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Rob Crozier-bass, keys, programming, vocals, singing bowls, electronics, harmonica////
Grrsmastics
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Rob Crozier-drums, bass, vocals, melodica, keys, loops=== and
Steve Toth-Guitars, vocals, process, drums
Influences
Eno, Zappa, Branca, Zepp, Sabbath, Floyd, Beatles, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Scott Amendola, Anthony Braxton, Contortions, Devo, Birthday Party, Steely Dan, Tower of Power, Michael Gira/Swans, Ken Filiano, Bill Laswell, Archie Shepp, Trane, Bird, Diz, Miles, Alice Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Ornette, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, John Latini, Terry Farmer, Dave Boutette, Kurt Wolak, Jamie Boyes, My Parents, The Moon, what I ate today,
the air
Rob Crozier: 'Rob's stage engagements are diverse, having performed with the local
rock singer/songwriter Nick Strange, the Celtic folk group Cairn To
Cairn, African native Mady Kouyate, the improvising collective
Sublingual, the E.M.U. Jazz combos, the roots Americana band Crowbar
Hotel and various other ensembles. He has regularly hosted a monthly
Sunday night improviser--s forum, broadcast live on WCBN-FM for the
past two years. His credits include playing the Edgefest, the International
Society For Improvised Music--s inaugural conference, the Ann Arbor
Summer Festival/Top Of The Park and annual Art Fairs, the Exposed Art &
Music Festivals, and the Muskegon Summer Celebration. Venues he has
played at include the Kerrytown Concert House, Canterbury House, the
Bohemian National Home in Detroit, the Pine Knob/DTE Energy Music
Theatre, and various clubs in Ann Arbor, Lansing and Detroit. Rob has
also been critically acclaimed in the All Music Guide, on-line at
allmusic.com, and in The Bible of creative improvised music, the regularly published Cadence Magazine.' Michael G. Nastos
I was thinking it might be enjoyable (for me) to do 2 or 3 two-hour-ish improvisational recordings with Mr. Rob and Mr. Steve. Does that sound at all interesting or worthwhile?
yeah! well mitten staters untie! (I like to call Michigan the Mitten State) I grew up in scenic Bloomfield Hills MI lovely sounds you have going there home taping is the best, that's all I did this summer
