Member Since: 10/14/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/jonbergerdrums
Band Members: Heights -"Exit music", "Carnaval Del Barrio" , "Paciencia fe" Me subbing " - " In the Heights live on Broadway - Drum kit . Timbales , Repinique , Shaker , Bells, Blocks , Guira .
Joe Tompkins Congas / Percussion , Doug Hinricks - Percussion Irio Ofarril -Bass Manny Moreira -Guitar
" Blues for now " "Funk Guy"- Spontaneous Composers - Me and Dan Willis -Reeds
Chaos pad
VIDEO- Jimmie Devine-Vox. Takeshi Asai - Keys Lou Pappas -Bass JB- Drums
Influences: Nature , washer and dryers , trains , children especially my own , My teachers-Danny Sciente , Joe Vasilli , Ray Desroches, Dick Horowitz ,Gary Chester ,Kenwood Dennard,Mike Carvin, Peter Erskine. Also Inspired by Tony Williams,Billy Cobham,Stewart Copeland and bands,Steve Gadd,Peter Erskine ,John Bonham ,Buddy Rich , Liberty Divito , Mitch Mitchell , Buddy Miles , Airto and Flora, Sting , Vinnie Calaiuta, , Frank Zappa , Jaco ,Igor Stravinsky, Irekere ,Gilberto Gil ,Tania Maria, Sergio Mendez ,Weather report, Fishbone , Chicago , Bob Mintzer , led Zepp , Mike Clark ,keith Jarret , Daisaku Ikeda , Santana , The Brecker brothers, Jeff Beck, Mike Stern ,Trilok Gurtu ; Too many to list them all . "2 kinds of Music (said Ellington) good and bad". As many of my favs do for me, I try to breathe life into what ever it is I am playing . Move my listeners to deep emotions w/ out saying a word. I know I've succeeded when people begin to move.
Sounds Like: The life I live and I try to learn from every moment
Record Label: Unsigned