Music:
Member Since: 4/17/2007
Band Website: roughcuts.com
Band Members:
Introducing the fabulous all star Roughcuts (in order of appearance)
Diamond Simon
Guitar, Vocals, Songs, Grunt work
:
Morgan Witthoft
Sax, Vocals, Section Arrangements
:
Robert 'Quarter Moon' Ortiz
Trumpet, Vocals
Tom Hubert
Bass, Vocals
Steve Royal
Drums, Vocals
Also featuring special guest stars (as often as possible):
Dawn Maracle
Keys, Guitar, Bass, Vocals
John Christian
Bass
Steve Manning
Sax, Vocals
Parker Townsend:
Drums
Joe Bliskey:
Percussion
Jose Ruiz
Harp
Walt "Sax" Stike:
Sax
Dave Leibson
Bass, Standup
Eddie Painter:
Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Hey its also worth noting that John, Dawn, Steve, Parker and Eddie are all band leaders in their own right!
       
Influences:
Diamond Simon and the Roughcuts, Peter Green, Eric
Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wilson Pickett, B. B. King, Robert Johnson, Ronnie Earl,
Albert King, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Delbert McClinton, Box O’ Laffs,
Frank Zappa, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Big Thomas 'Master
Blaster' Alexander, lots of others.
Texas Gallery
Texas sunset on the Guadalupe river.
Galveston Island
Cactus Flower ....by Cori
Texas Folk Dancer
Texas Mission San - Antonio
Texas Hill Country Snow
Texas Gulf Blues
Texas Beach Dunes
Texas Hill Country Nights
More to Follow
Sounds Like:
A little bit of
Blues, a little bit of
Jazz, and a little bit of
Rock-n-Roll, with love from Austin Texas.
Memorial
.... to the memory of 'Big' Thomas Alexander, leader of 'The Alexanders', fore runner to The Roughcuts. Loving family man, accomplished drummer and Blues mentor, Big Thomas is credited with 'Diamond' Simon's nickname, a gift which out lasted his brief stay here, but lives on in the Bluesand in our memories. Rest in peace!
Diamond Simon's Soapbox
Stepping up to the soapbox, without necessarily being being political, but rather in defence of core humanitarian values, we must speak out against the tendency of power to corrupt absolutely!So heres to
Public Enemy 1 ... may he get just rewards ... just what on earth he was thinking when he set the wheels of genocide in motion?
Violence and destruction are raging in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Since February 2003,
government-sponsored Janjaweed militias have conducted a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, starvation and displacement in Darfur resulting in
400,000 people dead and more than 2.5 million displaced from their homes. Many fled to camps which lack adequate food, shelter, sanitation, and health care. Congress recognized the situation in Darfur as "genocide." Darfur is
"near Hell on Earth," and has been declared the
worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.
From: savedarfur.org
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None
