Jim's Big Ego
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
formed in 1995 under the leadership of singer/songwriter Jim Infantino
Jim Infantino
Jim Infantino is an American singer-songwriter and leader of the band Jim's Big Ego, as well as being a graphic designer, web designer, poet, and stalwart of the Boston folk scene. He majored in philosophy at Haverford College and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts...
.
Among the band's songs are "The Ballad of Barry Allen", based on Barry Allen
Barry Allen
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(The Flash
Flash (comics)
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), a character co-created by Infantino's uncle Carmine Infantino
Carmine Infantino
Carmine Infantino Carmine Infantino Carmine Infantino (born May 24, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York is an American comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books...
, and "New Lang Syne" (sometimes also called "Thank God It's Over"), a new New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve
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song featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered
All Things Considered
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in 2001.
Members
- Jim InfantinoJim InfantinoJim Infantino is an American singer-songwriter and leader of the band Jim's Big Ego, as well as being a graphic designer, web designer, poet, and stalwart of the Boston folk scene. He majored in philosophy at Haverford College and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts...
- guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, lead vocals - Jesse Flack - double bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
, vocals - Dan Cantor - drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s, vocals
Discography
- 1996 - Titanic
- 1996 - More Songs About Me
- 1998 - Don't Get Smart
- 1999 - Y2K - Hooray! (EP)
- 2000 - Noplace Like Nowhere
- 2003 - They're Everywhere
- 2005 - Support the Truth (EP E-Album)
- 2008 - free*
External links
- Official Jim's Big Ego web page
- "New New Year Song" from NPR's All Things Considered December 31, 2001
- Jim's Big Ego collection at the Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
's live music archive - The Ego & The Oracle: Stage show featuring Jim's Big Ego in an experiment of "musical fortune-telling."