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Gentle Ben

About Me


Download some songs from Gentle Ben's Latest Release by visiting Purevolume.
It all started with Greg who learned bass and convinced me, Chris, not only to learn guitar but to eventually sing as well. Together we formed a band known as Teddy RuXpin and had no full time drummer but still recorded sixteen someodd songs and played four or five shows.
Andrew joined the group in 2001. His influence was heard in our music immediately and it was only right that the band's next album would have to be under another name since the music had changed so much. The name we came up with was Gentle Ben.
Anyways, Greg left the band in the summer of 2005 to persue a career off in San Diego. This was after just one visit to the Red Room in Staten Island. Andrew and I had decided to finish what the three of us had started. Over a year and a half later Gentle Ben's first full length has become available. "Freash Jam on Yesterday's Bagels" has sold over 60 copies to date. Do you have one?
During the last half of 2006, Gentle Ben has been privleged enough to have Steven Ringwald and Tad Fabioschi join up as perminent members and really fill out the band. While the most recent full length was written before they began there fresh style and new sound can be heard at any of our live shows - especially in the songs that have been written after the album's release.
Recently Tad decided to leave the band. We still remain good friends, and he lends his support as the band plays on. With new bassist Keith "Beau" Fennelly, the Rocksweat Quartet is back on the bill with many shows going on as 2007 comes to a close.We play shows with various local talent all around the Tri Sate Area. Check this page constantly for updates on new shows, start times, prices, opening acts, age restrictions (we aim to have only all ages shows but this is not always possible) and all other stuff performance related.
Enjoy our live shows and recorded music do you??? Well, buy a T-Shirt and show the world what you listen to. Available in either green or red, our T-shirt looks like this:
Contact us if you're interested, and we'll make sure you get one!
NOTICE: Currently only available in L or XL. Sorry slim!
CONTACT:
[email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/14/2005
Influences: Andrew inspires me and I in turn discourage him. I'm just that kinda guy.
-Chris

Chris' biggest fan is Chris, and I in turn write crappy songs.
-Andrew

Bands Gentle Ben loves: 311, NOFX, MxPx, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Happy Anarchy, Blanco Nino, System of a Down, Incubus, Foo Fighters, Tenacious D, Coheed & Cambria, Bad Religon (recently got into them), and of course ANYTHING by the Beatles.

Some Stuff Drew Likes that Chris hates: John Mayer, Zack Hexum, Blink 182.

Some Stuff Chris lisens to that NO ONE should - Jack Johnson, Mindless Self Indulgence, The Sounds, The Smiths, Pepper.

Sounds Like: Bodyguards for Warped Tour stars protect you from those kids with braces!!
-LTJ

Too lazy to hit play on our MP3 player but not too lazy to scroll down and read this? May, you should probably re-evaluate your priorities. I mean, we took off auto play because it was obnoxious to have a song just thrown at you the 5 seconds you are on the main page. These days everyone has a song on their profile. Sucks.
Greg would not like this if he were here...

Greg - Living it up on the Left Coast

Record Label: Ringbusack Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

This looks a lot like facebook

ya know, I was always annoyed by these weird updates that started popping up on myspizzle. Like, why do i need to know every time someone puts up a new photo? I kinda like the old way, you only know w...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:06:00 GMT

So it IS on after all

Hey, 2 comments and even a blog inspired blog. I guess some people are still reading. Although I think Panda's blog is the result of that nervous pressure feeling we all get at this age when we are un...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Is this thing on at all?

Seems to me that myspace went the way of the Buffalo a long time ago and i completely understand, or do I? you see, I too enjoyed myspizzle quite a bit back during the boom but eventually slowly over ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:09:00 GMT

Resident Evil Parody

Ok, so being a big big Resident Evil fan and somewhat of an internet nerd, I have watched a lot of RE parody videos over the years. Most of them are lame with very bad acting and kids that look like t...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:57:00 GMT

GOD DAMN!!!!!!!!!! I love this town!!!!!!

I'm not even sure this is real - havent looked into that part yet. But wow, I dont know what else to say. Wow
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:26:00 GMT

I cant stop watching

Ok, time for a 3 course meal. First an appatizer Here is one of my (Chris') very favs and no Trevor Moore And I dont know if this one is Drew's fav but he laughed pretty hard for thi...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:25:00 GMT

Do animals read the bible?


Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Saggy Sammy

 This is my new fav show and I have never actually seen an episode. I dont know if you will like it - but a select few of you will LOVE it and hence the term "cult classic." Make sure you watch it to ...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:13:00 GMT

Nothing that I’m Proud of

The abortion that you had it left you clinically dead, and made it all that much easier to lie But it's nothing that I'm proud of I'm making an example out of you
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:43:00 GMT

Tomorrow’s Show

Gentle Ben will be performing at Otto's tomorrow night 'unplugged.' We start at 8PM and I PROMISE 8PM is the REAL start time. If you show up at 8:45 we will be finished. This is to say we are doing so...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:20:00 GMT