Music:
Member Since: 3/24/2006
Band Website: ruffbong.com
Band Members: Jahn and Kat, and a whole house of animals: Salt H2o fish, Sugar Gliders (2- a dad and his daughter), our 2 cats (sisters) and 2 pit bulls, Freedom and Jazmin. Oh and alot of MASSIVE aloe plants.
Influences: BIG UP!!!!: MAXIMUM RESPECT TO: (AAE)Awareness Art Ensemble, Bob Marley, The Wailers, Aston Family Man, Drummie Zeb, Ojulibah Hunter, Ras Melvin Glover, Garnett Silk, The Itals, Ras Shiloh, Bunny Wailer, Lymie Murray, Peter Tosh, Beres Hammond, Ghetto Youths and the Marley family, UB40, English Beat, Elan Atias, Black Uhuru, Jacob Miller, Junior Reid, SOJA, Third World, Capleton, Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Santa Davis, Freddie McGregor, Dennis Browne, Messenjah, Albert Griffiths and the Gladiators, Midnite, Yellowman, Wayne Wonder, Gyptian, Wailing Souls, Mykal Roze, Rupee, Gentleman, Steel Pulse, Big Mountain, Gondwana, Alpha Blondy, Malino, Culcha Candela, Rupee, Sizzla, Morgan Heritage, LMS, Terry Linen, Luciano, .... Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, The Commodores, Raul Midon, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, .... Duran Duran, The Sundyas, Paul Rodgers, Free and Bad Company, Midnight Oil, Van Halen and The Cure....but I am a deadhead too at heart, former thrasher as well, grew up on Hank Williams and the Beatles from my father's side, and The Commodores and Earth Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson and Fabian from my mother's side..... just to mention a few.
Just click here, and click on pics, ...for free listens at our original conscious music creations!
Or visit the Ruff Bong conscious artists Page and GUESTBOOK (at the bottom of page there), ...to see a few of our previous projects, and SAY "HI!", we love to see your thoughts if you have a second!!
Check out our page over at..., ...a net super collection of sites and things we are fond of!
OR feel free to pay a visit to, and check out the home of J&K weekdays, ...J&K's MOBILE MUNCHIES curbside cafe... (click here)
Slip on by OUR PAGE, our home on the net, and who hosts our tunes, SONY's ...check out the videos and music to be reviewed for free!
All of our songs are now available for a limited time as 100% FREE: ...as simply as making a FREE membership at ACIDplanet.com, and hitting the download on our tracks' arrows.
This is our links page: ...a few of our own personal fave performers and artists!
RuffBong videos: ...and a few faves from all over the net!!!
Sounds Like: Reggae in our own sort of stylee. I create a riddim- an instrumental, on which lyrics are dropped, which are written for the groove, which must first be capable of standing on it's own. We like for them to be conscious: for me that means from the heart and written to benefit the mind and body. I drop the riddim as well... whether or not lyrics are ready to get down on the tune.And this helps Kat and I to become more familiar with the presence of the melodies and such, and listeners, too. I try to reach out with ambience, which is different with reggae for the most part, and am not afraid to go where it does not tend to go, and try out different beats that are not traditionally, let's say, a one-drop or pop-reggae style. Sometimes it is more crossover.Kat and I both have alot of band and acoustic experience. I have done alot of production for friends and sound engineer work. Some songs here we created with the help of some close friends... Tasso from Hollywood, and the Jahlifta. Now we do our own thing.... so newer stuff you can hear on our website, on the BongSongs page, are mostly all driven by me, from beat and strings thru mastering.Fight Spam! Click Here!
Record Label: none but we name for now.
Type of Label: None
