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Graham Terry

About Me

Hello there, funny that you made it here!

I'm a violinist turned guitarist turned barista turned violin and guitar teacher turned bassist who studied music and French at UC Davis, lives in Oakland and makes his living plunking a beastly 5 string in this kick ass group called Tornado Rider. My other name is Grameecious the Black and I like it. I enjoy learning, and playing anything musical, if you expose it to me and if I like it, I'll probably learn it in my own little way. Although I no longer don't teach very often, I still love doing it and try to take whatever little opportunity that arises. I enjoy writing my own music (some tunes featured above), learning other people's music, recording, mixing, and pretending to be a producer (with my own music, hopefully other people's music in the future). I also speak french, and hope to return to that wonderful country in the near future. Hope you like what you hear, check out the kick ass band that I proudly let run my life at www.tornadoriderband.com , and at myspace.com/tornadoriderband .
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Member Since: 18/11/2006
Band Website: www.tornadoriderband.com
Band Members: Graham Terry (guitar/vocals), Clark Terry (bass/vocals), Greg Maximov (drums), Melody Mundy (violin/piano)
Influences: Beatles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Chris Thile (from nickel creek), Queens of the Stone Age, my family of talented musicians, and my friends, most of which are talented musicians just as well.
Sounds Like: My influences
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Recording

It's a new recording of an old song, the 2nd song I had ever written, Disease. The recording method was a bit different this time. It features Greg Maximov on the drums. He's playing on a V drums kit ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:33:00 GMT

A bit of an update

A lot has happened since my previous posting. I actually moved to San Francisco for about 7 months, and I just moved again to Oakland. I was working 6 days a week at Starbucks and at a music school te...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:10:00 GMT

Another song

You know, i said i was gonna work on something like an album over the summer, well, i could never really afford the gear i wanted to get, and some priorities got changed, which is just fine. So, i did...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:27:00 GMT

New song

So I've posted a new song, it is still in its early form, but I wanted to post it as a preview to what is going to happen over the summer, and to what is going to happen next in grahamBand. This is ge...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:14:00 GMT

It's ready

After months of teaching, practicing, fiddling, noodling, googling, whining, beer drinking, and rock squatting, the grahamBand is ready to penetrate the realm of live performance, and rock your asses...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:57:00 GMT

Progress!!

OK, so here's the deal, I have tried doing some acoustic stuff, and it's all doable, I just don't think the music suits the coffee shop environment, and it has also been quite difficult booking shows....
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:58:00 GMT

2 projects

Well one of them is finished and it's exciting for me.....1. I finally finished the first CD over christmas break. It was a chance to do all the things i didn't have time for while school was going on...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:49:00 GMT

I played in a wedding recently

It was great, I had such an awesome time, it was the easiest thing I've ever had to do with a band in my life. I played guitar to wedding songs, rockin' music from the latter half of the 20th century ...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:52:00 GMT

The Beatles-Love

This is in thanks to my brother (http://cellarratblog.com) who illegally burned me the "new" Beatles CD, Love, and it is damn good. So, that having said, I should buy it. It was a serious nostalgia tr...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:29:00 GMT