MT: How did you guys get your start?



MG: I started the band in College. We were all living in Boston, going to school living in and around Allston, Brighton, and Brookline. I wanted a band where we could play glammy funk and soul and do house partys and basement shows and things. And we did. And we had a good time. And I tricked them into thinking it was super casual. I knew I wanted to demand a lot of time of everyone and I think everyone was having a good enough time that they bought into it.

MT: Can you guys attest to that?

R: Yeah! I met Matt through my first roommate's boyfriend's cousin was Matt's roommate. And he was the first drummer in the band while I was in the band. They were our next door neighbors, so we started hanging out our freshman year.

K: I think it's funny because we each have our own story meeting Matt and coming into Evolfo. And mine was an invitation from Rafferty to come jam. I knew Rafferty cause I lived down the hall from him. I was 23 at the time while these guys were 18, and I'd hang out with Rafferty and hook him up with beer and vodka and the next thing I knew I was at a rehearse with a trumpet and the rest was sealed.

MT: So what about the other guys? Were they shanghaied into joining the band as well?

R: The core of the group was brought together pretty quickly. We did a recording session as a quartet without horns, then the next month we booked a gig and Matt got the horns and that was pretty much when we came together. It's been a rotating cast over the last five years we've been a band.