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• Marcus Hogle - Bass
  
• Elaine - Sax, Clarinet, and Trumpet
  
• Hakan Guven - Drums and Percussion
  
• Jim Rivera - Guitar
• Joonbug - former guitarist on recordings

• Marcus Hogle began playing guitar at 13 in Tucson, Arizona. He spent his college days in Flagstaff, AZ making original music with bands (Uncle Phil's Local Brew, Degobah System, Nodule).

  In 1999 he caught the westward-ho bug and moved to SF in order to pursue the progressive music scene. Various projects introduced him to local musicians. Several good years of writing songs eventually culminated into the band Trouser.

  After having a good run they disbanded and Marcus picked up the bass to start work on some new music. For a band leader who needed to get another project underway, the bass was the right choice for the riffage that would ensue. He and his drummer would form Rigor then Sonic Vimana.

  To satisfy the longings of the guitarist within, he sought another project that became the jazz band Quixote.

  Both bands dissolved mysteriously at the same time though. Ask anyone why, but nobody knows, up from the ashes Naughty Fingers arose.

  .. photos by Mitch Aidelbaum

• Jim Rivera was born in Detroit and started playing guitar at age 12. His early years were spent playing with the hard rock bands Homegrown and Dorian Grey and was later active in the mid-west college music scene with the bands Tequila Mockingbird and Corporal Brown.

  After college, he moved to Milwaukee where he studied at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and played with the band Headroom.

  In 1996, he moved to San Francisco where he collaborated with experimental group Way Beyond Jazz and singer-songwriter Eric Wimmer.

  From 2003-2007, he lived in London and was highly influenced by the thriving British music scene.

  He is now back in the Bay Area playing with the band Naughty Fingers.

  .. photos by Mitch Aidelbaum

• Hakan Guven was born in Istanbul. Although he started playing the piano at 7 yrs old, his love for drums started when he was 3, and he finally took them up at 16. During his early years he played with the Turkish speed metal band "Pegasus" and Hard Core band "Hole In The Wall".

  At 18 he went to Australia for college education. There furthered his study of drums while getting his marketing degree, played with the funk band "Freckle" and bassist Steven Vickers, as well as making a lot of other "muso" friends. He also studied with Australian drumming great David Jones.

  Hakan went back to Turkey in 1996. There he worked with great composer Ilyas Mirzayev, in " Ilyas Mirzayev International Project". He also ran his production company "Garage Music" between 1998-2001. In Istanbul, he played and collaborated with countless local talents such as Cem Basak, Aziz Sahin, Jan Peridar, Erman Ergunal, Can Tatli Parmak, Cem Aksel Tatli Parmak, to name just a few.

  In 2001 he came to San Francisco, where he studied composition with great musician and teacher Rebeca Santana Mauleon and has been studying drums and working and recording with local talents such as, Yard Dogs Road Show (SF), Evren Edler (LA), SCROTE (LA), Marcus Hogle (SF), David Alt(SF) ever since.

  .. photos by Mitch Aidelbaum

• Elaine (a.k.a. David Alt) studied clarinet and composition at the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, and with Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians.

  While earning a Mathematics and Physics degree from MIT, David performed in recital and radio broadcast with Evan Ziporyn, performed chamber music coached by John Harbison and was awarded an Eloranta Fellowship for composing.

  In addition to playing in Naughty Fingers, David leads the trio Alt Tal (Original Jazz Combustion), produces the chamber Jazz ensemble The Mutual Admiration Org and teaches music performance, theory and reed-making in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  .. photos by Mitch Aidelbaum

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