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vijoy rao & the removers

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About Me

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I hope you all are well. Things on this end are pretty good. I'm playing a bunch of solo shows this month and will be taking April off. We'll be back in full form in May starting off with a tasty little full band show at a great STL venue called Off Broadway. We've all played there in other projects but this will be the first time this band has played there together. Should be a good night.
I'm looking to cut another CD this summer...but I am not sure about details just yet. It will most likely be an EP of sorts...which is the cool way to say that it will have 4 or 5 tunes on it. New tunes...so that might be fun. I am not sure if it will be a band thing or a solo thing or maybe a little o dis and a little o dat, but we shall see. More on that soon...
'Til then, both my CDs are now available at CD Baby and on Apple iTunes so go ahead and pick them up. Please see link buttons to the left.
I hope to see you at a show soon.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/13/2006
Band Members: SOLO: me (guitar), myself (vocals), and i (harmonica).

BAND: rachel brandt (vox/keys), eric powell (guitar), dave brickey (bass/vox), and chris keale (drums).

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Acoustic and Live at The 10 Mile House

Full band studio CD

Influences: in no particular order: ben harper & the innocent criminals, donavon frankenreiter, jack johnson, ray lamontagne, bob schneider, the samples, g. love & the special sauce, phish, allman brothers, warren haynes, paul simon, the police, guster, dispatch, rusted root, grateful dead, rhett miller, jason mraz, damien rice, old 97s, jackopierce, soul coughing, BNL, indigo girls, galactic, kdtu, gavin degraw, maceo parker, bob dylan, blues traveler, jeffrey gaines, stevie wonder, dmb, john scofield, joe cocker, mmw, freddy jones band, the beatles, robert randolph & the family band, los lonely boys, ben folds, widespread panic, eric clapton, led zeppelin, umphrey's mcgee, trey anastasio, sublime, blind melon, maroon 5, howie day, u2, bela fleck and the flecktones, bob marley, david gray, boston in the fall, cheap beer on a hot day, the smell of rain, cheddar cheese, van gogh, being in a city for the first time, star wars, budweiser, superman, 44 linden street, etc...
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My Blog

2007

yeah...so how 'bout that 2007, eh?  kind of flew by but lots happened so that's cool.  me...i got engaged to a woman i don't deserve and that rules.  recorded and released a CD which wa...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:00:00 PST

places ive performed solo shows

Cicero's (STL, MO)10 Mile House (Affton, MO)Venice Cafe (STL, MO)The Duck Room @ Blueberry Hill (STL, MO)Lucas School House - Music Hall (STL, MO)Lil Peep's (Collinsville, IL) The Red Sea (STL, MO)Top...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:28:00 PST

thoughts on the new record

hey all-so in the case that someone reads this...here goes. among the current trend of releasing songs...our goal with the release of 'gravity' was to release a record.  a good ol' record......
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:50:00 PST

SOLD OUT blueberry hill's duck room

i just wanted to thank all of you that came to my last-minute show at the duck room in blueberry hill on friday the 16th.  wow.  carbon leaf rocked as usual and the place was SOLD OUT. ...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:41:00 PST

LIVE VIDEO FOOTAGE

Hey everyone-Thanks to my buddy Josh, I now have some live video footage from my show at The 10 Mile House on January 13, 2007.  Click on the "Videos" link below the home page pic to watch it.&n...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:06:00 PST

Booking/Contact information

I appreciate your interest.  If you want to contact me to discuss a booking opportunity and you aren't on MySpace, please e-mail me at: [email protected] and I'll either call or e-mail you b...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:14:00 PST

MY BIO

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Vijoy Rao has been creating music ever since a very young age.  When he was only 7, and while his classmates were listening to Pac-Man Fever, Vijoy was lis...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:06:00 PST

PT tracks are up...

www.myspace.com/plumtucker yup...even though we are closing out our show schedule for good this summer, we have posted two new songs on the page.  "be the one" and "$2 shoes."  please go t...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:51:00 PST

in the meantime...

look mom, i'm blogging. well, there you have it.  i'm going solo.  i've made plans to get in the studio later this summer and tracks these songs that have been floating around in my head for...
Posted by vijoy rao & the removers on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:50:00 PST