Press Quotes:

At the Circle Bar, a young guy sporting a shaggy goatee and wearing a fez jumped and jived while playing a twigged-out version of the Animals' "We've Gotta Get Out Out of This Place" on vibes. "That's one of the best things I've ever heard," I told him.
- New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 22, 2001

Brian Fisherman came from California with his vibes and a dream to play his Polynesian-tinged exotica lounge music in a New York City tiki bar.
- The New York Times, November 17, 2002

S.F's Famous Burlesque Orchestra grew out of Fisherman's Burlesque, a group started by Brian Lease in 1998... Fisherman's Burlesque quickly became a repository for members of local rock scene, including East Bay Ray, the Dead Kennedys guitarist who'd played with Lease in the saucy lounge group Frenchy; ex-Thinking Fellers drummer Paul Bergmann; and one-time Courtney Love bandmate Suzanne Ramsey.
- SF Weekly, September 25, 2002

Brian Lease works out the charts, picks the music for this special event and voila:behind the Fisherman's Famous San Francisco Burlesque show on stage, live, and in person, I hear the most exciting set of music played by anyone in the past five years.The highlight of the set came somewhere in the middle, during the performance of a fire dancer; the band slowly rises to a maddening crescendo during a version of Cal Tjader's "Fakir". and suddenly in my mind, there is more going on here than meets the eye. And the eyeful is plenty.
- Scram Magazine, Issue #12