladies' bassist Jim Creeggan used to play with his older brother John and younger brother Andy almost turned into a do-it-yourself cryogenics experiment.
Trunks is the third release by Creeggan and his younger brother Andy since forming The Brothers Creeggan in the early '90s.
While he does have a voice in the Barenaked Ladies, the 29-year-old Creeggan says this side project allows him to utilize ideas that may not be appropriate for BNL.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/B/Brothers_Creeggan/2000/01/26/743581.html   (587 words)

  
 Barenaked Ladies Biography - Celebrity Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After the release, Andy Creeggan left the band because of his discomfort with the direction of the band and to begin college.
Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn and Steven Page all have side projects that are worked on during hiatus from BNL touring and studio time.
Jim is part of the alternative/jazz trio The Brothers Creeggan, with brother and former BNL member Andy Creeggan and friend Ian McLauchlan.
s170002735.onlinehome.us /CelebrityBiography-47.html   (1151 words)

  
 CD Baby: ANDY CREEGGAN: Andiwork II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Along with his brother Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies bass player), Andy was brought up in a musical household in which their mother taught piano and their father played by ear.
Andiwork II is Andy Creeggan's second solo album and the first to be nationally distributed.
Distinct in his innovation, Creeggan starts with a jazz base, as a common, grounding foundation while the winding, rebellious extremities of melody and theme wander into odd, mischievous, discolored rooms and off-the-wall territories with ease, conviction and curiosity.
cdbaby.com /cd/creeggan   (644 words)

  
 Fan Club
She says she's a huge Jim Creeggan fan and she recently bought her first Brothers Creeggan cd.
She is obessesed with BNL and Brothers Creeggan and she recently met Jim and Andy.
She loves Jim Creeggan and talks in #bnlmusic sometimes.
lila_broscreegg2.tripod.com /thebrotherscreeggan/id13.html   (580 words)

  
 Barenaked Ladies
Jim Creeggan's double bass is the backbone of Barenaked Ladies.
Jim joined Barenaked Ladies with his brother Andy back in 1989, when they toured with the stage name Boy Georges' Boys.
Jim began music at a very young age singing with his brother at family gatherings.
www.geocities.com /conanando/bnl.html   (924 words)

  
 Welcome to All Rights Reserved
Jim, Andy and Ian shacked up in the Tragically Hip's thick walled studio near Kingston, ON and cut some warm and moody tracks well protected from the fierce Fall wind.
Barenaked Lady bassist, Jim Creeggan, teams up with brother Andy (also a B.N.L. member until 1995), to compile these very personal and flavour-filled songs.
Brother Jim plays double bass, guitar, and sings while Andy, a composition student at McGill University in Montreal, plays piano, accordion, percussion, and guitar.
www.brotherscreeggan.com /section.cfm?Section_ID=104   (252 words)

  
 Brothers Creeggan
A few years back, Jim showed his musical versatility by playing upright bass on Sarah McLachlan’s Grammy-winning instrumental track "Last Dance," from the Surfacing album.
Their latest self-released CD, Trunks, is a melodic mix of catchy pop and jazz-influenced ballads, as well as snappier numbers that contain the type of quirky humor that Barenaked Ladies have made a career of.
The Brothers Creeggan with special guest Julie Doiron, Thu., Feb. 24, 8:30 p.m., Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., $10, 215-928-0978, www.tinangel.com.
www.citypaper.net /articles/022400/cw.critpick.creeggan.shtml   (271 words)

  
 MP3tunes.com
The Creeggans are a family that lives for music.
As such, the two brothers also perform and record as The Brothers Creeggan, releasing three cds thus far and touring between Barenaked Ladies albums.Andiwork II is Andy Creeggan's second solo album and the first to be nationally distributed.
It is an understated and quietly complex work that showcases a young composer weaving textural ambient pieces that draw from classical, jazz, new age and even 50s exotica with an underlying dry humour that will occassionally rise to the forefront (an excerpt with Andy coaxing his dad in the studio, for example).
www.mp3tunes.com /album_details.php?album_id=3928   (285 words)

  
 Carswell History
Carswell taught piano to two members of THE BARE NAKED LADIES, Andrew and Jim Creeggan, from 1985 until 1989 and first heard their fledgling group when it started in Berne and Nada Creeggan's suburban Scarborough basement.
Jim Carswell currently teaches vocal and instrumental music at Sheridan Park School, a French immersion school and southwest Mississauga.
Jim runs a number of workshops for our students to give them confidence and to hone their skills.
www.carswellmusic.com /history.html   (592 words)

  
 v7n68
After five years of silence, the Canadian band Brothers Creeggan have re-emerged from the darkness they were hiding in to release their third album "Trunks."
The band comprises Andy and Jim Creeggan, the latter also being the bass player in the Barenaked Ladies.
In between Jim's touring with the Barenaked Ladies and Andy's demanding solo career they gathered to work on the album as a side project.
www.csulb.edu /~d49er/spring00/diversions/v7n68-cd.html   (252 words)

  
 Jim Creeggan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 12, 1970), is the bassist for Canadian band Barenaked Ladies (BNL).
Aside from the long-haired period, his appearance has remained remarkably constant compared to that of his bandmates.
In 2006, Creeggan played the bass in Sarah McLachlan's Christmas album, Wintersong.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Creeggan   (550 words)

  
 Sleepyhead: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As the title suggests, the Brothers Creeggan render a relaxed meld of country, folk, and roots music on their fourth album.
Siblings Andy and Jim, the latter best known as the bassist in Barenaked Ladies, harmonize on cuts that celebrate life, love, and yearning with melancholy and wisdom.
Guest vocalist Sarah Harmer adds sex appeal to "Anna on the Moon," a tender dialogue that details the perils of roaming romantics, as does "Vote for Beauty." Other tracks, including "Sometimes," "Long and Slow," "Bye and Slow," and "Grey," delve into the mystical with jazzy arrangements and ethereal mood swings.
www.music.com /release/sleepyhead/1   (315 words)

  
 Brothers Creeggan
Jim is a sweetheart, and is a member in my favorite band BNL, and Andy has grown up so nicely.
One of the best things about this concert at the 7th House in Michigan, was not only was it on my best friend's birthday, You really got to hear and be with the band.
Jim Creeggan, is the older brother of the two.
www.angelfire.com /band/fuzz/creeggan.html   (230 words)

  
 http://www.radio.cbc.ca/insite/THIS_MORNING_TORONTO/1999/7/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Brothers Creeggan - Andy, formerly of the Barenaked Ladies, and Jim, still with the group - have been performing together since they were kids.
Even when they were both members of The Barenaked Ladies, they took time away to record as The Brothers Creeggan; it was an outlet for them to experiment with different things and keep their musical horizons open.
Andy and Jim are putting the finishing touches on their latest Brothers Creeggan CD and they talk to Tom Allen about that process and where they are musically these days.
www.cbc.ca /insite/THIS_MORNING_TORONTO/1999/7/19.html   (528 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Andrew Creeggan was BNL's keyboardist, he left the band after Maybe You Should Drive to return to studying music.
He still performs and releases material with (his brother) Jim Creeggan as "The Brothers Creeggan".
Kevin Hearn is the keyboardist who joined BNL after the departure of Andy Creeggan.
bnl.samediff.net /faq/band.htm   (339 words)

  
 The Metro Cafe - Washington DC
At ages 16 and 17 respectively, Andy and Jim Creeggan (THE BROTHERS CREEGGAN) rented their first four-track and learned how to use it over March Break.
It was 1992, while Jim and Andy were on tour with BNL, that they played their first gig together.
Although Andy initially brought many of his instrumental projects to the band, Jim and Andy gradually discovered that as a duo, they loved to tell stories to each other and to their audiences.
home.att.net /~metrocafe/schedule/calender/200206.html   (3154 words)

  
 Barenaked Ladies - Music Downloads - Online
Both Robertson and Page agreed that it would make a funny band name, and since the duo was already into rock music and playing guitar, the Barenaked Ladies were born.
Joining them were bass man Jim Creeggan, his brother Andy on keyboards, and drummer Tyler Stewart, and the Barenaked Ladies began to blend their comic relief sensibilities inside an eclectic mix of jazz, folk, and rock.
Hearn joined the band for 1996's obscuro-pop album Born on a Pirate Ship and again, BNL charted new celebrity territory by appearing on an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 to perform their Top 40 hit, "The Old Apartment." Success was fast, leaving BNL to sellout countless summer shows.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/100/451/6/1004516.html   (689 words)

  
 Barenaked Ladies Biography | Bio | Picture | Call Answer | Pic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Canadian band was formed in 1988 at summer camp when buds Steven Page and Ed Robertson realized they liked singing together.
The two guys spent months opening for a comedy group and decided to expand the Barenaked Ladies by adding their high school classmates, Jim (bass) and Andrew Creeggan (keyboards)- Yeah, they're brothers.
When Andrew and Jim Creeggan were kids they beat Alanis Morissette in the Canadian National Rising Star talent contest.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p665.htm   (366 words)

  
 bnlmusic.de - jim creeggan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Einiges, denn Jim hat die musikalische Ausrichtung der Band entscheidend geprägt, denn sein Kontrabass verleiht dem Sound der Ladies ein wichtiges Element.
Nebenbei bildet Jim mit seinem Bruder Andy das Duo "Brothers Creeggan".
Und noch ein Steve-Zitat: "Jim's bass playing on Pinch Me makes we want to write 'Jim is a bass god' on random walls".
www.bnlmusic.de /band_jim.html   (142 words)

  
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Is currently the bassist for the Barenaked Ladies, and is one hell of a bassist, if I may say so.
When not touring with BNL, Jim And his brother Andy have ventured into a musically solo venture as the "The Creeggan Brothers " which is currently touring now.
A: Were just releasing a new record, and were going to tour too, starting in February work our way down the west coast across the bottom states, then up the northeast.
www.rockpublication.com /bnlinterview.htm   (2649 words)

  
 Barenaked Ladies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL or occasionally BnL) is a Canadian alternative rock band currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan.
They formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, and are best known for their hit singles, "One Week", "Pinch Me", "If I Had $1000000" and "Brian Wilson", and for their light-hearted and comedic performance style.
One night, in Toronto, Ed and Steve invited their friends, percussionist Andy Creeggan and bassist Jim Creeggan, to play with them at a Christmastime club show.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Barenaked_Ladies   (3468 words)

  
 CD Baby: MIKE EVIN: I'll Bring The Stereo
Andy and his brother Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies bassist) adopted both Mike and his music and became more than mentors to him—they joke about him being their first kid.
Recorded at Jim’s old house in Parkdale (Toronto) over the summer of 2004, the album features Barenaked Ladies’ Tyler Stewart and Kevin Hearn, Kurt Swinghammer, Gary Breit, David Matheson, Rob Carli, Ian McLauchlan, as well as backup vocals by Toronto songwriter Danielle Duval.
I'LL BRING THE STEREO is superproduced; that is, its chock full of sounds and ideas, and it covers a diverse range of genres, from Mike's signature ragtime rock, to funky stuff, to soft rootsy pop songs in the tradition of The Band and Neil Young.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/mikeevin   (1239 words)

  
 Jim Creeggan guitar tabs, bass tabs, drum tabs, chords and notation @ Bandlink.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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