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2001 is Cab Driver’s founding year. Thomas “Sky” Jones and Denis Ronta found themselves suddenly ending up on the street: They had dropped out of their previous band, a Croatian rock band, and now were desperately looking for new musical challenges. It is a little bizarre that of all people some hip-hop-buddies introduced them to rock guitarist Johnny Weber. After first sessions the project Cab Driver was born: Johnny Weber on the guitar, Thomas “Sky” Jones on the bass and Denis Ronta on the drums.
After the lead singer’s role had changed a couple of times during their first years, Reno Rock joined the three. Reno, who studied sound engineering, first played the second guitar. Since 2005 he is also the band’s lead singer. Apart from that, Reno is Cab Driver’s producer and manager.
After the 2006 gigs the four boys took off and went to their self-made but highly professional studio to fully concentrate on the work on their first own album. Now you can finally get the reward of many long winter nights at your record shop: “Don’t stop” is a dyed in the wool rock album with hard licks but sentimental and melancholic elements as well. Apart from a funky cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Anybody seen my baby” every song is handmade by Cab Driver.

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Member Since: 20/07/2007
Band Website: www.cab-driver.de
Band Members:

RENO ROCK

Instrument: Vocals & guitar
Birthday: March 6
Birthplace: Boeblingen, Germany

Reno is Cab Driver’s all-rounder: The 23 years old joined the others as a second guitarist in late 2003 before he took over the lead singer’s role in 2005. Reno, who is a sound engineer, also produced Cab Driver’s first album “Don’t Stop”. Besides, Reno is responsible for many of the lyrics plus he is the band’s manager. His present band mates introduced the Bon Jovi fan to making rock music on one’s own. At highschool Reno mainly listened to Hip-Hop, until Cab Driver’s drummer Denis gave him “Reload” by Metallica at some point. Reno thought: “Wow, so that’s rock music.” He promptly took his first guitar lesson. Guess who was his teacher: Johnny Weber, now Cab Driver’s lead guitarist. Reno’s favourite on “Don’t stop” is “Coming home”.

JOHNNY WEBER

Instrument: Guitar
Birthday: October 25
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

Johnny Weber always thought that he is hopelessly earless. Until he turned twelve years old: He touched a rock guitar for the first time and promptly declared music as the number-one-priority in his life. For 18 month he took a private teacher to get his raw riffs formed, and then he continued alone like obsessed. While his class mates went out for pubcrawls or hung around on the dance floor, Johnny preferred to practise. “Back then”, he says laughing, “I was a real homebody.” Well, it paid off: As lead guitarist Johnny plays today the rhythm that it gives you the creeps at Cab Driver’s live shows. When he is not working on his own songs, Johnny devotes himself to classical guitar rock: Cream and Led Zeppelin are his favourites. He likes one of the guitar dominated songs most on “Don’t stop”: “Everything could change”.

THOMAS "SKY" JONES

Instrument: Bass & vocals
Birthday: October 8
Birthplace: Boeblingen, Germany

Thomas is a musical career changer: The 28 years old played the contrabass for eleven years until he finally got down to business and changed his passion to harder sounds. As a young boy he was already on stage – together with his old friend Denis Ronta and a rock band from Croatia. For Thomas the bee’s knees are Cab Driver’s live gigs: “That’s the reason why I make music at all. It’s an incredible feeling playing up on stage together with the other boys. Those are my best moments.” Although Thomas is mainly inspired by Flea, the legendary bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, his darling among the songs on “Don’t stop” is “Where are we now?”, which reminds one of U2.

DENIS RONTA

Instrument: Drums
Birthday: November 3
Birthplace: Boeblingen, Germany


Denis Ronta is a musical self-made-man: One day as a boy of 16 years he discovered those forgotten drums in the music room of his old school. Spontaneously he took the sticks and just started to play. Now he is 28 years old and carries best rock rhythms for Cab Driver – however he has seen music schools only from the outside and is not able to read a single note. Denis made his first band experiences in a Croatian rock band where he got to know bass guitarist Thomas “Sky” Jones. Together with him and his buddy Johnny Weber the Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple fan founded Cab Driver. Among the songs on “Don’t Stop” Denis likes “Gasoline” most.
Record Label: Unsigned

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An Interview with Cab Driver  by Christian Förster

Monotony is deadly" An Interview with Cab Driver  by Christian Förster Your first album "Don't stop" is out now. What can the listeners expect? Reno Rock: First of all they can expect manifold m...
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