J.T. Cole: Guitar, Vocals - Jesse, 28 years old, was born in Lima, Ohio and raised near Lafayette, Ohio. He began playing bass at the age of 16, soon after turning to guitar. In this band he has taken on the role of lead vocalist in addition to playing rhythm guitar and some leads. He's heavily influenced by 90's rock such as Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains and by outlaw country and southern rock acts like Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd and similar acts.
Josh Cole: Bass - Josh, 31 and brother of Jesse brings his southern roots from his birthplace of Yellville, Arkansas. Josh started his musical journey on guitar in an effort to emmulate his childhood idols, Jimmy Hendrix and Jimmy Page. After playing in several bands without drummers, he took up percussion and played the tins and skins for 7 years in the band Stifle, before finally landing on his current instrument, bass guitar. Josh is a true utility musician, capable and comfortable in any position.
Jason Wheeler: Guitar - Jason,29 years old, was born and raised in Westminster, OH. He began playing guitar at age 20 after being influenced by co-worker and fellow guitarist Dave Kerr (currently with "The Rock N' Roll Outlaws”). Jason learned quickly with the help of Dave and countless hours of independent practice and study. He is now a confident and capable player who enjoys the sounds and musical influences of Metallica, Black Label Society, Black Sabath, and Johnny Cash.
Brian Carpenter: Drums - Brian, 30 has drum sticks in his hands ever since he can remember. It was inevitable that Brian would come to love the drums considering his grandfather was a big band drummer during the 2nd world war. Plenty of exposure to Buddy Rich and Gene Kruppa gave Brian a solid base to pursue his love of heavier breeds of music like Tool and Breaking Benjamin. After a 5 year stay with the traveling rock band Spendid Chaos, Brian got away from music for awhile. Now he has a renewed love for the drums with Brother Believe Me.
Brad is 25 years old. He started playing banjo, guitar, dobro and mandolin proffesionally with his family's bluegrass band at the age of 8. At the age of 11 Brad made national news when he became the youngest performer ever to play on the "Grand Ole Opry" in Nashiville Tennessee. Brad plays several different instruments and got bitten by the Rock bug when he was asked to drum for the band "Fusion" when he was 15. Throughout his musical career Brad has fronted several Rock, Country and Bluegrass bands and has performed all over the country playing shows with or opening for such acts as Nonpoint, Hed P.E., Brooks & Dunn, Bryan White, Ralph Stanley, Megan Mullins and many, many more. Brad joined Brother Believe Me in October of 2008 to help out temporarily and is now a permanent fixture in the group.
Brad's list of musical influences is too long to even start mentioning.
Influences
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kris Kristofferson, Pearl Jam, Willie Nelson, Alice in Chains, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, ZZtop, Corrosion of Conformity, Pantera, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Label Society, Tool and The Deftones
..Brother Believe Me is a NW Ohio based rock band that specializes in
entertaining live shows that get people up and out of their seats and onto the
dance floor..
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Brother Believe Me is a NW Ohio based rock band that
specializes in entertaining live shows that get people up and out of their
seats and onto the dance floor. The band was formed in early 2007 and since
that time has played at venues in Lima, Findlay, Indian Lake, Celina,
Coldwater, Ft. Wayne, Columbus, Ada, Kalida, Miller City, Bluffton (OH), and
more. In 2008, Brother Believe Me won the Kalida Pioneer Days Battle of the
Bands with an incendiary (and near riot-inducing) AC/DC cover. BBM also
finished a single point out of first place in the Cyclepalooza Battle of the
Bands earlier that year. 2008 was also the year the band released its first
disc of original material entitled Things Change. Whatzup magazine’s review
of the disc stated “…well-played, straight ahead modern rock with the bark left
on, sometimes aggressive and sometimes introspective and dusty,” and “…the band
is all about tough, modern-meets-classic Southern rock.” Then in 2009 came BBM's most recent accolade as they won the "Wish Upon A Song" band contest, which led to a half hour of TV coverage on local NBC and Fox networks.
While BBM’s members all put a lot of creative energy into creating their own
original music, the band has built its good times reputation by playing popular
cover songs from the past four decades of rock ‘n roll. The band is constantly
adding new material to its repertoire. The current song list is below:
Before recorded music there was the sound of one hand clapping, centuries later a little known trombonist named Ebus Harrinutzin would add the second hand. A millenia later we are still waiting for that musical third hand to be added. Prophecy says a band of many brothers will revolutionize muzic with a third hand clapping but must control the dissonance within and without. This group must be beyond allthings musical and enter the realm of non noise and only then can a third hand be added without destroying the integrity of sound barrier therfore rendering all humans and non humans deaf within a 874 mile radius. Ergo we wait in mute silence until this sound can be produced and controlled on earth as it has been in other humanic cultures across the oceans of space an time in which we all await.
Love you guys!! Bruised my hand rockin it out with that tambourine...but it was a sure blast guys!! Look forward to rockin with u again! wooooo hooooo!
We sure did! I LOVED meeting all your wives/gfs too! I think we had a total of 8 extras coming that night. They will be coming back for sure. Love you Fantabulous BBM!
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look'n guy??is that really Brian the drummer??!!LOL! I laughed so hard...you guys are great! Rock on!
