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Ken Robarge

About Me

I've been singing ever since I can remember; playing keyboards since third grade; started playing guitar a few years back.Early influences: Beach Boys, Motown artists, Booker T and the MGs, the Yardbirds, Martha & the Vandellas; Three Dog Night, the Doors, ad infinitum...Interests du jour: Thrash Metal ~ IDM ~ Ambient/Trance ~ Looping ~ The Funk ~ Whatever moves me or makes me movePrisonerAlert.com ..
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Member Since: 30/07/2007
Band Website: Yer lookin' at it. Oh..........dot com.
Band Members: Me and a bunch o' gear.
Influences: Not to say I sound like any of 'em, but they definitely inspire me on a daily basis:Jeff Beck ~ James Brown ~ Eric Johnson ~ Bill Nelson ~ Wondermints ~ Art Tatum ~ Allan Holdsworth ~ Junior Walker ~ Aretha Franklin ~ David Torn ~ Marion McPartland ~ Brian Wilson ~ Tony Banks ~ Andre LaFosse ~ Bud Powell ~ Dave Mustaine ~ Ramsey Lewis ~ John Petrucci ~ Walter Becker & Donald Fagen ~ Martha Reeves ~ Lenny Breau ~ Herbie Hancock ~ Richard Wagner ~ Ella Fitzgerald ~ The Carter Family ~ Mark Tremonti ~ Duke Ellington ~ Dave Brubeck ~ Gladys Knight ~ Billy F. Gibbons ~ Miles Davis ~ Booker T. Jones ~ Robin Trower ~ John Coltrane ~ Johnny Cash ~ Sly Stone ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~ Bill Evans ~ Howlin' Wolf ~ Charlie Parker ~ Fats Waller ~ Louis Armstrong ~ my dad, Hank Robarge ~ not necessarily in that order....
Sounds Like: I really hate these "Sounds like The DeFranco Family meets Porcupine Tree, on steroids" kind of lame comparisons. If I sound like somebody, you tell me...
Record Label: Unsigned

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Why This? Why Today?

I dunno, just feel like reaching out sometimes, maybe just the herd mentality ("everybody else seems to be doing it"). Perhaps it's ego (what isn't?!). Maybe I think I have something worth sharing. ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:45:00 GMT