YANAHAY HOOPER, front man, lead and backing vocals, guitar and slide guitar.
A song writer, Yana grew up playing Bass guitar and listening to Frank Zappa. We still catch him moonlighting with the local jazz quartet. Original band founder and over twenty year band Member...............................................
TOM FOREST, Keyboard and Organ, lead and backing vocals, percussion. Tom is an original founding member of the band and has been writing music for Rootstock for well over twenty years. Head dread and a great songwriter, Tom hails from Jersey, NY. ..................................
LEX KRAUSS, Guitar and Vocals, is a lifetime musician and recording artist who joined Rootstock in 1987. Composing his first original music at age 5 on the family Piano and later picking out chords on an acoustic guitar, Lex grew up playing by ear. . .
In the 1980s Lex studied Music Concrete and Keyboard Synthesis as well as Corral sight-reading. In 1983 Lex began experimenting with a Fostex 250 multi-track recording unit which spurred his interest in pro-recording. Currently using a DAW to record his Solo Music, Lex can be heard at www.myspace.com/lex5 . .
Discovering Reggae Music at the age of 12, Lex has written such songs as See No Color, Scat Music and Roll This Way for the Rootstock Band. ........................
ELLERY CLARK, Bass Guitar. The "Kid". Ellery is the son of a local music shop owner and remembers going to Rootstock shows when he was a kid. Bringing HipHop and funk influences to Rootstock, vocally Ellery steps forward in the live set for several leads, and can also cover JR Marvin like spandex! .................
FRANKIE ROBLETTO, Drummer, Percussion and Vocalist, 3rd generation son of a jazz pianist popular in San Francisco in the 1950s. Frankie grew up listening to a variety of Jazz, Latin, Classical, African, and later on his own more soulful influences including Country and Folk of the Caribbean Islands. Frank started playing drums to local AM radio stations and performed his first gig at age 9 in 1966 for the Girl Scouts, with a group formed of school friends called Free Love. . . .
Over the last three decades he has performed with at least 30 different bands with styles from Tex-Mex and Punk to Reggae and Top 40. Bands include but are not limited to, the Transistors, Sagittarius Band, The Mighty Whispers, the Sonny Turner Show, Hedzole Sounz, CIA Band, Coast-to-Coast Blues Band, Ron Huges Show, and Bodacious Bros to name a few.
Frankie has also shared the stage with an impressive line up of well-known recording artists including Tito Puente, Armando Peraza, Eeka Mouse, Dennis Brown, Yellow Man, Gregory Isaacs, Neville Bros, Y+T, Motley Crew, Cheap Trick, Journey, Jefferson Starship, Los Lobos, Cameo, Cool and the Gang, Chic, Jazz Crusaders, George Duke, George Benson, The Spinners, Travis Trit, Marshall Tucker Band and many more!............................................
JIM DOOLEY, Trumpet, Horns. Jim has been a welcome addition bringing horn lines and solos into the mix. Jim is also a member of "Mambo This" Latin and Jazz band.
Influences
In no particular Order*****************
**********Bob Marley James Brown Steel Pulse Santana Third World Mutabaruka Peter Tosh Fela Burning Spear Zack-I Bunny Wailer LKJ AND MANY MANY MORE TO ADD
ROOTSTOCK --
The World Reggae Fusion Jam Band--
Rootstock is a highly respected 5-piece rock reggae group from the heart of Northern California, formed in 1983.__________
For over twenty years, performing at concerts and festivals in Nevada, California and Oregon, Rootstock has opened for such reggae greats as Third World, Israel Vibrations, the Congos, Zulu Spear, Messenjah, The Itals, Prezident Brown, The Wailers Band, Burning Spear, Wadi Gad, and many others.____________
known as Mendo's own, Rootstock has remained on the outskirts of fame...a name recognized for decades by many Nor-Cal locals, their kids, and their kid's kids._______________
But for those who have not heard the band, or have not heard the band in several years....you are in for a real different experience!_______________________________________Promote Peace Thru Music / end that dirty little war in Iraq!
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Read "The Whole History" blog for a wealth of Band details.
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So I hear! With all skills and talents combined … damn … must say the band sound indubitably exceptional! Able to see the fire all the way over here at the East Coast! Wow! It would be fabulous if I was able to see you guys live!!! ~ Peace and Love ~
MAKASOUND SUMMER PARTY Au New Morning le 18 juin 2008 MAKASOUND SUMMER PARTY
Makasound Roots Record selection by Own Mission Blind test (albums à gagner)
Showcases Le 18 juin 2008 au New Morning De 18h à 2h du matin
Showcases artistes avec Takana Zion – Tu Shung Peng – Alpha Wess
Winston McAnuff – Il est 5h02... – Victor Démé - Sig feat. Kus Talk New Morning – 7 rue des petites écuries 75010 – M Château d’eau Location 15 € dans les points de ventes habituels et sur place
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MARCH 8TH AND 9TH
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