Feeding Like Butterflies
Canadian folk-rock/Celtic music group
Feeding Like Butterflies' is a Canadian folk-rock/Celtic music group from Edmonton. Their songs have been featured on Dawson's Creek and a number of Roger Corman movies, among other outlets. The band's style has been compared to Jethro Tull.
History
Feeding Like Butterflies was founded in the early 1990s by lead vocalist and songwriter Jason O. Johnson, who is also a Film/TV Actor
Founding members of the group included bassist Troy Johnson (brother to Jason), Cellist Martin Johann Kloppers, keyboardist/accordionist Doran Chandler, guitarist/mandolinist Mike Sanders, and drummer Darren Carter. Later versions of the band included guitarist/mandolinist Ken Drolet, Andy Waitkus, Ralph Bently, drummer Greg Pretty, Derek Loewen, Jason Sound, Thom Golub and keyboardist/accordionist Rob Thompson..
Post band touring, Johnson became involved in acting in voice and on screen , most notably as LIPPY in the critically acclaimed PHOBIES game series . Johnson is also credited as an experimental periphery hardware designer for Playstation and Xbox in creating the FRAGFX and MotionFx controllers in the early 2000’s.
The group's first album, John in his Earth Suit, was recorded in Edmonton at Anvil Recording in 1993. That same year, the band was signed to S.L. Feldman and Associates/Bruce Allen (band manager) and performed shows with Crash Test Dummies, Jann Arden and Moxy Früvous.
A video single release of the song "Mexicalli Midbender", which featured singer Johnson hanging from a helicopter in a straight jacket, reached Top 10 rotation on Canada's video channel Much Music.
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