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Roof Rabbit

About Me

Roof Rabbit combines aspects of punk , blue grass, and indie to create a new style of music with a sound that instigates a foot-stomping, hand-clapping dance craze, often associated with fit's of hollerin'.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/07/2006
Band Members:
Jason McGee
banjo
vocals

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Mike Grossman
bass/sounds

Matt Forehand
mandolin/lapsteel
vocals

Phil McGlynn
fiddle

Brian McLeod
drums
Influences: Roscoe Holcomb
George Pegram
Bascomb Lamar Lunsford
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Bob Dylan
Woody Guithery
Pete Seeger
Hank Williams
Johnny Cash
Barry Black
The White Hassle
Archers of Loaf
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Music Tapes
Tortoise
Crass
Gang of Four
Die Monitr Batzz
Marnie Stern
The Ramones
Les Savy Fav
The Avett Brothers
Old Crow Medicine Show
Sunny Day Real Estate
Faust
Flat and Scruggs
Jerry Douglas
Doc Watson
Old and in the Way
Fleet Foxes
Sounds Like:
Record Label: w 6
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

We have a new myspace url

Since www.myspace.com/roofrabit was getting a little tiresome to explain to everyone we decided to go with a much more simplier www.myspace.com/roofrabbitband . I don't know why we never did this to s...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:00 GMT

Fame Recording Studio pictures!!!

Jason and his banjo!!Jason's ampsMatt and his lapsteel!!!Matt's ampMike taking a break.Mike's amp with Mike playing bass in the background!!Phil playing his fiddle!!Phil's double stack p.a. (we call i...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:45:00 GMT

recording @ fame!

We just pulled up to fame recording studios in Florence, AL and everyone is excited about recording this weekend! More updates with us on the way!........................................................ .
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:50:00 GMT

news for 2009

First off we wanted to say that we have a new fiddler in the band. His name is Phil McGlynn and we're proud to have him play with us. Here is a link to a myspace page with some footage of him playing ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:37:00 GMT

Monkey House (Indianapolis, IN)

On the way out of Lafayette we stopped on the side of the road to load the GPS software on Mike's laptop to give Matt's a break. Some guy rolled by saying some racist shit about voting McCain b/c at l...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:14:00 GMT

710 Downtown (Lake Charles, LA)

The drive through hell (houston) was all a blur. Brian drove while the rest of us tried to catch a little nap. Shitty roads packed solid with cars saw to it that that wouldn't be happening. It took 5 ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:02:00 GMT

Speakeasy (Birmingham, AL)

Birmingham is a crazy town. We rolled up into Chris Gwai's house about 430am.   Jason immediately opened his bottle of Canadian Mist and started passing it around. 4 people have never polishe...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:11:00 GMT

Not Meridian

Ok, so Jason just called Meridian Music Underground Exchange and found out they had expected us to be there around 6. Since our estimated arrival time is 10pm, and we were supposed to play for free, a...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:03:00 GMT

Room 710 (Austin, TX)

 Today we got up a while before check-out. Mike and Brian snuck out to a gas station and waited for Matt and Jason to pack up the car.  We headed to Austin and it was fucking HOT! We saw a g...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:11:00 GMT

Walters on Wasington SUCKS!!

The Indian lady at the hotel we just snuck out of thought we were from England. I once met a homeless guy in Charleston South Carolina. He spoke with a cockney ascent but was born and raised in North...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:09:00 GMT