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ryan thomas becker

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About Me

. . . established in 1982, also plays/fingered part/full/heart-time in a couple/few other bands, such as sunday drive and the muggabears and RTB2 and aubrey and eaton lake tonics and the international and the Slow Burners . enjoys the warm glow of a porta 02 mkII. forever seeks the perfect blend of innocence and experience and reigns as a six footer. . . and we cannot stop ourselves, why should we, how could we?! think think think. . .
More motion photos here .
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REVIEWS (lovingly posted without permission):
"best work to date and some of the best music I have heard in a long time... I feel like you should do something about it."
--michael r. welch of the meanderthals.
"...No one stands above him. He is quite tall."
--anonymous we shot j.r. comment.
"His songs manage to balance sincere emotion and humor without falling into overwrought emotion or relentless irony. Unnecessary but interesting found sounds and odd instrumentation spice up some of his songs."
-- jesse hughly of the dallas observer.
"Don't be a hero."
-- Matthew Barnhart .
"He is also in the Ponystars and used to play soccer and he looks so cool and has nice parents."
--funanimal comotion.
"...this guy is damned entertaining! if Banter's intuition is correct, this man's ablilties are much deeper than we know... musically, imaginatively, & spiritually."
-- banter .
"...heartfelt....uncompromised..."
--jim cross of jim cross.
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Albums available at Recycled Books .
View Blogs for detailed album info (lyrics, recording notes, etc.)
Purchoose NOW from Special Session Recordings:
Ryan Thomas Becker - Uncomfortable Index Fingers
CD (SSR008 - 2005)
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Go to guTTerTh.com:

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show(z) & promo(z):
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FREE ONLINE MUSIC COMPILATION:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/15/2005
Band Website: narconews.com
Band Members: legs, mostly legs, and friends.
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hey, check it out.
spoon with our albums at,
specialsessions.com . check out the other hard working artists on the site. thanks.
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Check out more RTB2 tunes
on the extravagant isound:
www.isound.com/rtb2 .
and on Last.fm:

Influences: .... hope , giants, legs, truth, unusual hairstyles and cool weather, irony, eyeglasses, echoes , oklahoma redbuds in the middle of the spring, all sexes, pronunciation, other trees and bushes, the wind , automobiles and some bicycles, rooftops , pants, phalanges, a pen, the state of texas, reasons , comfortable shoes, teeth, skin , bellies, the extended family, criminals, allergies, papers , concept albums, cigarette smoke, jokes, button-ups with the sleeves rolled up, the state of confusion, sunsets , very small/large objects, rest, beds, ideals and the absense of ideals (culinary and/or religious), symbols , shoulders, socks, sickness, so-called imperfections, love , change in a bottle, gum, rocks , grant m.f.c., orange sherbet, beating hearts , many musics, music-playing-people, books and the writers and the audiences , and rolling films and the makers, and touch ....

Sounds Like: ...smells, airplanes, pearl snaps, metroid, carousels, sliding fingers, sizzlin' hashbrowns, sleigh bells, feedback, clapping, loud pizza...

...and...

...and...

Peruse these artists:

Deep Snapper , Fight Bite , Violent Squid , Florene , Dirty Water Disease , Febrifuge , Verülf , Record Hop , Kaleo Kaualoku , Ella Minnow , Alison O'Meara (freewebs.com/thevioletvinyl), J.Gray , starhead , The Heartstring Stranglers , jetscreamer , The Make Believers , Audrey Lapraik , Pinebox Serenade , Matthew and the Arrogant Sea , The Baptist Generals /Chris Flemmons, Stanton Meadowdale , Bryce Isbell , Glen Farris , The Heelers , Jason Ashbaugh , Big ol Bastards , Jeff Moore, Little Grizzly , superloveattack , Tex Winters , Daniel Folmer , New Science Projects , Delmore Pilcrow , Carrie Conditt , Nouns Group , Aaron Leis , Melanie Gomez , etc. try starting with recycled books , online , the porch , dan's , guTTerTh , rgrs . stay away from snooty blogs/reviews = just read the news (help YERSELF). thanks.
Record Label: SSR.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

RTB2 Nominated for Quick Music Awards 2008.

RTB2 has been nominated for "Next Big Thing" in the Quick’s Big Thing Local Music Awards 2008. It’s an honor to be among the other great and deserving artists of this category and of the a...
Posted by ryan thomas becker on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:51:00 PST

New RTB2 album: THE BOTH OF IT...

RTB2 - The Both of It1. You are Golden When You Walk2. Broken Treeline3. Your Name Stays in My Throat4. Abner5. Need/Want (Part IV)6. Beta Crush-----He Only Car-------8. My Butterfly Collection9. Thro...
Posted by ryan thomas becker on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:57:00 PST

RTB - Microsongs: guTTerTh exclusive download...

The good people @ guTTerTh productions have posted a collection of recently recorded pieces for download. Waxed with a Sony M-607V Voice Operated Recording Cassette-Corder. Available only through the ...
Posted by ryan thomas becker on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:47:00 PST

RTB2 Single/EP/Release: WISHY WALTZ...

RTB2. Wishy Waltz. 2007.Tunes:1. Wishy Waltz.+2. Throat.*3. My Butterfly Collection.*4. Need/Want (Part IV).5. Broken Treeline.*6. Yer Fool's Suite (Part II) (Live).^7. My Butterfly Collection (Live)...
Posted by ryan thomas becker on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:38:00 PST

Album info'd: Uncomfortable Index Fingers (view more?!)

ryan thomas becker. uncomfortable index fingers. all songs/ideas/accidents recorded from sometime late 2003 to early 2005 on 4trk and various handheld tape recorders in norman, ok and highland villag...
Posted by ryan thomas becker on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:57:00 PST

live RTB.

m'played a show at J&J's PizzaHog on november 16th, 2006. it was hosted by gutterth productions. the "also perform'd" included new science projects, daniel folmer, miss celia, and david ray (please g...
Posted by ryan thomas becker on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:28:00 PST

rotate'em.

...the names of people and things......william blake, mark linkous, john kricfalusi, sam elliott, bill callahan, robert smith, bon scott, joseph conrad, freddie mercury, brian eno, leo kottke, tom wai...
Posted by ryan thomas becker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST