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Project: Riff-Raff

About Me

... I'm getting the songs recorded and posted as time permits. Keep in mind, I'm mixing this stuff down myself... and have no experience doing so. EQ'ing isn't as easy as it looks either. Most tunes have been recording using minimal equipment and only 4 tracks. That's why we call them "Ruff Cutz," ladies and gentlemen.
I've always had a thing for sinister-looking clowns. Maybe because it was the most terrifying thing I knew of when I was at a very impressionable young age... and now, since one of them never did visit me in the dead of night and terrorize my very soul, I just think they're cool looking. So that's why they're here, thanks for asking.
I've been writing music since I figured out that I could. Now, the crap I write that I especially dig, I can record... lots of it, I'll put here.
My buddy, Jose, and I sit around and play riffs... and then I make 'em into something resembling songs. Influences? We're influenced by stuff we play - which is influenced by stuff we've heard before and then our songs are sculpted by stuff we know about. Anyone who answers anything else is probably lying.
Jose grew up in the Southeast, and was seasoned on the Left Coast, before returning to the Southeast. I grew up in the frozen North and moved South at the turn of the century. (I've always wanted to use that term regarding my own life - which is why I wrote this paragraph to begin with.)
I've got some more writing and recording to do - so why am I still typing this drivel?
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/20/2007
Band Members: Jay Dobbertin - Throat, Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Keys, Synth/Loop-Programming
Jose Sanchez - Guitar, Morale
Influences: Influences? Life! ... and all the bands and artists who made us want to play - and continue to play... such as:
David Bowie, Ozzy, Poison, Curtis Sorell, Anastesia, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Road Kill, The Stones, Kansas, Warrant, Brittany Fox, Ironic, AC/DC, Kiss, Bill Lirones, Motley Crue, Ratt, GTR, Metallica, The Cult, Boston, Megadeth, Danzig, Queensrych, Dangerous Toys, Smashed Gladys, Whitesnake, Springsteen, Ronnie Keel, Stryper, David Lee Roth, Styx, Pink Floyd, Metal Church, Iron Maiden, The Ramones, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Quiet Riot, Aerosmith, Bang Tango, Krokus, Chicago, Damn Yankees, The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Grim Reaper, Asia, Slayer, Crimson Glory, The Anvil Chorus, Dio, Jefferson Starship, REO Speedwagon, Zebra, Collin James Hay, Duran Duran, Skid Row, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, Hall and Oats, Buck Owens, Twisted Sister, Steel Dragon, Heathen, Live, Marilyn Manson, Bad Company, Def Leppard, Blue Oyster Cult, WASP, Dokken, Collective Soul, Green Day, Steelheart, Helloween, LA Guns, Shotgun Messiah, The Ohio Players, Bread, Pantera, Dream Theatre, The Black Crowes, Mike and the Mechanics, Thought Industry, REM, Bullet Boys, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Ted Nugent, Blackfoot, Triumph, The Verve Pipe, Peter Frampton, Charlie Daniels, The Monkees, ELO, The Doors, The Police, Elton John, Third Day... and scores of others I'll think of later...
Sounds Like: Songs:
Teardrops and Clay 2006
Lyrics and Music: J Dobbertin
Performed by J Dobbertin
Washing Picks 2006
Lyrics: A Dobbertin
Music: J Dobbertin
Performed by J Dobbertin
Record Label: BWWWwwwwaaahaHAHAHAaahahaaaahaaaaaa! Yeah, right!
Type of Label: None