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Name
Ryan Meyers
Instrument
Guitar, vocals, magic capos
Hometown
Hattiesburg, MS
Birthday
May 24, 1983
Favorite artists/bands
Goo Goo Dolls, Matt Wertz, Hem, Stevie Wonder, Ryan Adams, Griffin House, Bebo Norman, Andrew Osenga (the Normals), Nichole Nordeman
Favorite movies
The Matrix, I heart Huckabees, The Sandlot, Hook, Pretty much any Disney movie, Mallrats, Here in America, Good Will Hunting, This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Forrest Gump, a million others…
Favorite TV Shows
OK, TV Geekery time… 24, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, The 4400, How I Met Your Mother, Gilmore Girls (yes, I admit it), Saved, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Deadwood, Smallville, Prison Break, My Name is Earl, Eureka… What’s scary is that those are the ones I ALWAYS watch…
Favorite RMB song to play live
Chasing After Home
Favorite line in an RMB Song
“I am a green-thumb son-of-sailor going out against the waves of a storm, and I’m afraid of falling over but I’m afraid of never getting over more.” (Boy)
Gear
Seagull acoustic (tuned 1.5 steps down) through a Boss Tuner Pedal, through an L.R. Baggs Paracoustic DI. Shure Beta 57a microphone, 2 Kyser Caps (1 custom cut to hold only the A, D, & G strings), Jim Dunlop 46 Nylon picks.
Notable Quote
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
“A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say ‘This is not just.’ The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, ‘This way of settling differences is not just.’ This business of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
“America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
MySpace
myspace.com/ryanmeyersband
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