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The Rick Miller Band

About Me

David James AKA: "The Glue" and me Rick Miller are the founding members. David is a busy musician around San Antonio he plays in 3 bands. My brother Randy Mann (the silent member) introduced us. I had taken some time off from music to pursue the American dream. Then one day I realized that it wasn't my dream. Never having given up on my song writing I contacted Dave. We auditioned all of two drummers when in comes Will Statezny with soccer shorts and a bottle of water to try out. He blew us away with his ability to feel a song he had never heard before and get in the pocket from the word go. We worked hard on the rhythm section all the while trying to decide which direction to go with our lead instrument. Now David is a rocker to the bone so he knows some good Rock & Roll guitar players. We went thru a couple of guitar players trying to find the sound that we were looking for. Beginning with Mike " The Maestro" Aurora. Mike was a good player in fact he is all over the CD and we are still real good friends but Mike is a bit of a musical whore too not to mention the fact that he is a born again schoolboy so his schedule was not working well with the band. We tried out Steve Yates he was even more on the rock side than Maestro. Steve played with us for the first 6 months and everything seemed to be working well but since our music is so versatile we decided we needed a more versatility out of our guitar player so via our stand in bass player Jerry Winkler enters Matt Gilmore. Matt plays a plethora of styles jazz, country, rock or what ever the song calls for he is on top of it. He is not originally from Texas and trust me we hold that against him evry chance we get. To round out the lead work and add his harmonies, we hired Randy Barnette on guitar as well. He is a long time friend and great Country and Blues picker that just moved back from Fort Worth, TX, but is originally from neighboring Boerne. Seriously I love what we our doing and I love where we our going with this project.

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Music:

Member Since: 26/08/2006
Band Website: www.rickmillerband.com
Band Members: Rick Miller - Lead Vocals, Electric and Acoustic GuitarDave James - Bass Guitar, Backing VocalsMatt Statezny - DrumsRandy Barnette - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
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Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Black bigsby guitar


Sounds Like: I have been trying to define our music and it has been difficult. It is Texas Music and that doesn’t necessarily mean red dirt country or Texas swing or Texas blues we are all of that intertwined. When I write music I don’t write the song to match a style. I write a song to be a song, that’s it whatever style it is, it is. We are a little bluesy, we are a little red dirt country, we are definitely a little rock and roll and that to me is Texas Music. We take everything that is good mix it up and put our own twist on it. Kinda like a burrito with hot sauce on it. Mix it all up!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The Album is Here!!

For those who haven't heard yet, The Rick Miller Band's debut cd is now out and available.  You can go to the website at www.rickmillerband.com to order it, or come see us at a live show for a li...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:12:00 GMT

Our new web site www.rickmillerband.com

Hey ya'll check out the official Rick Miller Band Web Site www.rickmillerband.com
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:27:00 GMT

missing songs

Sorry floks I had to remove the songs. We are almost done with the CD and I want you to here the finished product. It will be coming soon!
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:04:00 GMT

Progress

Okay it has been awhile~There is allot to say but I don't have much time so I will keep this short. We have finally finished the guitar work on the CD. Some of the songs have 10 different guitar ...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:22:00 GMT

Sad Day

Great Loss   Yesterday as I was leaving work I received a phone call from a dear friend Madge Rachelle. She asked if I had heard anything. As selfish as I am I thought something good was about t...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:10:00 GMT

I have got to Slow down

Sorry it has been a while since I have written a blog. I keep trying to get around the IT guy at work and unfortunately I think he has won our little chess match. I have a lot to catch up on. So I wil...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:03:00 GMT

Friends Old and New

Ever since I have been playing music again I keep running in to old friends of mine. I love this! A few weeks past Steve my guitar player calls me up all worried that I am looking for a new guitar p...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:27:00 GMT

Claudio Leiva

Hello Folks, Rick Miller here once again on a beautiful Monday Morning. I feel like I need to go in to some detail about my audio engineer Claudio Leiva.  He hails from Chile where he received hi...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:23:00 GMT

My Fun Filled Sat.with Matt Barker & Friends

Saturday we were in the studio again. I had asked Maestro Aurora to do some guitar work on some of the songs and he brought this cat named Joey Fender with him. If you get the chance you have to check...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:10:00 GMT

the Sand Man

     Look I told ya'll that Keith Harter studios was cool but I had no idea how cool it was. Last Wednesday night Dave was going to put down a new Bass line and sitting i...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:48:00 GMT