DRUMS...BASS...GUITAR, these elementary building blocks are what CANNING employs to articulate a distinctive voice as a whole.  From simple aspirations in the beginning…to the ability to fortify reality, there is a depth and reflection found within chosen notes as time progresses forward.  Between the intervals, an understanding of space develops that plays into an emotional grasp that can only be described as life.  The following recognized moments touch upon the origins wherein unique individual musical foundations began, thus flowing through the recent now and eventually reaching into the beyond…

         When he was five, Fritz’s father set up an old worn RadioShack stereo in the work area of the garage.  In the living room, there was also another stereo device which was not to be touched by any prying, curious hands.  Therefore, the garage naturally become the room in which Fritz would spend most of his time.  After some Sesame Street and Disney records, the goods finally arrived - ‘The Magical Mystery Tour’.  Forging deep within his ears was a music that was simply beyond compare…musical notes having this uniquely special sound to them.  To this day, as with every recording he has listened to since this day, he approaches listening openly for the possibility of a new sound or sense of feeling.  Having learned vastly from that mind opening, original experience, he claims…’That's gold for my ears.’

         Once peaking the top-forty countdown, ‘I Love Rock ‘n Roll’ was a number one radio hit for what seemed like years to Tom.  Every Sunday afternoon, his family would wake up and listen to the radio countdown in its entirety, but when that song came on he felt like Ralphie opening up the much-anticipated package containing the decoder ring. Undoubtedly saying, he was now hooked on the anticipation and raw thunder of a riff and a rock beat!  Banging on a friend's drum set at an early age, Tom had achieved some success at playing the straightforward and purely unembellished drum backbeat that drew him inward at the time.  He just couldn't get enough, thus knowing…’I had to play music forever.’

         During childhood, Ricky recalls the FM radio in the family’s living room where he found himself sitting many, many times in an armchair, next to the magical device anxiously waiting for that particular song to emit from behind the radio’s tannish brown mesh cover.  ‘Standing in the rain, with his head hung low…Couldn’t get a ticket, it was a sold-out show…’ emulated from behind the radio's meshed faceplate.  ‘I fell in love with it,’ Ricky admits.  The syncopated guitar, those drums pounding their rhythms, along with that blistering vocal of determination, Ricky would be propelled into the groove...  ‘He heard one guitar’…and was hooked for life.

         CANNING is excited to bring the music to the people and around the world.  In the end, they are simply a live band where on stage the heights of excitement, experimentation and tomfoolery can be experienced by both the audience and for the three core members...Fritz, Tom & Ricky.  As for the curious listeners taking a deeper dive, a true connection can be made by experiencing the depths and devotion found within the assault, along with the gentle caresses of a live show.  CANNING deems to explore their music and portray a song in its rightful place, at least for that given moment.  Throughout the years, having noticed that many times they do not play the song, moreover, with the elasticity of time...the songs play the band…

         Not setting any absrudly extensive goals or resolutions, but to simply continue as a whole as CANNING rolls into the ever-present days and years ahead. Reaching out and affecting those around with positivity rather than negativity, including themselves.  Experiencing the wonders of a moment and the people around for the inspiration that they bring. Hopefully also, stopping to appreciate, or at least slowing down enough to realize the beauty that can be found within and all around...

_ The Present _

_ The Future _

_Influences_

FRITZ ARMSTRONG

Bass / Vocals

CANNING Bassist - Fritz Armstrong’s smiling profile image at CanningMusic

TOM MILLER

Drums

CANNING Drummer - Tom Miller’s grinning profile image at CanningMusic

RICKY CANNING

Guitar / Vocals

CANNING Guitarist - Ricky Canning’s elated profile image at CanningMusic

Fritz_

CANNING bass player Fritz Armstrong at CanningMusic simply smiling rather happily facing directly into the camera

_Tom

CANNING drummer Tom Miller at CanningMusic painting a picture looking intently at the brush touching canvas

Ricky_

CANNING guitar player Ricky Canning at CanningMusic going up an escalator looking right with red hair

Beatles, Phish, Electronica, Technical Death Metal, Sabbath, Eazy E

Cream, Dead, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Aphex Twin, Phish, Radiohead

Page, Bjork, Liszt, Stevie Ray, de Lucia, Allmans, Weir, Mahler, Houser, Tool, Amos, Zappa, Buckley, Garcia, Clapton, McLaughlin

CANNING artist GIF image of Fritz the bassist, Ricky the guitarist & Tom the percussionist of CanningMusic CANNING profile series of photographic images of Ricky in front of a brick wall at CanningMusic with short red hair Ricky plays an amber burst Yamaha electrical classical guitar with nylon strings at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley CA USA CANNING profile photo progression of Tom in front of a brick wall at CanningMusic with skull cap and sunglasses on his head Ricky plays a green Samick six string acoustic guitar at a little venue in the Richmond district of San Francisco CA USA CANNING profile photo collection of Fritz in front of a brick wall at CanningMusic with regular glasses and a skull cap CANNING band GIF photo of Ricky the guitar player, Tom the drummer and Fritz the bass player at CanningMusic

Influentiality & Historicizing

Official trademarked logo graphic for CanningMusic CANNING branding logo with a montage of many pictures inside of the character outlines which form the band name

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