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Big Brother

Its only a memory of the killing floor

About Me

We are Big Brother
Big Brother is a 5-piece Groove band from Santa Clarita (north of Los Angeles). We are made up of 2 guitars, a bass, keys and drums. We’re a group of musicians that came together with one common goal, to play something we all enjoy. Luckily for us, everyone else enjoys it too.
We have influences that range from smooth jazz to heavy metal, and it all blends nicely to create something groovy. We love playing, we love music, we love our audiences and we love everything about what we do.
"The Epiphany EP", (featuring the songs up on the player^) is for sale at $5 apiece, we sincerely apologize that it costs so much, but recording those songs put us in a major monetary defecit, and this is our way of recuperating those losses.
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Big Brother started in late 2006, when we had somewhat existed as a 3 piece jam band until November of ‘06, frontman David Pramik met up with former bassist David Berg, and this became the official start of Big Brother. After a few months we found ourselves in need of a new keyboardist. This is when we found Oscar Bugarin who tried out for keys but proved to be much handier on the guitar, so instead by serendipity, he became our lead guitarist. Alec Bart shortly thereafter became Big Brother’s keyboardist. Eventually David Berg left off to college, so we found Ben Johnson to fill the void.
We have many influences that can be heard in our music including; jazz, blues, soul, funk, rock, and acoustic. We usually do not know what style to call ourselves, so in answer to that question we usually say that we fall under the category of groove.
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We have played at The Cobalt Café, The Whisky A Go Go, The Knitting Factory, the Scherr Forum in Thousand Oaks, Carvin Hollywood, The Legion Hall, and many coffee shops, restaurants, cafes, and school functions in our home town of Santa Clarita. We perform regularly and have a bi-weekly practice.
For booking information please contact us by email at [email protected], or you can call us at (661)-904-8909, ask for David.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/19/2006
Band Members: Click on the band member's picture to get their myspace

David Pramik - Vocals/Guitar

Alec Bart - Keys

Ben Johnson - Bass

Chris Pramik - Drums

Oscar Bugarin - Guitar/Vocals


Influences: Pink Floyd
The Beatles
AC/DC
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Green
John Mayer
Black Sabbath
Nickel Creek
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Opeth
Santana
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stepenwolf
Miles Davis
Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock
Steely Dan
John Coltrane
Bill Evans
McCoy Tyner
Prince
Stanley Zlarke
Art Blakey
Jaco Pastorious
Joe Zawinul
Elvis
Ray Charles
James Brown
The Rolling Stones
Steve Miller Band
Stevie Wonder
Richie Valens
Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters
Coldplay
Kansas

Sounds Like: We just got out of a time machine from the 70's and started playing.
Record Label: Independant
Type of Label: Indie