Member Since: 3/1/2006
Band Website: jamwave.com/rustyhorn
Band Members: I don't really have a band right now, per-se. I'm mostly playing bass and drums these days with the thursday night praisers from my church. It is a connect group that meets at one of the member's house. I'm currently just posting old demos of my songs on this page. Players and singers on some of these older tunes include...
Charlie Judge--Keys and engineering on newer fish n grits stuff---
David Mead--harmonies on Raggedy Ann
---Tommy Williams--drums/percussion and harmonies
--Steve Ebe played drums for us (as the Buzzbees) for a while but we were never lucky enough to capture him on tape--
Randy Perkins (Dignus)--harmonies on "black rag"---
Kurt Carrick--bass, harmonies---
Misty Carrick--harmonies---
---Ric Emrich--organ on merry christmas---
Scott Neubert--lap steel and dobro---
Mike Radovsky--drums---
Brett Bryant--organ
Mike Daly--lap steel, dobro,steel guitar----
That's the lovely Joanna Cotten singing the high harmony on "What would it take", and---
John Wheeler--drums,organ,piano, horribly-out-of-tune fiddle, ice-pick-in-your-forehead-kuntry-guitar on "empty beer can"--engineered some cuts--awesome guru of recording techniques and fearless leader of Hayseed-Dixie. ----Rusty Horn--almost all guitars, lead and harmony vocals, all arrangements, drums/bass on merry christmas, let's blow this joint., Halloween
Influences: I like stuff that's good. Even opera. Even rap. Even friggin' POLKA. I state those first because I must admit to having found very little in those genres that met my standard of "good." I loved the Beatles first, and nobody else has ever pushed them from their perch. I also loved the Monkees, so my taste could be somewhat suspect. I loved the Eagles, the Who, some of Led Zeppelin, some of Yes, some of Alan Holdsworth, some of Frank Zappa, some of AC/DC, and I really enjoy bluegrass. Just about any good bluegrass. I love James Taylor before a certain point--he seems to have lost his writing muse but not his ability to perform. I love sting/the police, ADORE ZZTop, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, hate Yngwie Malmsteen and any and every eddie van halen clone guitarist. Actually used to really love EVH but he has turned out to be a bit of a jerk from what I hear. Love Pat Travers, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore/Deep Purple, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Poco, America, Dan Fogelberg, Jim Croce, Elton John, Boston, Kansas, Some Styx, actually bought the Partridge family album and the Osmond brothers album. Not proud of it, but it happened. I can't change who I am. Really love B.J. Thomas, Russ Taff, The Imperials, Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace, Switchfoot, love good gospel quartets like the Gaithers. The curly haired dude who used to do the tenor part with them is amazing. I seriously dig Starfield and Barlow Girl, and that's about all I can think of for now. My dad sang in barbershop quartets when I was a baby and we still do it when we get together as a family. We stink, but it's fun.
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Record Label: buzzbees records and tapes and smut
Type of Label: Indie