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About Me

Mike Huffman, a.k.a. "Mike Magic", "Scooby", began his musical career at the age of 12 when he was interested in playing the drums. By the age of 14 he was introduced in the toledo music scene by filling in for a drummer for a local classic rock band. He continued doing so untill the age of 15 when he went to see a drum clinic performed by Steve Smith. "While I was at the clinic, I saw this guy sitting behind a monstrous brown thing on one side of the stage", said Mike. "Dad, what is that thing?" he asked his father, Bruce Huffman. "That is a Hammond B-3 organ, and a leslie speaker." replied Bruce. It wasn't long after that clinic that Mike realized that is what he wanted to play.
He began to teach himself how to play the piano, and became the piano player for the highschool jazz band. Shortly thereafter he had joined up with several of the hottest acts in his home town, Toledo, OH . He has shared the stage with many different national acts such as, Grand Funk Railroad, Bad Company, and Cheap Trick. He also placed number one in the regional blues competition in January of 2007 with Toledo's own, "Josh Boyd and the VIP Band". Mike is currently the keyboard player for Charlotte based up and coming national act, Swampdawamp. Mike proudly endorses the following products and services: Yamaha Keyboards, Nord Keyboards, The Hammond Organ Company, Leslie Speakers, Ultimate Ears (in ear monitors), and The Mental Case Company.***********************************************

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Member Since: 9/24/2006
Band Website: swampdawamp.com
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Influences: My Dad, Tower of power, Chester Thompson, Jimmy Smith, Toto, Jon Lord, Gregg Rollie, Craig Frost, Grand Funk Railroad, Earth Wind and Fire, Santana, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Allman Brothers, Lucky Peterson, James Brown, George Clinton.
Sounds Like: It has been said that if you take the funky tastefulness of Chester Thompson (Tower of Power), the screaming b3 tone of Gregg Rollie (Santana), and insane out of the box chops of Keith Emerson (ELP), and Jon Lord (Deep Purple), and place them in a blender with a shot of tequila........you would have something pretty close to mikes playing style. :
Record Label: Big Penny Entertainment
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

This is pretty funny

Chapter 1 Good People It was 1:30 pm on friday when I was on my way home from Mt. Holly, NC. My dog daisy was in the back being up to no good. I was by some railr...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:57:00 PST

Road Blog 9 (Explicit Content) Do Not Read If Your Easily Offended,

Sorry for taking so long on this one. Its been a rough couple of weeks with new releases coming out shortly, photo shoots, studio time, and trying to get ready for the spring tour. Anyways, last night...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:28:00 PST

Blog 8

Buenos Dias boys and girls. Its wednesday, I think..... and Gig, Dave, Mike, and I are all at the famous Hotel Preson in Nashville, TN finishing up some tracks for the next album. This hotel is the sa...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:02:00 PST

Road Blog 7

Alrighty folks, I know its been a while but things have been crazy and the band has been very busy. Sorry for any loss you may have incurred from me not writing a blog in a while.Anyways, Just got bac...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:59:00 PST

Blog 6

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. Alrighty then, thats about enough of that. It is saturday and we are on our brand new tour bus (dubbed, "The African Queen") ...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:35:00 PST

Blog 5

Ok, I know im not in a hotel right now, but Im not going to be in another one for a while. So with that in mind, lets move along shall we....... Im at Gig's house in Mt. Holly, NC. We just pulled in f...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:46:00 PST

Hotel Room Blog 4

Help Me!!! Well were at the fabulous Best Western in Georgia somewhere. The weather is nice down here!! Anyways, its 11:15 pm and were getting ready to head out to the gig. We play at midni...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:26:00 PST

Blog 3

..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Ok, so late last night after a long rehearsal I was feeling a bit rambunctious&&hope I spelled that right, but anyway&&I...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:17:00 PST

Hotel Room Blog 2

So I just woke up by what I thought was the sound of roosters.......COCKAFRICKINDOODLEDOO.....turns out it was just michael hough's alarm on his phone. That will be the last time that happens. Iv...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:37:00 PST

Hotel Room Blog 1

Alright, so I'm sitting in The Laquinta Hotel in Atlanta, GA waiting to get on the bus to go to the gig right? Well, I figured what a better thing to do with my time than write a b...
Posted by Mike Huffman on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:21:00 PST