Ryan Tobin
A mainstream mix of acoustic rock, folk, blues, jazz, and world music, Ryan has found many influences for his music from famous artists, books, and local friends and talents, to just sitting on his back deck with his guitar jamming out an eclectic Cuban influenced riff (which became the song titled "My Own Ego").
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Ryan's a laid back, relaxed, take it as it comes kinda guy. A songwriter who's never lost that four year old's sense of wonder of the world. Graduating from "I wanna jam" at the age of six, to a humble "I want to write the best songs I can and I hope that everyone can relate to them to some extent, or at least can dig on them" at the age of 20. Now days Ryan still tries to keep to humbleness but works harder than ever on his song crafting skills. When asked why he started writing songs the reply was oddly simple. In a chuckle he said "I was writing a lot of poetry and a lot of riffs because I used music as an emotional release. I just started putting some of my poetry to my riffs and re-arranged stuff so it sounded like a real songs. So there I was a guy who wrote songs. Now I just cant think of anything Id rather do than write songs and play them for everyone".
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
before going solo I played live but I'm too busy recording my album to play any gigs in the near future
Your musical influences
Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Chad C and the Red Light Saints, Jerry Cantrell, Jesse Winchester, J.J. Cale, and too many others too list
What equipment do you use?
Takamine acoustic guitars, fishman acoustic pick-ups, Godin electric guitars, Fender amps, Dunlop wah pendal, and asorted pendals
Anything else?
Ryan is currently working on recording his first feature length album entitled "Bridging the Gap".
