more like inspiration...
Jimi Hendrix,
Paco de Lucia,
BB King,
John Scofield,
Neil Young,
Tool,
Johnny Cash,
Rodrigo y Gabriela,
Eric Clapton,
John Butler Trio,
Keb' Mo',
The Roots,
Bob Dylan,
Nirvana,
Mason Jennings,
Waylon Jennings,
Willie Nelson,
Ben Harper,
Xavier Rudd,
Strunz and Farah,
Rage,
Led Zepplin,
Brett Dennen,
Bob Marley,
and all my friends
Sounds Like
your soul crying...
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With his roots spreading from Northern California to Indonesia, Ben "Benji Da" Melosh brings fresh booty bumpin', intellectually stimulating and culturally diverse music to the ears of the thirsty. Distroying stereotypes left and right Ben's music brings influences of Blues, Jazz, Nuevo Flamenco, Reggae and Country to his Folk Rock center. Wether he is playing slide on his twelve string, tuning up his resonator or has got his beloved six string, Caldonia, on his knee, Ben can always be found bringing tones to the tonedef and love to the hopeless. So step up and get down with these sounds.
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Hi! We're stopping thru Santa Barbara on our West coast tour! Wed. Dec. 2nd at Live Culture Lounge. Please come out and support and help spread the love!! xoxo - Astra
Sounds good. I know I start training for my teaching position on the 6th and it will be ongoing for a few more months but hopefully we can work something out. the extra coin i make from taking those paid surveys online helps out alot tho; you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
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I prolly won't have anything going on that weekend so if nothing else, maybe I can get back to town for a few days then. If I can work it out, you'll have to meet 'em too. Talk to ya later buddy. Keep me updated!
Mackenzie and Ricky are getting married in May. How have you been doing? We are going Saturday and start looking at dresses. They didn't give me much notice but thats Mackenzie, right? LOL Oh hey! I already took the pics to be printed lol! Some of them were soo freakin hilarious! And i loved the picture of us ... it was sooo cute..so yah, guess what? 'member those surveys i was doing online? well, i got 2 checks so far! told ya it was real!! it aint like a ton of money, just like 175 so far, but its good coin to start with, right? you should really do it, now that i've gotten paid ..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
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Benji da ~ Bro kick ass with you gig tonight(you always rock it brotha man) wish I could be there, but good vibes sent to SB brotha man. I'll do a roadie with Joe sometime soon. Peace luv hapiness Drew
Just got back from a month in Sumatra bro, epic time, epic people, epic waves. How was Guatemala? Holla back from the mountain, I'll be in the valley by the beach.
if you're in los angeles tomorrow night (wednesday) i will be playing at the standard hotel downtown around 10- and i would love to see you there! (info is on my space)
yoyo Benji ~ what's up bro? Was just thinking about you & like clockworks I had a space from you! Life's going well just flat out with uni work and trying make something of this short life? Heaps have the bug itchy feet & wanna explore the world.. Capital is the only thing holding me back haha How the tunes? Masters? Life treating you mate? Get back at me asap pecae luv happiness ONE LOVE Drew
Thnx for adding me Ben..I enjoyed coming to ur page and listening to ur guitar. Your tracks are awesome..I like Get in Love..but their all gr8t..Thnx..Luv and Respect from South Texas. Lupe
Don't know of any in Guatemala. I'm flying to Indo in a few weeks, gonna be rippin' it in Java and Sumatra broham. Hope you score some waves down south. Drop some knowledge on me about Indo, Know of any cheap places to stay in Sumatra near surf? Holla