"The Hot Flashes"; Bonnie: vocal, rythm guitar. Barb: bass. Tama: percusion and vocal. Charles: guitar.
Influences
jimmy page: led zeppelin/ the firm/ coverdale page/ the yardbirds, eric clapton/ cream/ blind faith/ derek and the dominos/ the yardbirds, jeff beck/ the yardbirds, roger waters/ david gilmore; pink floyd, jimi hendrix, ritchie blackmore; deep purple/ rainbow/ blackmore's night, traci gunns/ la gunns, pete townsend; the who, bob dylan, tori amos, tracy chapman, jane's addiction, iron maiden, matthew sweet, frank zappa, robert johnson, muddy waters, and a bunch of old blues guys you've probubly never heard of and anything that moves me.
Sounds Like
i mainly play a blues based style (like everyone else who plays classic rock LOL). I like to blend in a little bit of jazz and classical styling to it though, kinda makes it stand out a little and gives me a chance to "express" it a little different. I like to touch on a little of everything, keeps me into it and you never know when it can come in handy. I guess i'm a cross betwen jimmy page and david gilmore in how i approach composing; relaxed but with a little definition to geting the feeling across. Basicly, it has to have feeling in it, if not it's gonna be stale no matter what you do with it.
I started playing in my early teens, just jamming with various people and so forth. Finaly helped form a band called "Paper Rock Sizzers" in mid 90’s and did that for a few years. We did cut our own cd but never got a chance to promote it. I have also helped on a project called "Gone Mental" as well as "Yo Stro, Dance of the Bones" with Kurt Strohecker (keyboardest and singer of ’Paper Rock Sizzers’). In 2004 I recorded my own project called "Somewhere In The Middle", an instrumental cd playing all the instruments myself. I joined the Hot Flashes in 2006. Right now i’m working on material for my next cd (anouther instrumental) and jamming with various musicians in the area.
