Bob - Bbbob
ARTIST.....: Bob
TITLE......: Bbbob
LABEL......: Independent
URL........: http://www.bobband.com/
RIP DATE...: Jun-12-2008
STORE DATE.: Jun-00-2008
GENRE......: Crossover
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 60,0 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Bump In The Road 03:07
02 - What We Do 03:28
03 - Cali 04:41
04 - Tip The Board 03:24
05 - Busted Dreams 04:09
06 - Trigger Man 03:37
07 - Nancy 04:00
08 - O Fortuna 03:50
09 - Morningstar 04:03
10 - Beyond Your Fingertips 03:33
11 - (320)320-5553 2 03:44
─────
41:36 min
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/bobband
2008 rang in as the year of bob. For more than a decade, middle
school mates Adam Smith and Matt Santoro have sung, strummed,
banged and riffed through a plethora of sounds and styles before
finally settling on an intense rock feel with edge and energy
which has led to hundreds of fans at shows, support from
Anheuser-Busch, and an album produced by a legendary rock veteran.
bob cohered into its current sound after years of guitarist Smith
and frontman Santoro trying out different arrangements and
potential bandmates, finally finding Drew Recny to sit behind the
kit and Carl Schmeig to keep rhythm on bass. After a few years of
developing a large D.C. area fan base, the band started spreading
its live shows out across multiple states along the mid-eastern
seaboard.
It was last fall, when on a whim, the band contacted renowned
producer Garth Richardson who has worked with the likes of Red Hot
Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine. Richardson liked what
he heard and invited the guys up to Vancouver to spend December
and January recording the bandÆs first full-length album in his
studio.
ôIt was the best decision we ever made,ö Adam says. ôIt was
intimidating as hell to walk in GarthÆs office and see all these
platinum records around. What was really amazing was that Garth
was able to take our sound and somehow make it even more bob. He
got an amazing dynamic going between us.ö
The band spent 12 to 15 hours a day for a month in the studio with
Richardson, taking only a well-deserved half day on New YearÆs
Eve. ôIt was a life-changing experience,ö according to Matt.
ôGarth was unbelievable in the way he knew how to handle everybody
and the best way to get everything out of me that I had and
everything out of everyone else. It was a hell of an experience.ö
The band was even fortunate enough to experience a drop-in by a
buddy of RichardsonÆs, Dave ôRaveö Ogilvie. The Skinny Puppy and
Marilyn Manson producer liked the band so much, he decided to get
in on the bob action and helped produce one of the albumÆs tracks,
ôBusted Dreams.ö
As for the album itself, ôbbbobö features 11 tracks of the
unadulterated, unfiltered, raw energy that is bob.
ôI think this album is kind of a throwback to what rock used to
be,ö Matt says. ôI think rock should have an edge and
aggressiveness to it, and I think the underlying theme in our
music is basically thumbing your nose at authority or anything
that tries to push you in any one direction. A lot of songs come
back to being about doing what you want no matter what the fuck
people want to say.ö