BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.yoshis.com/oakland//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.5// X-WR-CALNAME:www.yoshis.com/oakland X-WR-CALDESC:www.yoshis.com/oakland X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130522T213331CEST-5141jsGvcz@www.yoshis.com/oakland DTSTAMP:20130522T190531Z DESCRIPTION:\nRENE ESCOVEDO &\; THE FUSE is a band based out of the The East Bay. It is a powerful Instrumental band\, Drums\, Bass\, Guitar\, Key s &\; Sax. This bands influences are many and massive\, the founding me mber and drummer René\; Escovedo comes from a Latin music dynasty. R ené\; has put together a great band and you can easily see how this is his love. His Band consists of great local artist from the greater east bay area. Bobby Simcox/Lead Guitar\, Ben Reyes/Keyboards\, Dave Hermocill o/Bass Guitar &\; John Douglas/Saxophone.\nAt the age of five years old \, René\; started learning basic rudiments in grade school.\nFor the next few years René\; spent allot of time practicing until he was n ine years old\, when he then received his first jazz drum kit.\nAt that ti me René\; started listening and learning to play what ever music was popular at the time\, most of which was what ever his Uncles where doing. René\; was very fortunate to be raised in a great musical family\, a nd growing up with his cousins. It also allowed him to be influenced by so me of the greatest music of that time and also having experienced first ha nd some of the bands and musicians to come through the Bay Area.\nRen&eacu te\; was lucky enough to see a lot of acts perform up close on the same st ages he would later perform on him self. Such venues where the Greek Theat er\, The Fillmore and of course Yoshi's.\nAs a self taught musician Ren&ea cute\; spent his younger years listing and learning as many styles of musi c as possible. Having been born into what would soon be a family full of g reat drummers and percussionist\, René\; new at a very early age tha t drumming was in his blood and the overwhelming need to play drums was cu rsing through his veins.\nGrowing up as a drummer in the post "\;Billy "\;\, "\;Tony"\;\, Buddy"\;\, "\;Steve"\;\, "\ ;Peter"\;\, "\;Vinnie"\; landscape of fusion and jazz\, its ea sy to think that everything has already been done. What could possibly top the acid jazz and progressive fusion explosion.\nFor the Oaktown-bred dru mmer\, the answer is his approach based on melodic timbre\, basic grooves\ , emotional and powerful performances.\nFor the next several years Ren&eac ute\; did a lot of woodshedding\, self learning the best ways of playing s ome of the hardest songs\, by some of the best drummers around at the time .\nHe continued to work on developing the skills needed for playing more o f a melodic style with a direct approach to using basic fundamentals towar ds any and all genres of music.\nFor quite some time now René\; has been playing much more aggressive styles of music and started exploring dr ums as a instrument of space dynamics and intensity.\nHe then grew from be ing a stylistic drummer\, to becoming a drummer that learned how too expre ss his musical thoughts effectively. DTSTART:20121004T200000 DTEND:20121004T220000 DURATION:PT3H LOCATION:Oakland SUMMARY:RENÉ ESCOVEDO AND THE FUSE New CD Release END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR