Artist description A Ludwig drum-kit from 1969, a red synth called "Karma", a marshall stack, an ampeg bass-amp and some fender guitars. The sound is like a -70's kinda rock groove mixed with a guitar from the -90's grunch era mellowed by a synth from the -80's.

Music Style Rock

Musical Influences Mostly artists/bands from the -70's such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath etc.

Similar Artists Some say Soundtrack of our lives mixed with Smashing Pumpkins. We don't have a clue...!

Artist History The Drives got formed during summer 2002. Some of us knew eachother from before. All members live in Oslo/Norway doing different things to earn for life. Ambitions are high and our primar goal is to travel around the world playing our music. We rehearse at least twice a week trying to develop a typical "The Drives sound". It's not easy to get an origin sound, but we believe in coincidenses. We got quite different backgrounds in music and when we formed the band we knew that very well (okay, that wasn't a coincidence), but we got together with the skills we had (and those we did'nt have) and played as hard as we could. It was fun! Therefore!!!

Group Members Mats Halvorsen vocal/guitar Kjartan Nystad keyboard Egil Bærntzen bass Kristian Syvertsen drums

Location Oslo, Oslo - Norway

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