BUSKER SOUNDCHECK - Bandmembers

       Chris Klein bass & vocals     Paul Kamp guitar & lead vocals    Dan Sopher drums & lead vocals

Chris - Fender Precision basses, Ampeg amps.  Influences: Cocteau Twins, Flaming Lips, Beatles,  Peter Gabriel.

G&L, Tokai, Ibanez, Fender, Martin, Epiphone and Gibson guitars, Marshall MkII 100W amp. Influences: Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Mould, Jeff Beck, Johnny Marr.

Tama drums, Zildjan cymbals, Fender and Martin guitars. Influences: Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Mitch Mitchell, Jimmy Chamberlain, John Bonham, Jason Gerken (Molly McGuire), Failure, Flaming Lips

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"Busker Soundcheck started playing around Chicago in 1990. At the time, we looked up to regional bands like Poster Children, Goober and the Peas, Didjits, Babes in Toyland, Smashing Pumpkins, and Material Issue because they were out there touring and putting out records and tapes. Our first tour was booked from the back of a Husker Du t-shirt (the cities and clubs).
We had grown up playing music by the Scorpions, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden in garages across the southside of Chicago and suburbia, because that's what some of our friends and older brothers did.  As a new band, we were more interested in music of the "new" generation of rock - The Smiths, Husker Du, Replacements and REM - and had absolutely no interest in late 80's early 90's "hair-pop-metal".  Early Busker sets ranged from Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" to the Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" by the Cure and REM's "Pretty Persuasion"  - with Busker originals "Your Very Own Flag", "Ready For The Fall", "Leather Jacket" and "Diamond" thrown in."

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