Groovecifer

My name is Stephen Edward Bennett and I am from Pennsylvania and Kentucky in the United States of America. My music is a mix of groovy improvisations, tightly-wound instrumentals, and quirky, playfully subversive pop rock songs. I am currently recording overdubs on a new Groovecifer album, ten tracks, the bass and drums are complete and all of the lyrics are written.

I've been influenced by many different expressions of music. From hits of the 50s and 60s to Kiss and Queen, Billy Joel and Styx to The Beatles, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and on to Oingo Boingo, Tori Amos, They Might Be Giants and ace guitarists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Jeff Beck to Eminem to Phish to Infected Mushroom and everything in between. A fan of classic rock and classical music and music scores and the blues, and trip hop, and psytrance, and funk. Especially funk and all of this finds its way into my songwriting, home recordings, and performances.

In my stage career I've performed with the 2nd Infantry Division Soldier Show and 1992 Army Soldier Show as a keyboardist, bassist, and vocalist and with Jeff Liberty as Fender Rhodes player. Along with ambient artist Jamie McMenamy I was also fortunate to have worked on the musical score for three PC video games including Sanitarium and Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War, of which Mark H. Walker of Gamecenter said, "Steve Bennett's musical score—reminiscent of the Emperor of the Fading Suns soundtrack—is as haunting as it is grand."

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I'll do my best
to surprise and entertain you
or to at least

cheer ye awaayyy from the volcano...