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Rich

Rawk!

About Me

Guitarist, bassist, songwriter, occasional singer, very occasional drummer, vegetarian, animal lover, environmentalist, booze hound, and all round music lover.Gigging around Sydney with various indie bands for the last 9 years. Currently playing guitar in 'The Resistance' and bass with 'Helter', and working on the project 'Cities of The Red Night'.

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Member Since: 3/8/2006
Band Website: peta.org
Band Members: w/ Helter: Ryan Linnegar, Tim Linnegar and Nathan Easey. w/ The Resistance: John James, Leo Kim and Tim Adderley. w/ Cities of The Red Night: Jo Packman and Dan Kell.
Influences: Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, REM, The Beatles, Nick Drake, Art of Fighting, Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Ros. Blue Bottle Kiss, Sarah Blasko, Something For Kate. A Perfect Circle, Porcupine Tree, Faith No More, Tomahawk, Tool, Helmet, The Mark of Cain, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, The Mars Volta, Isis, Pink Floyd, Opeth. Eric Clapton (Bluesbreakers and Cream era), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Eric Johnson, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Duane Allman, Wes Montgomery, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Sounds Like: Folk, Indie, Experimental, Prog, Blues, Rock, Metal, Jazz, Ambient.found this music layout at HOT: FreeLayouts.com :: MyHotComments
Record Label: Yes Please
Type of Label: None

My Blog

blah II

Having just recovered from breaking my hand and starting to get back into it, here's another setback; Matt's leaving Cities to move to Vic. Fark!!!! What a blow, he's the man and the glue in that...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:53:00 PST

blah

it's a weird time for me. i'm not enjoying anything at the moment. i used to play guitar all the time; whenever i had a moment. now the idea of playing has no appeal. haven't touched the guitar in my ...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:39:00 PST

change.....

.....can be both difficult and exciting. the difficult at the moment is the loss of my grandad. i lived with him for a long time and we were very close, i'll miss him, but i know he had a long, ...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 22 May 2007 12:57:00 PST

Photos / Recording PT2

Dan took some sweet photos at the Resistance gig the other day, so I've added them and made a slideshow....rawk! COTRN has finally got a demo too. We've been demoing with my gear (as I always do with ...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:19:00 PST

Recording!!

Helter have recorded/mixed and mastered our new EP! It's called 'Sleeping Through Storms', and we're pretty chuffed (and broke!) with it. One of the songs, 'Lack of Cinema' is now in my jukebox, and m...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:46:00 PST

Whats goin on?

Whats the story Johnny? Thats what i keep asking myself. I'm doin all this music stuff but it's hard to see the bigger picture. Whats my style, and where's it going? I feel like a jack of all trades b...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:35:00 PST

Parting

Nat and I have split up. It's terrible as it's not only my fault, but the passion is still there. Some things fade, or never had much to begin with, but not this. You think by 30 you've got it togethe...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:31:00 PST

god

saw clapton at his 3 shows in sydney last week, and it was amazing! he's been a hero of mine for 15 years now (as long as i've been playing), and to see him in the flesh was something i'll never forge...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:14:00 PST

Rawk

It's been an inspiring few weeks; the suprisingly good Bernard Fanning a couple of weeks ago, Pearl Jam on tuesday, and U2 on saturday. With a humble Helter gig in the middle on thursday! It's great s...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:40:00 PST

30

I'm 30 next week. Farkin hell that came up quick. I thought I'd have done a lot more by now; musically, travelling etc etc. Musically things are goin well tho, so I guess I have to try and promote the...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:24:00 PST