Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum

When electric guitars ruled the earth…™

Ben Rogers was listening, learning and stealing everything he could from Django Reinhardt, Hank B. Marvin, Duane Eddy, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, JJ Cale and Peter Green. Having now left the primordial ooze, he’s ready to unleash his fearful blend of surf/gypsy/Tarantino rock solid pulp guitar truth and fiction to the masses. Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum is a trio made up of electric guitar, bass and drums and features reverb drenched guitar music that echoes some of the best work of The Shadows, Ventures and Surfaris, but with an extreme left turn towards the surreal. All done up with an Aussie accent.

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Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum is a bag of mixed nuts and includes:

Ben Rogers……Guitarist / Songwriter
Favourites:
1. Artist Antoni Gaudi
2. Song/recording Almost anything by Django Reinhardt, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, At the River by Groove Armada
3. Guitarists Django Reinhardt, Hank B Marvin, Duane Eddy, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, JJ Cale, Peter Green, Danny Gatton.
4. Drink Don’t mind if I do!
5. Food Breakfast cereal
6. Film The Day the Earth Stood Still, Orphée.
7. Book Slaughterhouse Five
8. Car 1955 Ford Customline
9. Item of apparel Omega watch given to me by Warwick Edwards, a stockman/bush poet in Western Australia
10. Plant Eucalyptus Macrocarpa (Mottlecah or Rose of the West)

Guilty pleasure: Finding grammatical errors in published material
Irrational dislike: Midgets in films
Greatest delight: Playing a good gig

Nikki Scarlett….. Bassist / International Woman of Mystery
Favourites:
1. Artist: M.C. Escher
2. Song/recording: "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman (live at Carnegie Hall)
3. Bassists: Paul Chambers, Edgar Meyer, Slam Stewart
4. Drink: Champagne (or equivalent) with occasional flashbacks to Bundy and Coke and a previous life
5. Films: "My Fair Lady", “A New Leaf”
6. Books: "David Copperfield", "Harry Potter" (suggests fixation with young men)
7. Cars: R-series Valiant and Volvo P1800, but realistically, anything that will accommodate a double bass (i.e., large box on wheels)
8. Item of apparel: Purple boots

Guilty pleasure: Eating crisps in bed (this is always regretted later)
Irrational dislike: Headless electric basses, ti-tree brush fences
Greatest delight: Seeing someone trip up (not fall, just trip)

Denis Close …….Drummer / Percussionist
Favourites:
1. Song/recording: “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “Dimming of the Day”, “Come Sunday”
2. Drummers: Ringo Starr, Al Jackson Jr, Zigaboo Modeliste, Tony Williams
3. Drink: Coopers Stout, Colombian coffee
4. Food Mexican, Sri Lankan (all vegetarian versions)
5. Films: “Withnail and I”, “Barry Lyndon”, “The Party”
6. Books: “Cien años de Soledad”, “Another Roadside Attraction”, “Red Dog”
7. Cars: 1960s Jaguars 8. Possession: Collection of shrunken heads

Guilty pleasure: Accordions
Irrational dislike: Mozart
Greatest delight: Having a recording session sound good the next day.

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