![]() ![]() "I feel like we're having fun out there and that translates to the crowd," he said. Woodruff said attendees can expect a lot of energy and smiles from the band on stage. The current lineup includes keyboardist Kevin Bong, drummer Kevin Offitzer and bassist Tomy Suliman. He recruited a full band to help record his fourth album, "The Reprise Sessions," and Stick Figure was no longer just a solo project. The area was a hotbed for reggae, ska and dub music, and Woodruff found it much easier to find like-minded musicians to play and jam with. Woodruff always had California dreams growing up in the Boston area, and eventually made the move to San Diego in 2009. Eventually I started liking it and it progressed from there." I didn't know anyone that wanted to sing on my tracks. I didn't even really want to play the stuff for people. "I never really considered myself a singer," he said. Woodruff became the vocalist for Stick Figure first by necessity and slowly gained confidence. In 2006, Woodruff released "The Sound of My Addiction." Two years later, his sophomore effort, "Burnin' Ocean" started to gain recognition nationally in the reggae scene. (The tracks) weren't really meant to be released to the public."īut eventually they were, as Woodruff produced four albums over a five-year span. I would just write songs completely through improvisation and even came up with these changes in my head. I'd play the drums all of the way through in one track. ![]() "When I got the 16-track, I didn't know what I was going to do," he said. He learned to play the bass, carefully layering the tracks while providing all of the instrumentation. His musical evolution was forged by necessity and his wish to maximize his one-man sound as he upgraded to 16-track recorder. "I started on a drum set and then guitar." "I was always tapping on things at school," he said. Woodruff says he was rhythmically inclined even before he took up music. Woodruff and Stick Figure will headline February's First Tap this Thursday at Bear Tooth Theatrepub. When he submitted one of his own songs to a popular Sublime archive website to positive reviews, Stick Figure was born.įor years, Stick Figure was Woodruff's personal project, but has now grown into a four-piece band with five albums under its belt. Woodruff wasn't dissuaded, and began putting down tracks himself on a small 4-track recorder. I wanted to do the reggae thing, but my friends all played metal and harder stuff." "I wanted to make music that sounded like these guys (I listened to)," he said. Growing up in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in the mid-1990s, Scott Woodruff started to gravitate toward West Coast ska and reggae bands like Sublime and Slightly Stoopid.īut when Woodruff decided to try his hand playing the music himself, he had a hard time finding any cohorts to join him. Updated: SeptemPublished: February 5, 2015 ![]()
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