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Ben Rogers’ Instrumental Asylum

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ONE OF THE TOP 10 ROOTS ALBUMS OF 2007 (Reverb Rehab) – Billy Pinnell, Rhythms Magazine Writers' Poll (Australia) ____________________________________________________________ ____Like Hank Marvin on Acid! ____________________________________________________________ ____When electric guitars ruled the earth…Ben Rogers was listening, learning and stealing everything he could from Django Reinhardt, Hank B. Marvin, Duane Eddy, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, JJ Cale and Peter Green. Having now left the primordial ooze, he’s unleashing his fearful blend of surf/gypsy/Tarantino rock solid pulp guitar truth and fiction to the masses. Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum is a trio made up of electric guitar, bass and drums and features reverb drenched guitar music that echoes some of the best work of The Shadows, Ventures and Surfaris, but with an extreme left turn towards the surreal. All done up with an Aussie accent. ____________________________________________________________ _____ “…this is a band that takes no prisoners.” – Matthew Frederick, The Age (Australia) ____________________________________________________________ _____“A muscular, lovingly distorted guitar sound” – Greg Haymes, Times Union (USA) ____________________________________________________________ _____“Huge guitar, intense energy, and very emotional” – Phil Dirt, Reverb Central (Santa Cruz USA) ____________________________________________________________ _____ "Against the hard-driving rhythm section of Nikki Scarlett on bass and Denis Close on drums, Ben fires salvo after salvo of tastily aggressive licks…” – Alan Taylor, Pipeline (UK) ____________________________________________________________ _____ “The overall one-two punch of dazzling instrumentals played by expert hands makes Reverb Rehab one of the most favorable guitar instrumental CDs of the millenium” – Robert Silverstein, 20th Century Guitar (USA) ____________________________________________________________ _____ “Their cover of Dick Dale’s Shake’n’Stomp is feverishly hot and the opening track KangaRoux could run at the beginning of the next Tarantino movie.” – Karl Mayerhofer, Australian Guitar ____________________________________________________________ _____ “A mind-twisting compound of guitars, genre-swapping, echo and a garden frog, Reverb Rehab is, well, quite mad. Love it!” – Phil Bennett, Nova West (Perth Western Australia) ____________________________________________________________ _____ “glimpses of Django Reinhardt, Peter Green and J.J. Cale poke through Rogers' Strat...” – Dan Forte, Vintage Guitar Magazine (USA) ____________________________________________________________ ____ _ “This is tough, punchy, guitars-astride-the-world stuff, not for the faint-hearted” – Ken Williams, the Sunday Age (Australia) ____________________________________________________________ ____Purchase from:Australian Distributor MGM Distribution: http://www.thegroovemerchants.com Payplay (MP3 format): http://payplay.fm/rogersia Waterfront Records: http://www.waterfrontrecords.com CDBaby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/rogersia (Welcome to the Instrumental Asylum), and http://cdbaby.com/cd/rogersia2 (Reverb Rehab) ____________________________________________________________ __

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Member Since: 03/01/2007
Band Website: www.blazz.com.au
Band Members: Ben Rogers - Guitar. Nikki Scarlett - Bass Guitar & Double Bass. Denis Close - Drums & percussion.
Influences: The Shadows, The Ventures, Django Reinhardt, Duane Eddy, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, JJ Cale, Peter Green, Danny Gatton, Atlantics, Wishbone Ash.
Sounds Like: Hank B Marvin on acid, Ventures with distortion, ranging from heavy surf to deep twang, lots of reverb and echo, Link Wray, Neil Young without vocals, Jeff Beck. “Huge guitar, intense energy, and very emotional” – Phil Dirt, Reverb Central (Santa Cruz USA) “a guitar player whose genre bending technique, taste and eclecticism place him among the world’s great guitarists.” – Billy Pinnell, Music Australia Guide (Australia)
Record Label: Blazz Music, MGM (www.thegroovemerchants.com)
Type of Label: Indie

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