Meet the band
Bob Augustine
Bob plays lead and rhythm guitar, and loves the Rock/Metal genres best. Main musical influences are Rush, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Joe Satriani, Metallica and Megadeth. Bob works full-time in the Transportation Industry, but does have formal training in music theory, improvisational jazz and classical guitar. Bob is also an avid surfer and motorcyclist.
Chip Filbry
Chip plays lead and rhythm guitars, and grew up with SoCal surf music. Chip has worked in the music industry since 2005, initially for DW Drums for 2 years and subsequently with Tom Anderson Guitars since 2007, where he is still currently employed part-time (and part-time retired!). Chances are good if you bought or played an Anderson in the last 10 years you are playing pickups wound by Chip!
Wayne Phillipp
Wayne Phillipp
Wayne plays bass and has been playing for over 30 years. He started playing after watching the Monkees' 20th Anniversary marathon on MTV in 1986 and is influenced by 60’s music as well as 70’s prog rock and power pop bands from 70s through the 90s. Wayne in originally from New Jersey and lived there until the early 2000’s playing bass and guitar in several bands before moving west
Rick Zavadil
Wayne Phillipp
Rick grew up in the Midwest in Grosse Ile, Michigan and was influenced by the unmistakable and famous Detroit Motown sound. He has been singing since the age of nine and enjoys various musical genres. Rick is an accomplished and awarded singer, whose former bands include: Third Estate, Chronic Stew, Kosmic Haze, Straight Up, The Mystery B
Rick grew up in the Midwest in Grosse Ile, Michigan and was influenced by the unmistakable and famous Detroit Motown sound. He has been singing since the age of nine and enjoys various musical genres. Rick is an accomplished and awarded singer, whose former bands include: Third Estate, Chronic Stew, Kosmic Haze, Straight Up, The Mystery Band, AudioUnity, Rockit Again and The Simi Rat Pack.
Rick is a school counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
His experience in the mental health field extends to incarcerated individuals and their families in juvenile facilities. He received the 2019 Employee of the Year at Bedell Elementary School in Santa Paula, where he is known as ‘Mr. Rick’, and he was the February 2013 employee of the quarter for the Ventura County Juvenile Justice in Oxnard. For over 2 years, Rick volunteered as a Youth Pastor for middle and high school students at the Camarillo Church of the Nazarene. As an Eagle Scout and church member, he has gained a respect and a servant’s heart for all people.
If you know Rick, you may not recognize him on stage as he loves to transform into a performer like no other, strictly for the express purpose of your entertainment!
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Jim Strong
Jim’s been playing guitar and keys in cover and original bands for around 40 years. He started out playing classical guitar and branched out to British prog rock before settling on playing anything/everything people want to hear.
Bradon Crews
Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Brandon has been playing drums on and off since the early ‘80’s. Early influences ranged from Yes to Iron Maiden and everything in between. He’s enjoyed writing originals with numerous bands in Rock and Blues genres as well as performing for years in a SoCal rock cover band Feedback, which played
Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Brandon has been playing drums on and off since the early ‘80’s. Early influences ranged from Yes to Iron Maiden and everything in between. He’s enjoyed writing originals with numerous bands in Rock and Blues genres as well as performing for years in a SoCal rock cover band Feedback, which played hits from the 60’s-2000’s. Brandon enjoys jamming with local bands whenever he can, but when he’s home he's playing to bands like Failure, Sevendust, Tremonti and Mammoth.