Looking to form a band. Needs a jazz influenced drummer, a guitarist who is a fan of James Iha, Billy Corgan, and Jonny Buckland's work, and a bassist who rocks. Write bgermer at gmail dot com if interested
Influences
Musical influences include Smashing Pumpkins, Splashdown, Death Cab for Cutie, Nick Drake, Jason Mraz, Matt Hopper, Yann Tiersen, Andrew Norsworthy, Coldplay, Radiohead, the Red House Painters, Silverchair, Collective Soul, Blockhead, David Gray, Hobo Jim, Fleetwood Mac, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Harper, Eddie Vedder, Ben Kweller, old school U2, Portishead, NIN, Damien Rice, Tibetan long horn music, Counting Crows, Dido, Everclear, old Goo Goo Dolls, Tom Petty, Everclear, Elliot Smith, Live, Dredg, Sigur Ros, 7 Mary 3, Oasis, HIM, Tim Easton, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gustavo Santaolalla, Mr. Jonny Cash, old Dashboard Confessional, Vast, Nickel Creek, Flogging Molly, Incubus, Stone Temple Pilots, Feeder, traditional / minimalist Nepalese music, Muse, Deftones, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Rage, Jack Johnson, Atmosphere, Poe, The Violent Femmes, Imogen Heap, and about a thousand more.
The blues and joys that are travel, the dynamics of relationships, freedom, moonlight, dried fallen leaves, green proud leaves, Eastern thought, coffeehouses, sunrises, bon fire parties, fresh powder, Red Bull, Hatcher Pass and the Talkeetnas, college life, ski bum buddies, the AK mentality, change, local art and local artists, and insomniac coffee culture are also influences on Brandon Germer.
Sounds Like
black coffee brewing, chopper blades spinning, jet engines starting, orchestras tuning, boats undocking, and morning breaking
A 5th generation Colorado native, Germer grew up in Palmer, Alaska after moving there from Arvada, Colorado at the age of 5. After spending his youth in the Talkeetnas learning about mountaineering and nature, as well as traveling and spending countless hours at punk shows and coffeehouses, he moved back to Colorado and earned a BS in Business Administration with an emphasis in CIS along with a minor in Asian Studies and an uncompleted minor in Vocal Performance as a University Honors Scholar at Colorado State University.
During college, he worked incessantly on his poetic writing style and improving his expressive ability in music. He also nurtured his thirst for world travel and visited four more foreign countries, and even lived in Japan and trekked thru its North Alps for five months. His two guitars, a Martin DC15E and a Gibson ES135, "Jennifer", never left his side.
Post graduation, he moved back to Alaska, earned a job in the institutional global finance industry and continued to tenaciously pursue his passions of mountains, music, and poetry. Germer currently resides in Anchorage, Alaska.
Quote of the Unspecified Interval:
"Hey- You know this is going to be awesome, right?"
heya brandon (superman) :p how've u been??? what are you up to these days?? im living in perth now, working as a research journalist! cathy is working in LA!!! can u believe its been almost 4 years since our crazy china adventures :) let me know what you are up to! hope everything is going wonderful. miss u xoxo
SNOWBOARDING PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!! Ok enough of that I love you almost as much as I love the idea of cloning Knik. Lets split the 150k. Lets do this!!
Hola friend. How did I get kicked off your top friends list? How depressing. Oh well, I suppose I'll just take it for what it is: a meaningless internet list of friends that really has no truebearing on your actual life. (Yeah right) :-) Hope you're doing well, friend. It's been too long since we've shared a few brewskis. And I still haven't met that girl.....
hey germer, truth is i'm in the concreat jungle of mississippi and memphis, visiting josh's family but we are coming home in a few weeks ( I CANT WAIT!) but this weekend we are attending a festival called the fools ball that should be pretty good. miss you man i hope life in alaska is treating you beautifully Peace & Love Daisy
Married life is going good. We are on baby number two and its a girl this time! Kaleb is doing good he is going to be one April 11th. We are having a party for him April 12th if you would like to come it is at 3pm. Just call 357-0292. It was nice to see you finally wrote back lol! M
ahh it would be fun but alas i am in mississippi right now and guse what ITS SNOWING! and its amazing! but i'm glad you can keep on keeping on in alaska. i hear you guys got up into the 40's the other day i hope you had fun in that. but josh and i will be back in about 3 months and hopefully we will have our new motorhome or have the old one fixed up so we should all go on a trip some place where the water runs clean and the trees grow tall. if you can think of anyplace let me know. untill then Peace & Love DAisy
Hey it was nice to see you by chance on my wedding day : ) What have you been up to? I hardly hear from you anymore. Infact the last time I saw you was pretty much at hatchers and your friends party, seems like eons (sp) ago...Well hope all is going great and that I hear from you soon. Take care, Misty
