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Rob Higginbotham

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  • Genre: Acoustic / Celtic / Electroacoustic

    Location NASHVILLE, Un

    Profile Views: 8889

    Last Login: 8/27/2011

    Member Since 6/14/2005

    Website robhigginbotham.com

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    ........"IN THE END WE SHALL HAVE HAD ....ENOUGH OF CYNICISM, ....SKEPTICISM & HUMBUG,.... .. AND WE SHALL WANT TO ......LIVE MORE ....MUSICALLY." .... ..--Vincint Van Gogh......

  • Members

    ..Rob Higginbotham, Javier Santiago, Chris Lowry ..

  • Influences

    I was thinking back, and I think Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" had a profound influence on me. It was the first album I ever owned, a big vinyl sucker that I wore the grooves out of. I remember singing songs from it in the backseat of my parents' hulking 1972 Chevy Impala when I was 5 or 6. When I was 8 I remember Pink Floyd's "The Wall" coming out, and I wore that out too. I got Styx's "Paradise Theatre" when I was 10 and listened to it ad nauseam. Mixed in there somewhere was John Couger, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and a bunch of classical music, Bach, Ravel, Mozart, Beethoven. Then in high school I discovered heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer and their lesser derivitives. I grew long hair and smoked my first joint and drank a lot of German beer (living in Germany then). .... In my junior year in Springfield VA (suburb of Wash. D.C.) I discovered classical guitar (beyond what snippets Kirk Hammett and the like would put in their songs), and began a life journey through the guitar masters of the ages, Sor, Tarrega, Aguado, Coste, Brouwer. I was fortunate enough to take lessons from Gustavo Them, a grad student under top ranked world guitar maestro Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. I continued my studies under Mark Godwin at Lipscomb University. .... Today I'm enjoying the Indie Revolution! Currently under heavy rotation in my iPod: The Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Justin King, Clap Your Hands, Talking Heads (back to the source), Modest Mouse, Michael Hedges, Peter Gabriel, Loreena McKinnett, Miles Davis, Ani DiFranco, Steve Reich, Arvo Part, The Golden Sounds, Ben Lee, Zero 7, Iron & Wine, Adam Hill, Venus Hum, The Blue Man Group, Coldplay, Edgar Myer/Bela Fleck, Frou Frou, Goldfrapp, Gus Black, Massive Attack, Damien Rice, King Crimson, The Twilight Singers, Nickel Creek, Lemoncholy, Low, The Assad Brothers, Violence and Valentines, Anthony Skinner, Keane, Simon and Garfunkel, and Yes

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