Lazzlo goes way back to the Grateful Dead when Jerry was alive,  the two founding members Oogie and Lazzlo met in Atlanta at jazz guitar school, the Atlanta Institute of Music, where Jimmy Herring (currently with Widespread Panic) was their professor.  While in Atlanta, their band Sputnik Grove grew out of the emerging Dresden Drive music scene.  

Many years and miles later while playing music in upstate New York, they found a talented drum and harmonica playing kid with such a heart for music. Billy played harmonica twice with Willie Nelson at the Schenectady County New York Fair as a boy.  He is also an accomplished drummer and mandolin player.   Along with William Tucker, the three formed a solid core to their band, Hoy.  Hoy played psychedelic, jam band music in the Burlington, Vermont area including Nectar's bar, famous for giving Phish their start.  It was in Vermont that they met their keyboard and B3 organ player, Hayden, who took piano lessons alongside Grace Potter (from Grace Potter and  the Nocturnals) while he was growing up in central Vermont.  

After many years of playing, the final piece of the musical puzzle (the bass player) had remained a band position that could not be filled.  Until now!  Bubba Sweet, the bass player, is the teenage son of Oogie and a thumping, phenomenal bassist.  He grew up listening to the music and has an ear for sound!