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Geoff Maestas - Guitar, Vocals
Josh Skoro - Bass Guitar (live shows)
Brian Fickle - Percussion (live shows)
The Various Lazy story
What do you get when you combine the mind of a chemical engineer, whose day job consisted of building microchips on swing shift at tech-giant Micron Technology, with the heart of a busker happy to play his guitar and sing his songs wherever there’s an audience? Read on!
Like many bands, Various Lazy came from the humble beginnings of cover songs, dive bars and college students. But unlike most bands, the story of Various Lazy took a rather unconventional path to musical maturity that resulted in a lengthy stint in the Idaho State Correctional System that is still going to this day.
Various Lazy was formed as a cover band in 1996 in Moscow, Idaho, featuring lead singer and guitarist, Geoff Maestas. As often happens with college bands, the Various Lazy members graduated and went their separate ways and Geoff moved to Boise, ID where he began writing his own songs and arrangements as a band of one in his free time. Inspired by a decade of following the Grateful Dead, String Cheese Incident, Phish and others in the jam band scene, Geoff gravitated towards unconventional song arrangements, fantastical storytelling, and the blending of Jazz, Bluegrass, Rock, and Blues. It was Geoff’s engineering left brain that inspired him to approach his music much like he approached his day job as a chemical engineer – deconstructing music down to its bare elements and putting those elements back together in new ways. As his songwriting gained momentum, he recruited Brian Fickle and Josh Skoro to the band in 2005 and as a 3-piece they began playing clubs and bars around Boise.
Just when the band had developed a following though, Geoff was arrested for selling marijuana and suddenly the future of the band was bleak indeed. As Geoff rapidly watched his free life and budding musical career cut short by the terrifying prospect of years in prison he decided to do the only thing he could to keep any sanity – record an album. In the 8 months that followed his arrest, Geoff worked on the album with the help of a large contingent of loyal and generous friends who offered both their moral and financial support in the form of recording time, web site development and hosting, sound system development and much more. On August 20th, 2007, just hours after recording the last track on the album, Geoff was sentenced to 10 years in prison with the possibility of parole after 3 years.
Since then Geoff has moved through a couple of Idaho prisons and he currently resides at a community work center facility in Boise. During most of 2008, The Tonic Room recording studio in Boise worked on mixing and mastering his album which was finally finished and released in December. We hope that Geoff's lack of any prior criminal record, long history of gainful employment as a chemical engineer and general good behavior will allow him to be paroled sometime in late 2010. Cross your fingers. In the meantime, check out the music of Various Lazy!
