Member Since: 8/19/2005
Band Website: http://www.echobeachband.com
Band Members: Brian Andres: drumset and percussion.
Justin Hellman: upright and electric bass.
Blair Helsing: vibraphone, marimbas, percussion and electronics.
John LoGiudici, acoustic and electric guitars.
Influences: Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Badly Drawn Boy, Camel, 10cc, XTC, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Trilok Gurtu, George Harrison, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays & all editions of PMG, Tito Puente, Ry Cooder, Gregg Plummer, David Lindley, Gary Burton, Evelyn Glennie, Nancy Zeltsman, Steven Schick, Elvis Costello, Zakir Hussain, Steve Swallow, Terje Rypdal, Jack DeJohnette, Frank Zappa, Airto Moreira, Jose Neto, Tim Buckley, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Iain Matthews, June Tabor, Ashley Hutchings, John Martyn, early Traffic, Cal Tjader, the collaborations of Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Dizzy Gillespie, Chico O'Farrill, West Coast jazz, Arthur Lee and Love, Television and the solo work of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, John Bergamo, Michael Shrieve, Spirit, great radio and DJs, all editions of Steps Ahead, Stewart Copeland, and countless more musicians past and present.
Sounds Like: A joyful noise. Buy our CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/echobeach
Record Label: Ratchets of Rialb (tm)
Type of Label: Indie