Member Since: 3/2/2008
Band Members: Scott Rath-All sorts of guitars/S. Rath-songs/ J. Scott Rath-pretend bass and vocals J.S. Rath-Pedal Steel, Lap Steel and Dobro, Seth Pappas-sometimes real great drumming on certain lucky songs
and Ju Ju the Cat-inspiration
Influences: Wow, influences..... where do I start, Ray Davies, Rory Gallagher, Gram Parsons (into him at the beginning, way before all the other Grampires) Duane Allman, Jeff Beck, Warren Zevon, Gary Moore, Paul Kossoff (oh that vibrato) Free, Dave Davies, The Rolling Stones (Brian and Mick era, sorry Ronnie) Merle Haggard, Jackson Browne, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Jimmy Page, Steve Earle, All the Great West Coast Pedal Steel Guitar Players, David Lyndley, Zorro, Seth Pappas, D.B. Faulkner, Ronnie Van Zandt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Leslie West, Bruce Springsteen Jimi Hendrix, Warren Haynes,The Kinks,The Yardbyrds, The Birds, Did I say the Kinks? Ry Cooder, Hughie Thomasson, Al Perkins, Sneaky Pete, Early Elton John, The Faces, Ronnie Wood (the Faces era) Ronnie Lane, Jim Morrison, The Doors, Lowell George, Otis Redding, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Janis Joplin, Albert Lee, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Led Zepplin. And of course Dylan.
Sounds Like: Well that depndeds on what genre I am playing in. I like to think my guitar playing comes from the blues with added chromatic scales and a slight bit of basic rawness. I learned from the the English guys and especially Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore and Jeff Beck.
Throw that in with a voice that sometimes sounds like Paul Rodgers or Don Henley on a really bad night (wishful thinking) or maybe one that can best be described as sometimes pitch challenged, and songs influenced by Ray Davies and Warren Zevon and throw a little country rock flavor in there and maybe you have an idea.
I think I will name my style of music RAGUM. There I invented a genre.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None