Bio:

David Bennett was born the eldest brother to his identical twin, Christopher Bennett (AKA Rabbit). He is exactly one minute older than his brother and has no other siblings. David's childhood seemed simple enough at first. He and his brother shared everything, including the same room for the majority of their childhood. He had enough room to let his creative juices flow and develop, and all the art supplies, model airplanes, and MS DOS computer games that Christmases and his birthdays could provide.

Eventually David entered high school. He was working towards his A+ Certification in computers and looking towards becoming an IT Technician. A sudden (but possibly long overdue) divorce between his parents turned David's life upside down during his Junior year. The divorce didn't go well between parents.

Luckily things started to go right again. David felt a new sense of freedom, and quickly became more social at school. He joined the drama department, started to learn how to play guitar, and made new friends.

David graduated high school with honors and had a full year of school plays under his belt. He immediately got a job working as a Data Entry personnel at his father's work and started going to Grossmont College. David auditioned for productions at the college and began to take a multitude of general education classes and Theatre Arts classes. He landed roles every semester, including a few leads. David's job as a Data Entry personnel quickly changed to that of an IT Technician, Graphic Designer, and Print Operator once his and his brother's already developed art & technological skills became realized by the company.

David met Jerry Hager for the first time when he took his Beginning Acting class at the college. David knew of Jerry's "miming" down at Seaport Village and even visited his professor a few times while he was performing. It wasn't until his brother Chris took Jerry's mime class, and recommend that he take it with him again the following year, that David was introduced to the beauty of the art of mime and movement.

Things escalated fairly quickly and mime became a passion for him and his brother, along with their newly acquired friends Jon Sprague and Erin Burke. Steam Powered Giraffe started at the beginning of the second time David took Jerry's mime class. He wanted to incorporate playing music into the robot act, so his guitar playing skills, along with Jon's became the backbone of the act almost immediately in conceptual stages.
David is currently performing and working with Steam Powered Giraffe on a daily basis. Sometimes he designs/codes websites for side-jobs.

Bio:

Michael grew up in San Jose, where anything is possible. He began his musical journey in the upstairs room of a dark, cramped and filthy music store. It was there that Michael sat and watched a piano player named Reggie Rockanelli play his piano. This is because Michael's mom, Suzanne Reed, paid for these magical lessons to happen. Somehow, magically, Michael learned how to play the piano by copying the music he heard. This went on for thousands of years until Michael moved to San Diego in 1999.

During his first year of living in San Diego, Michael met Jon Sprague (The Jon). After flicking near-infinite amounts of soda-can tabs at fellow students, Jon and Michael moved onto greater things. Jon introduced Michael to the acoustic guitar by showing him how to play Beatles songs. Thanks, Jon. Michael stopped limiting himself to the just the piano, and opened up to any instrument that he could get both of his manicured hands on. He started collecting strange instruments from his travels, and spent nearly 22 hours every day practicing with them.

After working over 9,000 deadbeat jobs, Michael decided to try and make an honest living with his music. He begged and pleaded for someone to allow him into their band. Eventually, out of pity, He started playing keyboards with Anna Troy's Blues Band. After this, Michael moved onto playing the bass, keys and guitar with The Kalimba Kings, and then eventually onto The Smart Brothers, where he primarily played suitcases and the spoons, along with scream-yodeling. After an Album and a few tours to the technologically advanced city of New York, He found himself back in San Diego.

Steam Powered Giraffe must have heard the horror stories surrounding poor Michael Reed, because they came to him and graciously took him in, teaching him everything he knows about showbiz. Michael no longer has to live with his wolf family and scrounge for food to survive. He has since recorded an Album for Steam Powered Giraffe, and has played super massive arena concerts filled to the brim with fanatic fans. He is now bathing in the "Big Bucks" and constantly thinking of ways to vanish off the face of the planet.

To inquire about any recording endeavors with Mr. Reed, email him directly at:

Michael Philip Reed
Musician, Audio Engineer
michael.philip.reed@gmail.com

Bio:

Sam grew up the only boy of four siblings. His oldest memories are of him and his sister's drawing and pretending to be things they weren't and in places they could never go. Through the ages he steadily progressed at drawing because he knew when something didn't look right and took it upon himself to improve. Eventually the government made sam go to high school and his eldest sister encouraged him to join a play (instead of roaming around campus aimlessly - thanks Erin!).

After getting over that pesky omg-I'm-so-nervous-I'm-going-to-poop-out-all-my-guts feeling, he did ok in theater club. Soon there after, he decided anyone can play guitar, so he did and got involved in a musical trio (wherein he wrote, played guitar, and sang). Approximately junior year a tall, gangly fellow (by the name of David) joined the drama club and introduced himself as such. Sam spent many'a afternoon trying to discern the Bennett twins (one wears black and one wears dragons). The only way Sam chooses to explain the early days of "Hangin' With the Bennetts" is as follows:

"it was like being a supporting character on some weird sitcom within a sitcom."

For a while after that, they drifted apart (which tends to happen to friends of Sam). After barely graduating high school Sam tried community college and eventually found he hated it just as much as he hated all the wasted educative hours of his life. He already knew what he loved to do and how to do it, he could write and play songs and draw. So eventually he settled for a job at a cafe and stuck to living at home (with mommy) so he could support his habit of playing his music and being an artist (so cool! I wanna be like Sam!). He then took it upon himself to learn how to play half a drum kit with his feet so as to leave his hands free to play guitar and his mouth open to breath and sing. That's how he became the one-man-band, Samhears.

Fast forward a bit and it turns out the Bennetts only got weirder with time. They were robots now and apparently they needed a drummer. Sam turned down their first offer stating " I can only play a kick drum and a high-hat, with my feet". Then, after a period of reconciliation the robots asked again and Sam said, " ok, whatever, I guess since I taught myself to play guitar, bass, sing, piano, drawing, inking, fruity loops, adobe photoshop, chihuahua-rearing, and food preparation, another thing wouldn' t hurt." and well, that's how, I, Sam Luke, of Samhears (yes, I was the narrator the whole time!) became involved with Steam Powered Giraffe! The rest of the story...is up to you.