Artist description Hard to describe, I tend to change musical styles constantly.

Music Style Anything and everything.

Musical Influences Pink Floyd, Jackson Browne, Simon & Garfunkel, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tommy James & the Shondells, The Eagles

Similar Artists NONE

Artist History I started actually by playing this cheap harmonica on the porch with Brenden O'Toole (he has a website here now) and it spurred something, Brenden and I wound up going our separate ways for about 4 or 5 years during which time I found myself in two bands that dissolved in a total of about 3 years. After that I started experimenting in a solo career which consisted of a lot of covers and few self-penned songs. After about a year of that, I just left music altogether for about a year and a half. It took a certain silent film (Not "A Woman Of Affairs") and a passion to score it to make me return to songwriting, only time will tell if things go well.

Group Members Ben - Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Moog, Drums, Vocals.

Instruments Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Drums.

Albums Turn the Page, Money, The Sweet Sound of Thunder, Business As Usual, January 22, 1976, End of an Era, Turning Away, Bakerstreet (None of these are in print anymore), Silence Is Golden, Around The Sun, Around The Silent & Golden Sun, Fallen Windows, Anything Can Happen

Press Reviews uses a diverse number of insturments in a very personal display of ideas and music.....There is great variety here to be appreciated. Chris Gardner Ben - You are the guy they invented phrases like "resolutely stubborn DIY iconoclasm" and "warped DADA sensibilities" for. Your twin guitars on "Graceless Age" are compelling... terrifying. Hell, senseless and wanton. - one blue nine "Recollection" - A somewhat atonal lo-fi song featuring a kind of 'open mic for poets' reading of the lyrics and a piercing, jagged guitar solo as an acoustic guitar strums somewhat disonant sounding chords in the background. As a whole for what it is it's pretty effective. Some of the guitar moans and groans are uncanny and probably impossible to repeat. It's an in the moment kinda thing ya know. Steven K. "Here I Am" - What can I say...? Most interesting! Totally lo-fi in recording and production, with a warbly piano sound and depressingly out of tune vocals. Nice shimmery guitar patch though. It has resemblances to "Bugs" by Pearl Jam and the Eels in feel, but was obviously recorded on a somewhat lower budget. The piano part is musically nice but lack tightness and sounds very late-night-live in timing. I think it hits the right emotional spot though and may even gain a degree of success as a quirky tune! Aquarius "When The Fuse Burns Out" - Production is a bit hissy. A good voice, but should be used more for singing the song. It is used in a odd sorta way to both slow the song and speed it up. The guitar and the drums are fighting in places. Also there is a click track that I would lose. Not sure what you used there. The guitar work is the best stuff here. Its a cool pick that has a real offbeat twist that keeps the listener listening. -The Luddite

Location Aurora, Colorado - USA

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