Rick Miller Band
David James AKA: The Glue and me Rick Miller are the founding members. David is a busy musician around San Antonio he plays in 3 bands. My brother Randy Mann (t
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Burned Burned
I have been trying to define our music and it has been difficult. It is Texas Music and that doesn’t necessarily mean red dirt country or Texas swing or Texas blues we are all of that intertwined. When I write music I don’t write the song to match a style. I write a song to be a song, that’s it whatever style it is, it is. We are a little bluesy, we are a little red dirt country, we are definitely a little rock and roll and that to me is Texas Music. We take everything that is good mix it up and put our own twist on it. Kinda like a burrito put all the fixins in a tortilla and mix it all up!Band/artist history
David James AKA: "The Glue" and me Rick Miller are the founding members. David is a busy musician around San Antonio he plays in 3 bands. My brother Randy Mann (the silent member) introduced us. I had taken some time off from music to pursue the American dream. Then one day I realized that it wasn't my dream. Never having given up on my song writing I contacted Dave. We auditioned all of two drummers when in comes Will Statezny with soccer shorts and a bottle of water to try out. He blew us away with his ability to feel a song he had never heard before and get in the pocket from the word go. We worked hard on the rhythm section all the while trying to decide which direction to go with our lead instrument. Now David is a rocker to the bone so he knows some good Rock & Roll guitar players. We went thru a couple of guitar players trying to find the sound that we were looking for. Beginning with Mike " The Maestro" Aurora. Mike was a good player in fact he is all over the CD and we are still real good friends but Mike is a bit of a musical whore too not to mention the fact that he is a born again schoolboy so his schedule was not working well with the band. We tried out Steve Yates he was even more on the rock side than Maestro. Steve played with us for the first 6 months and everything seemed to be working well but since our music is so versatile we decided we needed a more versatility out of our guitar player so via our stand in bass player Jerry Winkler enters the newest member of the band Matt Gilmore. Matt plays a plethora of styles jazz, country, rock or what ever the song calls for he is on top of it. He is not originally from Texas and trust me we hold that against him evry chance we get. Seriously I love what we our doing and I love where we our going with this project.
Rick MillerHave you performed in front of an audience?We play live all the time that is what is paying for the CD. We play all over south Texas, I love it. They are always special.
Your musical influences
Tom Petty, Meral Haggard, Eagles, Hall Ketchum, CCR, Van Morrison, Metalica I kind of think every thing that I have listened has influenced me . Unfortunately that means Poison , Tiny Tim the list goes on.What equipment do you use?
Fender Guitars, Fender Amps, Electro Voice Mics, Pearl Drums, Mackie Power and Mackie Mixer not to mention JBL Mains Monitors and Subs.Anything else?
I think that will be all for now.
san Antonio , TX
USA
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751351
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