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Centaur Rodeo

Tongues of Flame now on iTunes!

About Me

Centaur Rodeo is a Progressive Rock band with an affinity for long songs, odd time signatures, tempo/key/chord changes and technical skill exhibition, all the while maintaining an emotional and melodic strain. In other words, we like it long and hard! The band was formed and is led by Chris Favata, who is also the group's primary composer. All members have contributed significantly nonetheless.

Our first album, Tongues of Flame, IS NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES IN THE U.S., U.K., AND CANADA!

The Epiphany + Jam Live at the University Theatre:

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/23/2007
Band Members: Chris Favata: Drums, Guitars, Auxiliary Percussion, Glockenspiel, Bass, Left Cow

Colin McBride: Guitars, Sound Effects, Bass

Anthony Yue: Guitars, Piano/Keys, Bass

Courtney Waldron: Cello, Auxiliary Percussion, Right Cow

Chalette Whalebert: Harp, Egg Harp, Prophecy, Non-Tuesday-November-20th-Hanger-Outter, Terrible Friend, Band Hater, Poopy-Butt Face, Polaroid Procrastinator, The Sound of the Fury That Resonates in My Mind, The Anger That Provokes My Vengeance on All That's Happened to Me

Influences: A.C.T, Agalloch, Alarm Will Sound, Allan Holdsworth, Andrew Bird, Anekdoten, Anglagard, Animal Collective, The Anniversary, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Area, At the Drive-In, Atreyu, Ayreon, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Bear vs. Shark, The Beatles, Between the Buried and Me, Beyond Twilight, Blink-182, Brand X, Brazil, Broken Social Scene, Camel, Cave In, Centaur Rodeo, Charlie Hunter, Chick Corea, Circa Survive, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, The Cure, Cursive, Dave Matthews Band, Dave Weckl, The Dear Hunter, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Deus ex Machina, Devin Townsend, DEVO, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dismemberment Plan, Do Make Say Think, Don Caballero, Dream Theater, Dredg, Dun, Enchant, Envy, Ephel Duath, Explosions in the Sky, Far Corner, The Fire Theft, The Flaming Lips, The Flower Kings, Focus, Frank Gambale, Frank Zappa, The Gathering, Genesis, Gentle Giant, The Get Up Kids, The Gloria Record, The Go! Team, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gong, Gordian Knot, Green Carnation, Guthrie Govan, Harmonium, Hatfield and the North, Hourglass, IQ, Iron & Wine, Isis, Jethro Tull, Joe Satriani, John Coltrane, John Mclaughlin, John Petrucci, John Williams, Jordan Rudess, Justin King, Kansas, Karate, Katatonia, Kensington, King Crimson, Knapsack, Krakatoa, Kronos Quartet, Lauryn Hill, The Lawrence Arms, Le Orme, Led Zeppelin, Liquid Tension Experiment, Locanda Delle Fate, Magma, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Maneige, Marillion, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, McClurg Family Singers, Meshuggah, Metamorfosi, Miles Davis, Minus the Bear, Miriodor, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mono, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Neal Morse, Nektar, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Amsterdams, Niacin, Nick Drake, Nightwish, Nine Inch Nails, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Opeth, Orphaned Land, Paatos, Pain of Salvation, Pat Metheny, Paul Gilbert, Pedro the Lion, Pelican, PFM, Picchio Dal Pozzo, Pink Floyd, Planet X, Porcupine Tree, The Prodigy, Protest the Hero, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Rachel's, Radiohead, Red Sparowes, R.E.M., Renaissance, The Residents, Return to Forever, Riverside, Robert Wyatt, Roine Stolt, Rush, Russian Circles, RX Bandits, Samla Mammas Manna, Santana, Saves the Day, Shadow Gallery, The Shins, Sigur Ros, A Silver Mt. Zion, Sinkadus, Six Organs of Admittance, Sleep Terror, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Smiths, The Soft Machine, Sparta, Spiral Architect, Solaris, Spock's Beard, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Sunny Day Real Estate, Symphony X, Taal, The Tangent, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, The Snake the Cross the Crown, Therion, Thinking Plague, This Romantic Tragedy, Thrice, Tin Hat Trio, Tony MacAlpine, Tool, Tortoise, Transatlantic, Triana, Underoath, Univers Zero, Van Der Graaf Generator, The Velvet Teen, Verbatym, Weather Report, The Who, Yes, Yngwie Malmsteen.

Jesus, Stephen Colbert, Tony Favata, Bobeque, Ernest Hemingway, Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas Hardy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, Paul, Dante, Alexandre Dumas, V, Natalie Portman, Webster, Jon Stewart, Aesop, George Lucas, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Spartans, Mel Gibson, Ben Stiller, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Nathanial Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens...
Sounds Like: A fusion of the aforementioned. Or a fission.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Major Updates

             As you've undoubtedly noticed already, the band has recently undergone a few changes. The first and most obvious of those is our nam...
Posted by Centaur Rodeo on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:18:00 PST

Recording Complete!

It has been two months and two weeks since we entered the studio, and, with great pleasure I am able to say we have finished the record! The master copy of the album has been in our possession since a...
Posted by Centaur Rodeo on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:46:00 PST

Studio Update 2

We are pleased to be able to say that the music and vocals for the new album are nearly completed. The vocals will be done in a couple of days, and we have one bass track to re-record, and then it's o...
Posted by Centaur Rodeo on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:16:00 PST

Studio Update

Greetings everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I just thought it was about time I posted one of these blogs detailing our progress in the studio...First off, the material sounds great, albeit unpo...
Posted by Centaur Rodeo on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:59:00 PST