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TeleBob

Have Tele, Will Twang... Got Twang?

About Me


*** Birthday: May 12 (Taurus) ***
*** Instruments: guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele, keyboards, dulcimer, lap steel, kazoo, harmonica, washboard and electric frying pan. ***
*** Published and recorded songwriter, writer/publisher member of BMI and NCB (NorDisk Copyright Bureau - Denmark), member of Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), SongU.com student and counselor, Ambassador of SongwriterForums.com, former member of Songwriters Association of Washington (SAW), Country Music Association (CMA) and Academy of Country Music (ACM) ***
*** Former member of The Bodine Brothers Band (1986-1996, 2005-2006), also performed with Cindy Astlin and Runaway Train, Swingin' West, the Kraze, and the Old Flames ***
*** For additional bio extras and more songs, check out my other websites: www.songwriterforums.com/telebob and www.songu.com/members/bobc *** I am also on SongRamp.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/16/2006
Band Website: songu.com/members/bobc
Band Members: Billy Bob Bodine (alter super-ego)
Influences: My Musical Influences and Favorites (in no particular order): the Beatles, Waylon Jennings, Roy Buchanan, Dale Watson, Emmylou Harris, Koa 'Uka, the Hellecasters, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams (Sr. and Jr.), ZZ Top, Tom Petty and Weezer... and Johnny Cash, Jimmy Buffett, Chris Knight, Steve Earle, Buck Owens, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Jesse Colin Young, Albert King, Beausoleil, Allman Brothers, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Pinmonkey, the Bellamy Brothers, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Seldom Scene, David Allan Coe, Johnson Mountain Boys, Audioslave, Stevie Ray Vaughn and my ultimate guilty pleasure: KC and the Sunshine Band.
Sounds Like: Waylon Jennings meets Neil Young meets Tom Petty meets Mick Jagger, with a side of Jimmy Reed and Buck Owens... and a dash of Roy Buchanan
Record Label: SmashtSound Records, Pear Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Cinquains for the Membrane

A few cinquains previously composed. These will be in my poetry and prose book when I get around to publishing it... sometime this year?   Cinquain In Poetry Twenty-two syllables Within five lin...
Posted by TeleBob on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:53:00 PST

Spicemania is back again!

Wow... SpiceMania is back! The Spice Girls have actually patched things up for a quickie World Tour. Even Ginger has rejoined my favorite non-band of singing femmes for another round of Spice. Here'...
Posted by TeleBob on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:20:00 PST

Two Poems Inspired by Playboy Magazine

Here are 2 poems I wrote over the weekend, both based on the August issue of Playboy magazine. The first one is about Miss August, who's name is Tamara Sky. The second poem is about a drive-up coffee ...
Posted by TeleBob on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:47:00 PST

damn... it's 07-07-07

ha... two things i never discuss: religion and philosophy, also politics. anyway, today is 07-07-07. i just wanted to mark the day. as far as 7's go... i guess a lot of folks will head to the casinos ...
Posted by TeleBob on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:43:00 PST

shake up in the top friends list... (again)

hope y'all don't get too dizzy lookin' at my top friends list. this time i decided to place some of the animated 'slide show' pix on top. i do enjoy quite a few of these folks (musically and otherwise...
Posted by TeleBob on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:19:00 PST

Shag!

here is a new poem (prose) i completed this afternoon... as some folks know, i just returned from myrtle beach. the official state dance of south carolina is the shag, so here is my ode to the shag: ...
Posted by TeleBob on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:40:00 PST

Poetry

I was always fascinated by words, even before I got into songwriting. While working the night shift (6 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.), I used to cobble my own verbiage into poetry and prose. During high school, I...
Posted by TeleBob on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:18:00 PST

Friends...

I just deleted non-existing MySpace friends and my total count went down from 933 to 907. Dang! I didn't realize how many temporary MySpace folks were in my 'domain'. Then I read where CoCo once had 5...
Posted by TeleBob on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:28:00 PST

de Blooze (new songs)

hey folks... I finally upgraded my i'net connection at home from dial-up to DSL. geez, what a difference! ya think someone who's worked in the IT industry would be more up to date... to tell ya the tr...
Posted by TeleBob on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:33:00 PST

New songs coming soon....

I've gotten back into a songwriting mode again. I completed 2 new songs this week. One with my longtime collaborator Julie and one with a regular co-writer (lyricist) Tom. I even recorded home demos o...
Posted by TeleBob on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:00:00 PST