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The Weathercocks
Band
Band Members
Mark Zug
Guitarist, Recording Engineer
Mark Zug, has been playing lead guitar since he was teen in a garage band. However, the pull to become a freelance illustrator was greater and Zug has made his living as a self-employed artist in the fantasy and science fiction genre for 30 years.
Mark's virtuosic and intuitive abilities on the electric guitar are fairly supernatural. He is also the sound engineer and recording expert for our originals, adding a great deal of experience to the arrangement of the song material.
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Influences: Rush, Led Zeppelin, Clapton, Yes, Kansas
Kristin Kest
Vocalist, Keyboardist, Songwriter
Kristin Kest is the keyboardist and lead singer for the band. Kristin's background in music started with piano lessons when she was 10 from an aunt who is a concert pianist and opera singer. Kest brings her inner marching band geek and theater set design experience to bear on the group's aesthetic for the composing and writing of original music.
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Kest is a freelance artist -- illustrator and ceramist. She is formerly a college professor of Illustration.
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Influences: The Police, The Cure, E.L.O., The Moody Blues, Queen
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Eric Winter
Electronic Drums/ Percussion
Eric started playing piano at an early age and spent most of his years with electronic keyboards as his primary musical instrument. Over the past decade he has been pursuing a previously untapped interest in various forms of acoustic and electronic drums and percussion. His current profession as an "IT Guy" along with the years in the world of MIDI and synthesized music have naturally lead him towards the use of electronic drums as his instrument of choice when working in a band setting. While primarily using customary drum sounds he likes to mix things up by using different virtual drum pieces to fit the mood of a particular song.
Influences: Kansas, Spock's Beard, Eddie Jobson, Dream Theater, Pat Metheny
