RockerBiff
RockerBiff - ranging from low key ambient to wild guitar mixed with snappy beats
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Sahara Sahara
Midnight chase across an Arabian desert with the tanks and armoured division following close behind....
God Amongst Insects God Amongst Insects
old school style electronique - in spired by early Jarre
RockerBiff - closet guitarist until 2000, then introduced to live performance via the late Robert Samuel.
RockerBiff has since released numerous CD's, each a statement of a developing style. The new CD "Deliverance and a Damned Nation" will be officially available October 1. 2003 Several pre-release tracks are available on this site.Band/artist history
Artist History
Born in the industrial heart of North West England, RockerBiff discovered music at young age whilst listening to Jim Reeves at an Aunt's house.Some years later (76) the long hot summer of punk erupted on to the British music scene, yet Biff and his pals stayed with the more traditional sounds of Thin Lizzy, Be-Bop Deluxe, Sad Cafe and Status Quo. 1976 Biff and friends also saw their first ever rock concert - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow at the Liverpool Empire.After forming a club band, which had Biff as soundman, Topper toured the working men's clubs in the north of England performing cover tunes such as Baker Street, Light my Fire and Whisky in the Jar. Sadly all of which came to an end in the summer of 81 when Biff and his family moved to Vancouver BC.Upon arrival on the "Wild Frontier" the family dropped in to an economic depression. The heavily unionised music biz had no room for the likes of RockerBiff and so he refocused his talents to a small campus radio station at Simon Fraser University. As a result Biff spun the records on his 4 hour show "Sounds from Abroad" from 83-90. SFA became the stations longest running show to date. Biff also got to meet many of his fave guitarists and performers, Gary Moore, Thomas Dolby, Paul Horn, Allan Holdsworth, Level 42, Wishbone Ash, Cowboy Junkies, Billy Bragg and many more..As the internet revolution dawned, Biff began work as Mac tech support for one of Vancouver's largest ISP's, at which he was introduced to MP3's and rediscovered music all over again. This lead to hosting his own MP3 server on Hotline and eventually on the Mac based Carracho. Rockers Paradise continues to be one of the most popular servers supplying new and unsigned progressive rock and instrumental bands to new audiences.March 2000 saw Biff return to Simon Fraser University to work in the Office of Research services as tech support and to fortuitously meet up Robert Samuel, a musician of many years who was in the process of releasing his music via mp3.com. For the month of September 2000, RockerBiff took over and recorded 9 tracks with no aspirations whatsoever. After some deliberation and consternation RockerBiff performed his first gig in front of live folks at the Adanac Co-Op Community Hall November 18, fulfilling a 23 year dream.Have you performed in front of an audience?Mostly Open Mic nights in the Vancouver area.
Your musical influences
Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, Jarre, Gary Moore Tangerine Dream, Ultravox, Eno, Jeff Beck, Thin Lizzy, Steve Tibbets, Bill Nelson, David TornWhat equipment do you use?
Mac G4 with Reason triggered by a MidiMan Oxygen 8 keyboard, for mixing I use Bias Deck and Peak. Can't afford a soundcard as yet. Guitar - Fender fat strat. Amp - Fender RocPro 700. Zoom 505 multi FX pedalAnything else?
always something else....
Vancouver,
Canada
ID
40968
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Comments (7)
sahara- - - - - SUPER SONF!!!!!!!!!
thank you
hey, rockerbiff....
i found you!!! hopefully you are still composing?! hope to hear from you soon.
volker
Sahara's WAY COOL!! Very nice.. I will listen to more!
Cyndee, electric violin
yo was up, nice tracks i was wonderin if i could use one of em fer my album?
Hey Rocker
Thanks for putting "Reason for Everything" on your station. I really appreciate it. I just listened to your tracks and really enjoyed them.Keep up the great work only wish you had more to hear on Soundclick...Best wishes and much continued success.
as
always
Dave
