Shane "Storm" Baird started his formal
music training in then 6th grade and continued to
play all through college. He has been playing in
bands outside of school since he was 15. From 2000
to 2006, he lived in San Francisco, where he played
with many great local bands, such as the Jazz Mafia.
Storm is cootdog's cousin and started playing with
MRB in 1997 shortly after the band’s inception,
and continued playing on and off for many months,
which included a Mexico tour, and many killer Bay
Area Dates. Storm continued playing with many Bay
Area projects, and all the while, continued to play
with the Mystic Roots Band for all their Nor Cal
Shows and many of the So Cal shows, as well. By
2004, Storm was playing full-time with the MRB including
much of MRB's U.S. touring. From May, 2005 to July,
2006, Storm played with Grammy-winning, Family Stone
Band, under the musical direction of Toney Yates.
Storm played all over the U.S. and some Europe dates
(in Amsterdam) with them. Yates then asked Storm
to put a horn section together for an 18 piece,
all-star gospel group for True Vine Ministries in
Oakland, CA. The band was a huge success and still
plays 1st and 3rd Sundays at the Grand lake theater.
It was certainly hard to balance the busy schedule
of Mystic Roots and the Family Stone, but with the
love and support of the MRB boys, Storm was able
to play fulltime in both bands for over a year until
MRB needed him fulltime to tour starting in June,
2006. Storm is currently featured on the new release
of Constant Struggle, a track within The cootdog
Project album, the most recent Mystic Roots track
on the Sublime Tribute DVD, and on most all of the
new, unreleased MRB material.
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