The Bobby Lindstrom Band 2006:
Bio
Mike Carrillo - Drums / Vocals
Steady as they come, Mikes solid beat has been heard in the music of Buddy Guy, Bo Diddly, John Lee Hooker, The Coasters and The Drifters. Enough said.
David Cooper - Bass / Vocals
This “permanently fixed pocket“ bassist and extraordinary vocalists talents’ have put him in some very prestigous company, i.e. Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo, Steppenwolf, Patty Austin, Buddy Owens, The Tubes among others. Feel it now?
This band is destined for big things, and you are invited along for the ride.
The Bobby Lindstrom Band: (A Lick And A Promise)
Bobby Lindstrom - Guitars, bass, drums, lead and backing vocals
Bobby Lindstrom is blues influenced rocker who has been singing and playing for over three decades. He's performed all over the west coast with artists such as Peter Albin and Peter Walsh of Big Brother & the Holding Co., Clarence Clemmens, Henry Vestine, Jay "Bird" Koder, Paul Biondi; Opened for Canned Heat, Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers, The Rocket 88's, and more recently Lloyd Jones and Carlos Guitarlos, to name a few. His debut release in 2004, "A Lick and a Promise", produced by Sam Densmore, is rich in Beatlesque songcraft and inspired electric guitar playing that falls somewhere between Billy Gibbons boogie and Rolling Stones grit.
This CD is Bobby's songwriting debut, and was recorded mostly in two-hour intervals, when his mother was still alive because thats all the longer he could leave her at a time.
The songs' origins range from 1988 to 2002, and were written in various locations on the west coast of the United States.
Paul Biondi - Saxophones
Paul has played with Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis, David Lee Roth, Tower of Power, Johnny Lang, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, and many others...
http://www.giftedchildmusic.com/Pauljbiondi
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Sam Densmore - Producer, bass, backing vocals
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Roy Eikamp - Drums
Doug Randall - Keyboards, guidance, inspiration
I would like, at this time to thank the late great Doug Randall for his contributions to the making of this CD, his supreme confidence and supremer encouragement. Doug's keyboard parts took a total of maybe 2 1/2 hrs to record without rehearsal. As many of you already know, "A Lick And A Promise" is dedicated to him. On the way to Sam Densmore's studio, Doug informed me that most musicians don't have what it takes to "make it", but I do! He was very serious, which didn't happen too much with Doug, and I mean that in the VERY best way. (He once changed his pants in my driveway in broad daylight as casually as breathing.) Like Carlos licking his fork and then his knife in the middle of Roger's Zoo during a break...snicker...Anyway I tried to answer Doug with rationalities and excuses, and he told me to be quiet and listen. He then repeated himself, and added that it IS MY job to "make it" for the rest of what he called "us musicians who aren't good enough"! Then 3 days after the Florence Brews, Blues and Chowder Festival, Doug got in a small airplane and flew back to San Diego by himself for a few gigs in his old stomping grounds. He was hit by a student pilot while landing and passed away. Now you know why I dedicate this to him. It was like God said those things to me. Here's to you, Doug! I will always love you, and I will do my very best to "make it".
John Densmore - Backing vocals, Co-production
Cynthia Leaf - Violin
Tee Palmer - Backing vocals
Donna Pouliot - Backing vocals
Laura Densmore - Backing vocals