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Mark Deffebach

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About Me

Well now, everyones sings or stomps or claps or beats on things first. Before I started Elementary school, my grandparents lived down the alley and they always welcomed a little boy in to play piano or organ. And there was singing in church. But I oficially started on clarinet, and piano. A guitar was cheaper than a synth so for $100 I got a really crappy one in my early teens. I was already playing other peoples guitars anyway. Did the garage band thing in and after high school. As usual things fell apart at the first signs of success. Partied my way outta college in Austin Texas. Left NEJ, god of tempest, and Bud to deal with the Colombians. Also ran out on John and then larval band Zeitgeist (the Reivers). Got a comunity college music degree, played in the bands Gateway, and Genre, wrote some music, married the wrong person, attempted and dropped outta music college in Arlington. Had a kid. Tried to "be all that you can be" when there was nothing else left to be. Had another kid. Traveled to the other side of the world and stood in North Korea for a few minutes. Discharged, divorced, and Degree'ed, thanks to Uncle Sam. Worked, bought new music gear. Played "dad" every weekend. Started jamming with friends, started going to open jams/ open mics in Big D. Joined some bands. Played some bars, coffee houses, Festivals. Got into handdrums and bluegrass. Became life long student of music. Expanded collection of musical intruments. Found Myspace.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/28/2005
Band Website: youtube.com/watch?v=wxfd05vog10
Band Members: Rotten Apple Trio (Dallas Chapter of Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang)Mark Deffebach, Guitars and Vocals Darrin Kobetich, Dobro and Mandoline (bass vocal) Erich Schriefer, UprightbassWE ARE NOW THE BLACKLAND RIVER DEVILS www.myspace.com/blacklandriverdevilsMark Deffebach, Guitar, Vocals, Mandolin, Fiddle, Vocals, Jaw Harps?? Darrin Kobetich, Guitar, Dobro, Mandoline, Banjo? Erich Schriefer, Uprightbass Andrew Bond, Fiddle, Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, Banjo, ???
Influences: Grandmother Deffebach and her piano, Gospel and old German church hymns, KLIF AM radio in Dallas from late 60s thru early 70's, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Christmas Albums, playing with dad's coranet, Bach, Mrs Clarke-Piano Lessons, Jr High Band, High School Jazz band, Clarinet Lesons, Music from Warner bro's cartoons, Music from dads easy listening station in the late 60s and early 70s, Music from truck stops on family vacations, Henry Mancini, John Denver, Music from nature films, Music from old black and white movies, Theme songs to Leave it to Beaver, Munsters, Adams Family, Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, I Dream of Jeanie, Lost in Space, Maxwell Smart, Parry Mason, Flint Stones, Jetsons. Mark Steadman, early Kansas, early Styx, John Croslin, Jethro Tull, Yes, Mark Gunn, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jeff Basa, Rush, Triumph, Scot Gordon, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Kyle Foster, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Cars, Police, The Jam, Dan Hodan, Criss Derose, Steve Morse, Johnny Gonzales, Ynwe Malmsteen, Russ Benzamine, Kirby Stewart, Roger Dizmore, Steve Owens, Jazz, KNTU radio, Texas Blues, Chicagon Blues, Delta Blues, Piedmont Blues, KNON radio, Tovy Haris, Medeski Martin & Wood, Steve Bartoski, Lee Tombulian, Steve Moles, The (Funky) Meters, Phish, Jazz in Dead, Frog Wings, Grateful Dead, Darin Kobetich, Middle Eastern, Hamsa El Din, Indian, Ravi Shankar, Yamousa Camara, Alason Sarr, West African drum n dance, Adam Kobetich, Bluegrass, Western Swing, Mountain Music, Roots, Folk, Ethnic, Pimative, Fusion, Whatever I listen to. Whatever people play for me. Whatever I hear. Bird songs, PEOPLE I MEET.... Influence me, if you think you CAN, or that I NEED it...
Sounds Like: Me, playing my instruments
Record Label: Music Research Den
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W.

Congressman Kucinich has laid out an extensive indictment of the president. Here is the index of article titles: Article ICreating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Agai...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:24:00 PST

Rowing the boat

Looks like I'm gonna be rowing a boat for a while.  About 6 months.  Maybe if I manage to land this boat in a safe harbor they'll give me my own ship, or atleast a license to row.  ...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:01:00 PST

Sinking Ship

So you look up and notice that your ship is sinking.  You used to care more about it but then time went by and you became comfortable with your place on the ship.  Well, really you lived do...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:29:00 PST

Crush Alert. You have X crushes...

Okay, so who has followed the crush alert banner and volunteered thier cell phone number just to recieve this promissed alert?  If you did this, did you start getting a bunch of telemarketing ca...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:32:00 PST

Return of Passion (Flowers)

I used to have this awsome passion flower vine on the fence beside my house.  I never did a thing to it and yet year after year it came back, complete with the orange catapilars with black prickl...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:32:00 PST

Neon Skimmer... the brightest red bug I ever saw.

Red Dragon Fly is how I serched for it on the web to find out what it was. This particular red skimmer perches on this particular stick every day.  You can get him used to you and practially reac...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:08:00 PST

Three Rotten Apples from the Electric Mountain

You are listening to some rough mixes of Darrin (mando/dobro), Erich (doghouse bass) and me (guitar/fiddle/vocals) whippin a few tunes out as a trio up here in the DFW area.  Many thank...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:38:00 PST

reKERRverry

Okay, I cleaned out my yahoo and myspace email/messages (mostly).  I got sidetracked sending a few replies, etc. I should probably write about this years Kerrville... I recieved important re...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:41:00 PST

2007 rant

Yeah so its been a long time since I added anything here...     Hummmmm,  its 28 days into the new year.  I find myself in three bands: Damon Carroll Band, Electric Mount...
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:25:00 PST

Kerrville over, Life continues.

Back from Kerrville,  it was a blast.  Now burried in this mess I call home.  Gotta throw some of the shit out so I can be productive.
Posted by Mark Deffebach on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:10:00 PST