Bob Kilgore

Music:

Member Since: 11/17/2006
Band Website: http://www.weaseltrap.com
Band Members: On Bob’s first two CDs, Phoenix Song and Epicycles...

Bob Kilgore played Martin and Ovation acoustic guitars. He used his Harmonic Capo on most tunes.

Tim Kilgore played all keyboards and percussion

Influences: My influences are quite varied. I grew up in a house full of musicians, so it was never quiet. I was exposed to classical music early, but also 60's folk music and jazz. I was already playing guitar at age 10, in a pseudo-classical style. I should've known something was up when I kept composing tunes in odd time signatures. That seemed to come naturally.

My first real musical epiphany came in 1974, when I saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra perform at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. They had to peel me off the wall after that show. It changed my life. John McLaughlin was my first guitar hero, but I soon discovered others, like Al di Meola, Allan Holdsworth, John Etheridge and John Goodsall. Okay, I was impressed by speed. But I also loved John McLaughlin's compositions for their odd time signatures and polyrhythym. To this day, I still play "The Dance of Maya" because I just love the idea of a blues in 20/8 time.

I also listened to a lot of fusion bands, like Chick Corea's Return to Forever, Jean-Luc Ponty, Weather Report, Shakti, Soft Machine, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Brand X, Pekka Pohjola (another hero), The Dixie Dregs, Daryl Way, Passport, Coliseum, SFF, Arti & Mestieri, Iceberg and Banco.

Then there was the electronica influence: Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Jan Hammer, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, and Synergy.

And I can't forget the progressive-rock influences, like ELP, Genesis (old and older) Yes, Gentle Giant, Bill Bruford and UK.

My second major epiphany came with the discovery of Michael Hedges. I listened to his first two records over and over, never fully understanding how he was doing it until I finally saw him on stage. I had me a new hero! Michael opened the door to the whole Windham Hill catalog, so I soon discovered Will Ackerman, Alex de Grassi and Mark Isham.

The next epiphany came with my first exposure to the music of Steve Reich. Oddly enough, it was at a punk club in Washington, DC. I was waiting to see Kit Watkins perform there and they played Music for a Large Ensemble over the PA before the show. I was entranced. Here was intense, pulsating counterpoint like I had never heard before. I was hooked. This naturally let to my discovery of the other minimalists, Philip Glass, John Adams and Terry Riley.

And that led me to Karl Orff, which completed the circle back to classical music, where I started.

People don't have much trouble hearing the influence of Steve Reich and Michael Hedges in my music, but all the others are in there somewhere.
Sounds Like: Sounds exactly like this:

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Phoenix Song

The Puppeteer
Traveler's Tale
Event Horizon
Shadow Dance *
The Faerie Bride
Music of the Spheres
Returning Home
Froggie's Night Out
Positive Spin
How the Other Half Lives
Waiting My Turn *
Still Waiting *
Solitaire *
Cloudburst
Tender Age
Can't Say Never

* - guitar duets

Epicycles

Natural Order
Acceptance and Denial
Tap Dance
Autumn Daydream
Blue Water - White Water
Now or Never
Siren Song
IDIBITS
Interplay
Sky Chaser
Something's There
From Point A
Frames of Reference Pt 1
Frames of Reference Pt 2
Frames of Reference Pt 3
Epicycles

All compositions are by Bob, except for "Can't Say Never", which is really more Tim's composition than Bob's. (The title was given in response to Tim's claim that he "never" titled his own tunes.)

Unless otherwise specified, there were no guitar overdubs used in these recordings. Multi-tracking was used to layer keyboards and percussion, but all the guitar parts are live.

The original recordings were made on TASCAM analog gear using 15 ips tape. These recordings were remastered to 24-bit digital using an Akai DPS24 workstation. A big thank you goes to Akai Professional and for my friends at DPS World for making these CDs possible.

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Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Unsigned