Member Since: 03/02/2008
Band Website: youtube.com/user/kazenoakira
Band Members: Charlie Bruin - guitar, vocals, Aztec death whistle
Sarah Clark - keyboard, vocals, guitar
Justin Miller - guitar, vocals
Andrew Powell - drums
Ben Vickers - bass, vocals, lead kazoo (listen closely enough and you'll hear it. You gotta listen real close though, it hardly cuts through the mix. Kazoo is hard to record, we must have spent six hours - that's a lot of money - gettin' that damn kazoo right)
Influences: General: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Sigur Rós, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, P-Funk, BOOOOOTZILLA, The Allman Brothers Band
Charlie: Brian Eno, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Band
Justin: Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Peter Frampton, David Gilmour, Jack White
Ben: Bach, John Coltrane, Shostakovich, Gustav Holst, Charles Mingus, Aphex Twin, Amon Amarth, Ricky Skaggs. My favorite bass players are in no particular order: Brian Ritchie, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Ray Manzarek, Charles Mingus, Tim Commerford, Paul Chambers, Chris Wolstenhome, Victor Wooten, and Jaco.
Andrew: Favorite drummers are Neal Peart, Stewart Copeland, Josh Freese, and Danny Carey; My influences in general are Radiohead, My Morning Jacket, Band Of Horses, Blonde Redhead, Bright Eyes, Darkest Hour, lots of metal and indie.
Sounds Like: Change you can believe in.
Record Label: Unsigned