All of the Above is a compilation of songs played live by Brahms’ Third Racket – Wishnefsky’s current project.

In a live setting, B3R consists of Wishnefsky (guitar, keyboards, lead vocals), R. Matthew Carroll (bass, guitar, backing vocals) and David Rodgers (drums, no vocals since Dave is the strong, silent type; plus his singing bares a striking resemblance to the death moans of a drowning brontosaurus which, though pleasing to some ears, doesn’t quite fit stylistically with B3R’s usual sonic approach).

These songs are culled from B3R’s first record Strings Attached and a number of Wishnefsky solo records (Sunlight Disinfectant, Fiasco – Book One, Nightwalker, Idiot Proof). This is not the complete collection of songs B3R might play live. They have been known to play new unreleased material, older Wishnefsky material, and even a few songs from Wish and Dave’s old band Jabberwock. B3R does not repeat the same set. They keep it fresh, kind of like the mints in the bowl at the reception desk of a nice hotel.

The idea here is to make it easier for you (listener, fan, music enthusiast, glutton for punishment) to become familiar with some of the material B3R might play for you at one of their performances.

Unless you know where to look, it is not that easy to blindly stumble upon B3R music. At this current juncture in time, the popular media outlets have yet to discover B3R and expose its repertoire to the huddled masses. This is sad or, perhaps, fortunate, depending on your perspective. Not many have discovered B3R, but those who have done so might prefer to keep B3R all to themselves. Of course, it is our great hope that you enjoy listening to this music and that it inspires you in some fashion, preferably a positive one. We would be most appreciative if you chose to spread the word about B3R. We would also be quite understanding if you chose instead to focus your attention on other unrelated endeavors. We want you to be happy. Really. You see, an unhappy audience hurls objects at the stage and that creates liability issues we prefer to avoid if at all possible. Frankly, we’d like to see you nice and happy because we care about you a lot. By coincidence, we also care a lot about the health and safety of the band members on stage. Plus, though they are tax write-offs technically speaking, we’d like to keep our insurance premiums relatively low. You know how carriers love to jack up the rates for repetitive claims arising from audience-projectile-versus-band-member injuries. Besides, we want to perform as well as possible for you, which could be challenging to accomplish while wearing helmets and armored clothing and having to duck from a barrage of flying beer bottles, chairs, vegetables, and waitresses. While you might derive some nefarious satisfaction and relieve some deep seated psychological angst by whipping a well-aimed ashtray at the stage that renders the drummer unconscious, the remaining conscious band members would then likely find it hard to play in time. The music would suffer; thereby causing further insult to the audience’s sensibilities and running the risk of inciting further violence towards the band. A negative feedback loop would result: bad vibes basically, both literally and figuratively. We seek to avoid such a nasty state of affairs. Hence, the bottom line is we want you to be very very very happy when we play music for you. Nonetheless, just so there are no surprises and out of an abundance of caution, our pre-performance preparation may include super-gluing removable objects and small animals to the tables and walls. Not that we don’t trust you or anything.