San Diego Reader

Matt Strachota: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric) | Brian Barrabee: Bass guitar, Vocals | Ben Johnson: Vocals | Tim "Big Baby" Johnson: Drums

Genre: Alternative, Rock

Sound description: KGB Sky Shows circa the 1980s.

RIYL: Tarrakian, Utopia, Sleeping People, Gort, '70s-style hard rock

Upcoming Local Shows

Discography

Related Links:

• http://www.myspace.com/thelongandshortofit

• Blurt: "Record Release Roundup" · March 18, 2009

• Blurt: "Third Degree" · July 27, 2006

Synoposis

Influences: Hot Snakes, Melt Banana, Big Business, the North Atlantic, Hostile Combover, the International Playboys, Sleeping People, Birds of Avalon, Made out of Babies, Party Time, RPG, Bob Logg III, National Sunday Law, the Ruby Doe, the Family Curse, Get Your Death On

Background:

The Long and Short of It say they play “a pastiche of aggressive rock forms including punk, prog, metal, and '70s hard rock.”

“We wanna be a fierce, in-your-face band,” says singer Ben Johnson, also plays drums for Hostile Comb-Over. Johnson was attending college in Santa Cruz with his brother Tim "Big Baby" Johnson when the siblings met bassist Brian Barrabee, who is paralyzed from the chest down, the result of a May 2004 accident.

Barrabee recruited Bartenders Bible guitarist Matt Strachota. Their debut album  Flight of the Mallard was released in 2007. Their newest full-length CAW! An Unkindness of Ravens was released in 2009. In September, it won Best Hard Rock Album at the San Diego Music Awards.