Chuck Bazemore
Johnny Bamboo
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Chuck Bazemore
John Eorio Bio :
My music began as a young child , always singing along with the radio . I was 9 when The Beatles came to America and sang on the Ed Sullivan Show . I would play air guitar in front of the mirror while blasting the music . I asked my parents to please buy me a Beatles wig .
When I was 12 , my friends came to my house and heard me singing “ I am a Rock ” by Simon and Garfunkel . They told me I had a fantastic voice and that I should be singing in a band . I started to put together my own drum set with different pieces . At the age of 13 , after my father saw how serious I was about playing , he bought me a drum set . I really liked singing , but was very shy . I saw a drummer who also sang and I figured I could hide behind the drum set and sing because I was too shy to sing up front . A few friends joined together and we created the group “ Aurora Borealis ”. We would play at the youth center and my mother always came out to watch me perform .
I took a break from music for quite a few years . Between raising a son and running my own business , I was quite busy . I had a drum set that I would bang on occasionally , but didn ’ t really have the time to take in seriously . Life sometimes moves you in different directions , but I always had a dream of making my own album someday .
After I sold my last business , I took some time off and I did a lot of traveling . I also started playing the drums again when I was around 48 years old . I was in a band and someone said I was the worse person in the band . That gave me determination to improve myself . I went to drum seminars and
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practiced long and hard . I wanted to be a great drummer and I knew I could be . The next time that person came to hear us play , he said I was the best asset to the band .
I have my own band called T . H . R . O . G . We play classic rock and top 40 ’ s . We haven ’ t really played out much because I was focusing on recording my own music . I have also drummed for several other bands . I picked up a
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