Member Since: 10/02/2007
Band Members: Me (in the background) JAMMIN AT RUBE'S
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Ricardo (you can see me now!) with FRIENDS JAMMIN LIVE AT RUBE'S
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Influences: God, Steve Morse, Stevie Wonder, Uli Jon Roth, J.S. Bach, Michael Schenker, Glenn Campbell, Pat Campbell, Bruce Lee (my biggest musical influence), Bugs Bunny (numbah two), the late great Joe Arnold (with distinction), Nick Arnold, Larry Arnold, the late also great Pete Thomas, The Immaculate Love Carrots, Pat Metheny, Allan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Floyd Matthews, Jimmy Bryant, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Hamady, Blando, Paul Saylor, Scriabin, Andres Segovia, Christopher Parkening, Tommy Tedesco, Eric Clapton,Charlie Parker, Van Halen, Jeff Beck (please!), Neal Schon, Yngwie (yeah, I said it, big whoop, you wanna fight about it?!?),Tony MacAlpine, Richard Pryor, Funkilinium and Nike (ask me why), Dizzy Gillespie, the Dregs (Dixie and otherwise),Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robin Williams, Igor Stravinski, Prince, Yo-Yo Ma, Dio, The Isleys, Hiram Bullock, Miles Davis, Steve Martin, Jeff Berlin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Illyich Tchaikowski, Sherm Mitchell, Bix Biderbeck, the Marsalis family, Richard Fodor, Artur Rubinstein, Itzhak Perlman, Roy Clark, Chet Atkins, Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, pre-Jay Leno Kevin Eubanks, Gary Moore, Allen Sloan, Gary Fuller, Doc Severinson, The Nuge (yeah, I said it, big whoop, you wanna fight about it?!?), Joe Pass, Andre Watts, whoever that guy is that played piano for Mr. Rogers, including Mr. Rogers, Dana Piper, Roy Buchannon, Rick Derringer, Oscar Peterson, the Prophet Frank Zappa, pre-Idols Randy Jackson, Stanley's Clark and Jordan (especially Jordan), Robin George, Lawrence Welk (did I type that out loud?), Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Steely Dan, Iron Maiden, Jake E. Lee, MY MOTHER, Felix Mendelssohn, Antonin Dvorac, Chick Corea, John MacLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Chuck Rainey, yeah, that about covers one fifteenth of it.
Sounds Like: The Joy of Playing...whatever & whenever I can. Genres and categories are no fun at all.
Record Label: Unsigned