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ik ben

Prima, bedankt!

About Me

Natives of San Diego, Republic of California, ik ben recently arrived to Nashville from stops including but not limited to Portland Oregon, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, London, Firenze, Italy and Lefty Frizell's Saginaw Michigan. Led by brother duo Scotstoffersen and Brian Tobias Eel-Bear, the group offers glimpses of inspiration from the likes of the Velvets, The Dirty Mac, Faces, Big Star, Kristoffersen, Townes van Zant and the Glimmer Twins. A recordist in L.A. dubbed it "brother rock," but was let go after dismissing the Stones' 1981 LP Tattoo You as nothing more than a vehicle for the stadium anthem "Start Me Up." On a side-note, both brothers abandoned promising soccer careers overseas to pursue their rock-n-roll stateside. Two small samplings of home and studio demos have industry types chomping at the bit.
http://www.awarestore.com/index.php?op=view_artist&artis t_id=6053

yeah, ummmm...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/21/2005
Band Members: Scott Hylbert & Brian Hylbert
Influences: christopher guest, european football, corduroys, ron wood's hair, early fender and gibson products, holland, lots of heavy dark guitar chords, an equal amount of sunny pop melodies, late 60s film stars, reggae, charmkin music and scooter rallies, scottish wuss rock, long lunches, playing tennis with old wood racquets, the Gretzky-Mess-Kurri line, vino & vinyl, keeping match-fit.
Sounds Like: rock-n-roll
Record Label: Polymer Records ltd.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

upcoming stuff

It's been a while since ik ben has come up for air.  Brian has been renovating "Inglenook" the e. nashville chateau he purchased with his last record deal loot, a home once owned by someone forme...
Posted by ik ben on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:43:00 PST

ik ben on youtube!

Here's the Ik Ben boys (Scott Hylbert on bass and intro, Brian Hylbert on guitar) backing Thad Cockrell with Ken Coomer on drums. Saw Thad at Spoon last night and he alerted us to this video. Trying...
Posted by ik ben on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:19:00 PST

"Everything Under the Sun"

Ik Ben contributed their song "(ever so) Gingerly" to the following...please consider supporting this cause."Everything Under the Sun"..Everything Under the Sun.. is the first CD released by Uncle Gru...
Posted by ik ben on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:13:00 PST

RANSOM SEABORN a book by Bill Deasy

Hi ya:A friend from Pittsburgh named Bill Deasy has written a fine novel which IK BEN recommends for you this holiday season.  Give the gift of words to someone (or yourself).  http://www.am...
Posted by ik ben on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:38:00 PST

Hail Atlantis!

Hail Atlantis!  "On board were the Twelve:The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.Though Gods they were -And as the elders of o...
Posted by ik ben on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:28:00 PST

gig the other night

we had some friends in town this past weekend, the Dullards (from DC).  Alistair and Guy are pals from childhood; youth soccer, little league, fencing, equestrian and surfing were among the activ...
Posted by ik ben on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:23:00 PST

what they are saying about ik ben....

Grimey's New and Pre-loved MusicD-Funk's top ten:Top 11 Grimeys In-store PerformancesIt was really hard to narrow this list down to 10 so this list goes to 11!  I mean we also had John Butler T...
Posted by ik ben on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:10:00 PST

shows, world cup soccer and a quote...

hey ho hee hi- the ik ben collective (me, brian, us, nosotros) is making two very rare and special appearances in the coming weeks.  first, we are contributing a couple of songs to the Jon Byrd h...
Posted by ik ben on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:09:00 PST

blog blog blog

hey - thanks for all the support last night for our Tin Pan South show at the Basement.  you missed one helluva writer's round.  we absolutely crushed Charlie Degenhart's "Val Wrenne", Shawn...
Posted by ik ben on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:07:00 PST

Townes Van Zandt show photos!! from the Belcourt Theatre

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~jbrassil/photos/060106belcourt.ht ml (move mouse over photos to change pic) Wow, what a night...
Posted by ik ben on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:10:00 PST