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Rick Gross
VOCALS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, ELECTRIC GUITAR, DRUMS, BASS, KEYBOARDS/SYNTHESIZERS, BLUES HARP/HARMONICA
Composition, Production, and Performance of all lyrics and music for the album "JOY" by Rick Gross, tenstring.com, inc. All Rights Reserved
Education
Oregon State University:
Music Theory one year
(3 course sequence)
Introduction to Jazz
History of Rock and Roll
History of American Music
Music for the Listener
Introduction to Global Music
MBA
(Rick teaches for Portland State University)
Personal one-on one Vocal tutoring by Mark Bosnian of Body and Soul
Musical Experience
Rick started music at an early age, playing clarinet at age 8 and taking one-on-one lessons from a locally known composer named Roy Jonstano. As a kid, he traveled all over the state of Georgia performing in a band in front of schools for many years, and each time when the band came to Rick's school, he would perform solo in front of the whole school as part of the performance. (It was customary for whoever attended a school where the band was performing to do a solo for their own school) Rick has been performing live music since 1984 when he started out playing keyboards in Seeking Will. He soon became lead guitarist and lead vocalist, and played at picnics, parties, restaurants, and talent shows. The band later evolved into a more diverse, contemporary group named Scorpio Bridge. Scorpio Bridge played at bars and parties. After Scorpio Bridge, Rick auditioned as lead vocalist in Hall of Fame and was hired July, 1992. On July 27, 1992, Hall of Fame performed at Elis in downtown Portland, OR and won bookings through Pacific Talent into 1993. Hall of Fame performed part of the local circuit that way at places like Elis, Cisco & Ponchos, Key Largo, and The Moosehead. Later in the '90's, Rick played guitar and Keyboards along with lead and backup vocals in Portland's Rock band "Hotfoot" playing clubs around the area and along the coast.
Song Info
Track Files
Story behind the song
Lyrics
8
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Comments
6
Jiri Hajek - composer
Feb 07, 2009
Beautiful record, Rick, your voice is very suggestive!! Jiri
Electric Shadow
Mar 14, 2008
Excellent song,great writing, vox and production!
Peace...
~ES~
VMP (USA)
Mar 08, 2008
Great tune, love the keys, drums, guitar, and vocal work, exciting!
Bill Wright
Dec 14, 2007
Excellent song, Rick. Nice Bowie sound on this one! ;)
newwine
Dec 07, 2007
peace Rick,
your ref to Is. : - ) now that is a deep word. saw a movie on the Fed Reserve & its founders the other night. if people only knew, but... wow, i better leave the comment short, hehe. keep up the good works & thnx 4 the music.
bBlsd bWl pRr
Sure does look like money talks both in Canada and the Us the bigger your corporation the more say you got...