Dumber Than The Average Bear

About Me

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Layout by CoolChaser Background from flickr user ..4 Devon based musicians have banded together to form a band the likes of which have never been seen (may not be 100% true)

We are working on our own brand of surf-funk-blues-rock to deliver to the masses.

Enjoy!..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/02/2007
Band Members: Carl Vocals / Acoustic guitar / Banjo / Djembe
Tom Electric Guitars
Fraser Drums
Barry Double Bass
Paul Harmonica

Influences: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, John Butler Trio, Pete Murray, Colin Hay, Xavier Rudd, Metallica, Sublime, Johnny Cash, The Offspring, Black Sabbath, Tenacious D, Presidents of the USA, System of a Down, Ash Grunwald, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Cake, Stevie Ray Vaughn, ZZ Top, Of a Revolution, Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Air, David Bowie, The Bees, The Beta Band, Badly Drawn Boy, Cat Stevens, Dave Brubeck , Miles Davis ,Focus, Bob Dylan, I am Kloot, Death in Vegas, Doves, Elbow, John Martyn, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, Kings of Convenience, Black Uhuru, Red Snapper, The Doors, Jimi Tenor, Ninja Tunes, The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Specials, Xploding Plastix.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Gigs / Recording

It has been a while since the last update! We have been gigging at such venues as The Fat Pig / The Firehouse / The Globe and various private parties and are looking for more gigs in other venues........
Posted by on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:08:00 GMT

December Recording Session

Tomorrow we embark on a lengthy 2 day recording session at the Sound Gallery recording studio below the Phoneix in Exeter. We have been lucky to get some technical producer expertise and some great su...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:45:00 GMT

Lots of gigs

New gig dates posted, hope to see you there if you can make it.With all these gigs will shall soon of accumulated enough money to get into the studio!Thanks for your support
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:05:00 GMT

New recordings

On Saturday we all met up at Fraser's place for a session of recording.In our typical style we banged out a load of tracks in a few hours. we're not talking serious professionalism here people.the res...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:19:00 GMT

DTTAB Shakeup

There have been a couple of changes to DTTAB since the last blog:We're sounding slightly different due to Tom's splendid new electric guitar, and possibly more importantly, we have a new drummer and s...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:45:00 GMT

New recordings

Having recently discovered that Tom's digital camera does a fair trade in recording sound as well, a number of tracks have been provided for your listening pleasure.These are rough cuts obviously, but...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:41:00 GMT

Broken Sunroof Session

Last night, me (Tom) and Carl went over to our buddy Jay's parents' house where they have a small studio.Most of the gear had gone, so with the help of a water-damaged mixing desk and a battered lapto...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:23:00 GMT