THE BOB KEETON TRIO is a new group I have just established.
Bass player is Steve Hooke.
Steve has an extensive playing career starting with hard rock cover bands in the 70's in Auckland.In the 80's he attended Jazz courses,formed a Jazz combo and played Festival gigs
and Jazz clubs.He also played bass with the Wellington Polytech Big Band and the New Zealand Jazz Orchestra.More recently Steve has been playing with local musos in "The Eastbourne Borough Council" band doing mostly benefit gigs.
Last year Steve started playing with Phil Hope and John Broadbent to form "off The Hook"-a semi-acoustic outfit doing mainly original material.
Steve and I have been joined by Steye Wren.
Steve is originally from the England and has played on many U.K. recordings since the mid-
eighties ,most notably as drummer with London Synth-pop band "then jericho" who reached number 4 on the U.K. charts with "big Area".
Steve's a great player and I'm thrilled to have him on board.
Influences
My influences are very extensive and wide ranging. I guess I like music so much that the different styles don't limit my passions. The most influencial artists have been (to name a few) The Beatles, Kinks, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Sting, Police, Marc Bolan, The Bee Gees, Ray Charles, Elton John's early material, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Burton Cummings, The Guess Who, Randy Bachmann, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Steve Marriot. You can add Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Jimmy Webb, The Eagles, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, James Brown and Johnny Winter to that list too.
I have been gigging around Wellington (the Capitol of New Zealand) as a Keyboard Player for just over 15 years. My work has also included playing solo piano in cocktail bars in Wellington's hotels and leading restaurants and I have also played with a few funk/jazz groups, cover rockers, theatre orchestras as well as several swing/dance bands, the most popular being the Benj Berryman Hiptet back in the 1990's.
In 2007 I worked in a Joe Cocker tribute band called simply "Hitchcock Railway" which was a lot of fun. I have always loved music and picked up a guitar very young, which was my passion until I turned 18. Heading off to Victoria University to continue my Education, I enrolled in the Classical Music programme as they did not have Courses on Rock'n'Roll or Jazz. This introduced me to the piano and of course, the techniques and styles of music's structures and forms. It has proved an invaluable training for me. I completed a Degree on Music Composition.
In 2003 I made an album of my own material which I started composing back in the 1990's. A strictly private project, I sold all the pressings at my gigs and approached a number of local record shops about stocking it too. It was here (at Wonderland Records) that I met Dene Kellaway who was very excited about the album and it turned out he owned a record label back in the 60's and 70's and was planning on re-activating it in the near future. 4 years later.... Dene rang me and said he was launching Tree again on a global basis and he wanted to sign me up.
A major make-over of the cover and suddenly my album had been titled "Stronger" and launched at CD Baby in America and supplied to 27 global mp3 downloading sites like iTunes, Tradebits, Napster and many more. The hard copies of the album are due for manufacture in early 2008.
You can hear 2 minute sound samples of all the songs (13 in total) at www.cdbaby.com/cd/bobkeeton and read more about me on Tree Record's own Website at www.beatzonemedia.com
Years, Months, Hours, Minutes and Seconds of devotion is to be released globally through The Orchard. You’re NOW getting 6 Free On-Line songs for a couple of days and then another set of 6 new ones will follow. Just click http://www. myspace. com/istvanmusic
Please add! Your comments are deeply appreciated. Which songs would U like to hear on the radio, if any?
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