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The Forest Brothers

Ginger is armed to the teeth

About Me

My first taste of playing music came in the form of banging on a steel piccolo drum with my brother, and a friend in various train stations throughout southern germany for spare change. We used the money to purchase the eight track recorder that is now my only source of entertainment

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/4/2008
Band Members: Me: Guitar(Acoustic,Electric,Bass), Lap Steel, Ukulele, Mandolin, Banjo, Accordion, Bulbal Tarang, Piano, Lowrey Organ, Glockenspiel, Oud, Autoharp, Percussion (Congas,Bodhran, Darbuka, Shakere etc..)
Influences: Andrew Bird, Townes Van Zandt, Talking Heads, The Cure, Daniel Johnston, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jens Lekman, Beirut, Tuvan Throat Singing, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Peter Saerstedt, The Kinks, Nico, Warren Zevon, The Violent Femmes, Velvet Underground, Goran Bregovic, The Shins, Bob Dylan, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Phil Ochs, St. Vincent... Europe (The Continent)
Sounds Like: One person trying (in vain) to create music with thrift store organs, 20 dollar guitars, and sticky-keyed accordions.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Its hard to make things sound good on a 8-track

It is hard to make music sound good on an 8-track(all my songs are rough drafts) Mic'ing a Bodhran...... difficult, a full drumset with one mic..... terrifying, the clicking sound of accordion keys is...
Posted by The Forest Brothers on Tue, 27 May 2008 04:01:00 PST