we love every kind of music pretty much but here are some artists that really influence our playing...
Nickle Creek, David Grisman, Sam Bush, Stephan Grapelli, Bill Monroe, Brian Wicklund, Bob Dylan, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bearfoot, Mary Schallert, Nat King Cole, Jerry Garcia, Ella Fitzgerald, South Austin Jug Band, Matt Costa, The Beatles, Tony Rice, Chris Thlie, The Grateful Dead, Mark O'Connor, Johnny Cash, Fats Waller, Django Reinhart, Darrell Scott, Tim O'Brien, Edgar Meyer....and many many more...
Seekbob began before we really had a choice about things. At five years old, you don't really decided to start a band. Luckily, Mary Schallert decided that for us. She formed a little group of little children who got together every week to bang on triangles and make horrible noises with kazoos. We were called the Polar Bear Band, and we weren't good. We were, however, totally adorable and at that age not a whole lot else matters. But since you can't coast through life on looks alone (generally) we had to learn to play some instruments. Real instruments. By the age of seven, we all finally had something. Then we needed a new name. We must have been having some sort of identity crisis. And being small children, we picked out some of the worst names in the world. The Salmon Egg Band, The Clover Bud Band, and The Orca Band were the top contenders. Thank goodness we saved ourselves by creating an acronym. For a long time we were S.E.C.B.O.B but everyone pronounced that wrong, which a short E instead of a long one. Understandable, really, but it wasn't right. So we changed the spelling to SeekBob because by then we weren't really attatched to those symbolic letters. Now the band consists of Kalia Yeagle, Forrest Allen, Garren Volper, and Emily McLaughlin. We have had other members in the band, but bands evolve just like everything else, and it will probably stay the way it is now. We don't tie ourselves down to one specific genre, because we really play whatever we like. Thank you for being our friend.
Sounding good guys! Wish I could've been around for AFF, but sunny Califoriaay has a hold on me what can I say. I'll be up for a couple weeks in March, maybe I'll see ya!
sebastopol is seriously lacking volper love,where are you going to be next year? i dont know wheather i should move up there or go to collage some random place.
WOOOOOHHH!!!!!WEEEE!!!AHHHHH!!! OH MY GOD I LOVE SEEK BOB I WANT TO HAVE YOUr BABIES YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST PLEASE COME TO CALIFORNIA IM YOU BIGGEST FAN!!!AHHH OMG AND I AM LIKE TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH THAT DREAMY MANDOLIN PLAYER OF YOURS!!BUT ITS HARD TO PICK BETWEEN HIM AND THE SEXY MYSTERIOUS BASS PLAYER.
*muah i love you guys for realsies you just keep getting better. i cant wait to see you again-and whoooo another photo op!
Hello Seek Bob!!!! Well, aren't you guys just adorable!!! Thanks so much for the friendship and for sharing your tunes with me!!! Wish I would've had the opportunity to see you guys play when I lived up in Alaska!!! Sometime though I'm sure our paths will cross...I'd love to see you perform live!! You just happen to play my music of choice that I love to see in person!!! So happy to listen to your tunes!! I'll be back by again for sure!! Keep on spreading the joy of music!! Peace and love to you all!!!!!!!
You guys are awesome too, you should come down to the tap root any wednesday night, I would love to have you guys play a set. 7:30 to 10:00 call me, Bill's got my number. Todd
Hey, Yall need to let me know when you wanna jam some time or do more coachings. Im leaving friday to go to New Hampshire for two weeks so we will have to do it after i get back at the end of feb. Hope all is well :) By the way... Awesome job at folk fest. Way to rock the house ;)
Yeah I know, first friday, I was there. Kinda... since when is artic the hood? The only thing "hood" about it was the caddi with dubs in the ally. Haha.
Right now I'm not doing anything. We got back from alyeska, and i passed out for 3 hours.
You guys were fabulous at the folk festival! I dunno though, the Mariachis might possibly have beaten you on the awesome scale, what with their sombreros and all.. ;)
