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"The thing Be Brave Bold Robot has that few other bands have is a killer sense of chemistry.
Dean Haakenson sings in a wavering, unsure voice—full nerves and intellect—as Brian Jackson (keys) watches him, trying to figure out what the hell he’s going to do next. Is Haakenson going to sing the next verse like a regular musician, or will he stop playing altogether and start in on a neurotic diatribe like a man with a microphone and too much on his mind? Either way is fine with the audience.
As Haakenson rambles happily through fully-endearing, mostly expository songs, Heather Phillips sings in the background while seemingly trying to choke back laughter. With each BBBR show, one gets the feeling it must be hard to concentrate with Haakenson in your band.
But that’s not to say BBBR isn’t serious; in fact, it’s their lack of seriousness that makes them so damned earnest. Their jovial personal interplay carries over into the communication of their instruments, which is at once playful and complex; watching BBBR is akin to watching a group of drunk hummingbirds. And Haakenson, under a thin sheet of madness, displays an interesting voice and a profound set of lyrics—whether sung, muttered or screamed out loud—that resonates. Think Dave Matthews with a few espressos and a glorious sense of humor.
As a whole, there’s a certain laziness to BBBR songs, yet they don't slouch; they’re simply reserved and they know how to make light of any situation. And all that earnest joy balances quite nicely, especially in a room full of very serious people."- Josh Fernandez, Sacramento News and Review, June 2008
I hope this finds you well. This is the overused and lazily unattractive myspace profile for the band Be Brave Bold Robot. Hailing from Sacramento, California, Be Brave Bold Robot is a collection of people, ranging from One (1) to Eight (8), who are known to joyfully weep wispy ghost tears of music in any given area where they might happen to find themselves being allowed to be, for the enjoyment of people who might happen to be mulling around said given area, wondering what to do with themselves for that particular time being.REMEMBER. WE ALL WANT TO BE LOVED.Remember that you are Mysterious and Special, and it is in your very nature to act like it.
Exercise your imagination. Enterprise your flatulation.BBBR Merchandise at www.cafepress.com/boldrobot . I can change any images around on the cafepress merchandise on the cafepress website, if you would like me to Thanks again and again and again, for listening and working hard at being a good person, if that's what you are doing. If that's not what you are doing, good job at making life interesting and challenging, and try to remember to say "Thank you" once in a while. Read the Blogs! there's some okay thoughtful writing in there!
THE FOLLOWING IS A LOVE LETTER FROM A FRIEND:
"Dean Haakenson is the heart of Be Brave Bold Robot, which is very appopriate because he may very well be the human personification of Love. If you've seen him play live then you know that Dean lays it all on the very sweaty line everytime he picks up his guitar and gets behind the microphone. There's nothing artificial there, and there's nothing artificial on the Be Brave Bold Robot self-titled release either. It's a punk-folk-rock-soul collision echoing Elliot Smith, Counting Crows, and whoever it was that sang Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter, Paul & Mary). Lyrics are everywhere, sometimes belted out, sometimes delivered as stilted half-raps, and they are worth listening to. If you don't know Dean Haakenson before you listen to this record, you will after. Melodically, this album does nod occassionally to pop sensibilities (you mave even hear a chorus or two or three), but it never approaches Mayer-esque song construction, which from my point of view is a good thing. Fear not though, there is always a beat to dance to. All in all, the record is a product of love, and love seems to make everything okay. You don't often find a banjo, vibraphone, cello, stand-up bass, and clarinet (or was that a bassoon?) all comfortably nestled on the same record."- Eric BourneHere's a Great Word:POGONOTROPHY = Cultivation of a beard; beard-growing.
"Do not — as a British journalist did some years ago — confuse this useful word with pogonotomy. Both originate in the Greek word pogon, a beard, but the latter ends in –tomia, cutting, and so is the word for trimming one’s beard, or shaving, the exact opposite of the writer’s intention. Pogonotrophy, on the other hand, ends with Greek trophe, nourishment, so its literal sense is “beard feeding”. Neither word is what you might call common; they usually appear only when somebody is writing in a mock-pompous, tongue-in-cheek way. Other words in pogon include pogonic, pertaining to a beard, and Pogonophora, the systematic name for a group of deep-sea worms; their name actually means “beard bearer”, which is odd, since they don’t have mouths to cultivate them around." - Michael Quinion
