ZOOM ROOM BAND

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Welcome to the Zoom Room Band's blog!

Our second album "CAVE ART" has just been released and is available on Napster, iTunes, and Amazon mp3! Thanks to our fans in Great Britain for being the first to download our songs. We greatly appreciate it! Clicking on the artwork to your right will take you to the Cave Art CD as well as songs from our first CD.

PS: I went back and added the song lyrics for "Cave Art" to our blog. Scroll down and you'll find them.

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What We're About

Our band is strongly influenced by the music of Van Morrison, the Beatles, Bad Company, Procol Harem, and Lousy Little Gods. Our style is pop roots rock, but we pretty much do whatever we please.

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Who Are These Guys

Greg: Engineer/mix/mastering -- musician/singer/songwriter -- drum programs/keyboard/ all the different guitars -- Greg played every instrument, with exceptions noted below. He never ceases to impress me.
Greg attended University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, played bass guitar in bands in the area and then moved to the West Coast and played professionally with various groups, to include Lousy Little Gods.

Nick: Singer/songwriter/keyboard/guitarist -- song vocal arranger. Nick went to Lawrence after high school and played in a band or two, did the rock music scene. In 2009 he teamed up with Greg and Roberta.

Roberta: Greg's girlfriend. That's me. I manage the office stuff (and do this blog and the facebook page for the band), do the artwork on the CDs, etc., and feed Ozzie.

Song lyrics for Cave Art (click on picture to enlarge)

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Other Stuff

All songs are our own originals and COPYRIGHTED through the Library of Congress Copyright Office with the exception of "Can't Wait for the Day" which we borrowed with permission from Randy Davis.

ZRB uses Bison Optical Disc, down in the Orlando Florida area, to mass produce our hard copy promo CDs. The people at Bison are great to work with, the price is decent, and our CDs look and sound really great. Just wanted to put in a word for them because they did us right.

Next time you're in Facebook, pop over to "Zoom Room Band." Check us out! We just recently started it up and need more fans to LIKE us so we can get the perks. I'll probably never send any comments out unless something really crazy happens like we sell a million songs and really want to brag about it, so don't worry about me cluttering up your facebook page.

Contact the band: zoom@kc.rr.com

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THE SONGS ON "CAVE ART"
(We've had a few people ask about this, so here's who wrote what and sings what and plays what, and if you don't care then that's okay too).

Greg sings Nick's song "I Will Be There." Tammy Dominguez does the harmony vocals on one quick line. (Tammy has a really good voice, and is always happy to come over to the studio when we need some female background vocals.) Our good friend and eclectic singer/guitarist Dale Didde added harmonica, and Nick did the piano solo.

Nick sings "One Candle," co-written by Nick and Roberta, features Rick Weller (Lousy Little Gods) on nylon guitar. Nick plays the steady rhythm acoustic guitar.

Greg sings "Man Without a Friend." Nick wrote and performed this one some years ago as a ballad. Greg revamped the feel into a romping acoustic gallop. Mike Birmingham, inductee to the Kansas Music Hall of Fame, composed the first solo on this song collaborating with Greg. The final string section was composed years ago by keyboardist Adam Geiger, good friend of Nick and Greg, excellent musician, and soldier in arms who died much too young (we miss you, brother). He's mentioned in the third verse of "Mr. K."

Nick sings his song "Reputation," and plays lead searing guitar; this is a fan favorite.

Greg wrote and sings "Song for Richard," in memory of an unforgettable good friend. Just a sweet thoughtful song.

Greg wrote and sings "All on our Own" as a tribute to his mother Louris. Laurie Morvan (of the west coast Laurie Morvan Band, one of the best up and coming blues bands in the country) plays the awesome guitar solo on this song, with her band member Pat Morvan contributing bass composition/arrangement; Mark Whiteaker composed and plays the backing guitar outro.

Nick wrote "Love Me When" one afternoon in his basement, as a bluegrass tune. The musical family of Jeff Boyer (mandolin), Liz Boyer (banjo), and Matt Boyer (violin) makes this lively, fun little song a fan favorite. Tammy does a great job on harmony vocals with Nick . Nick plays rhythm Alvarez acoustic.

Greg sings "Understanding," that he wrote. Here again he plays all instruments.

Greg sings his song "Fortunate Find," that he wrote from the depths of his heart, a truly beautiful song about finding that perfect someone against impossible odds. Mark Whiteaker plays on some of the electric guitar solo on this one.

Nick sings his clear fan favorite "Mr. K," another social statement. Piano-driven with a guitar outro, this song builds up until it rocks, so turn it up. Greg plays every sound you hear on this one, and did a super job.

The CD cover design idea came to Greg one night in a very strange dream. He mentioned it to Roberta the next morning when they woke up and she got out her craft paints and a crumpled up grocery sack and created the design you see here. The studio we trudge off to is very cave-like, no windows, hence the name. We all think it's quite a clever design. And well, we couldn't think of anything else.

If there's anything else you want to know, ask me.