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Band

AGRO Members:

Cliff Crabb:


Why Agro?: Coz I started it!!
Instrument(s): Throat
Born: 1971
Residence: Edenvale sa
Family: Wife wendy, daughter kai(hanson)la-lee, step daughter Kelly and dog, Jackson Browne.
Equipment List: hmmm
Endorsements: Not even my local pub!!! Things are gonna change around here!!!

Best Agro memory: Dumping our manager!!
Worst Agro memory: Death of our original guitarist.

Favourite Food: Jelly tots.
Drinks: Beer.
Favourite Movie: Titanic, Still Crazy, The Smurfs.

Side Projects, Former Bands:  We don’t do side projects :P remember... nothing serious

Favourite Bands:  Judas Priest, Helloween, Gamma-Ray, Savatage, Manowar, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, Grave Digger, Scorpions, Magnum, Rage, Christy Moore, Accept, Stryper, Flogging Molly, Deep Purple, Merciful Fate, Dark Tranquility, Lake Of Tears, Kreator, Nocturnal Rites, Nightwish, Amorphis, Rainbow, Bathory, Uriah Heep, Ensiferum, Golden Earring, The Strawbs, Children of Bodom, Symphony X, Bad Religion, Van Canto, Queen, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Hypocricy, Storm Warrior, Hell, Brainstorm…etc

Dislikes: hip hop, clowns, mimes, porcelain dolls and motivational speakers.

Words to live by: “be excellent to each other” (bill and ted) and “do onto others as you would have them do unto you” (jesus Christ)




Robbie Riebler:


Why Agro?: Because we’re the best Heavy Metal band in the world
Instrument(s): Bass Guitar / Backing Vocals
Born: 14 September 1975
Residence: Edenvale sa
Family: Tori (daughter); Misty (cat).
Equipment List: Ibanez Basses
Hartke Bass Amps (VX3500 / HyDrive 500); Pedals (Boss B2.1u / Hartke Bass Attack Pedal).

Endorsements: Hartke Bass Amps; Ibanez; Audiosure.

Best Agro memory: I have loads of great memories… I’ve been in the band for so many years - but the best memories are still to be made.
Worst Agro memory: With the good comes the bad - and there have been some bad times.
But the good far out ways the bad. We’re still here and you aint gonna bring us down! Nuff said. You know who you are.


Favourite Food: Pizza, Pasta, Geschnaetzeldes mit Spaetzle \m/.
Drinks: Beer, Vodka, Jack Daniels.
Favourite Movie: Shawshank Redemption, Platoon.

Side Projects, Former Bands:  We don’t do side projects :P remember... Bird Cage Walk (:P) and Absolution. I generally don’t do side projects but I have some stuff I’ve been working on.

Favourite Bands:  Iron Maiden; In Flames; Mercenary, Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, Ensiferum, Manowar … too many to mention…

Dislikes: Most SA Radio Stations and Radio Personalities, even Promoters that don’t support the Metal scene but exploit SA metal fans when they bring out heavier international artists only to use it as a platform to promote their commercial pop rock shit..

Words to live by: “I want to put a ding in the universe.”
Steve Jobs (RIP)




Alex Temperley:


Why Agro?: South Africa’s longest standing metal band?
Why not

Instrument(s):
Drums
Born: 
4 September 1988
Residence: 
Johannesburg
Family:
Tarryn Temperley (wife)
Equipment List: 
Tama SuperStar Hyperdrive 6 piece,
Tama Speed Cobra double pedal, Tama RoadPro hardware.
Anatolian, UFIP, and Stagg Cymbals

Endorsements:
(sign me up)

Best Agro memory:
The look on Rob’s face when i started a song incorrectly during practise.
Worst Agro memory:
Having to almost cancel a practise


Favourite Food:
Ribs
Drinks:
Beer, Coffee
Favourite Movie: 
Django Unchained

Side Projects, Former Bands:  We don’t do side projects :P remember...
ummmm

Favourite Bands:
Dream Theater, Karnivool, Lamb of God, Pantera, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Adrenaline Mob, Animals As Leaders, The Winery Dogs, Porcupine Tree, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, Machine Head, Rage Against The Machine, and many more.

Dislikes:
Musicians acting like they are the most amazing thing on earth when they can’t even play their instrument. Closed-mindedness. Racism, sexism, elitism, classism, xenophobia, and opera.

Words to live by: You can learn from everyone, you might learn what NOT to do, but you still learn something.                      

No matter how good you are (at anything), there is always someone better.




Martin John Dugdale:


Why Agro?: Because we’re the best Heavy Metal band in the world!
Instrument(s):
Guitars
Born: 
Residence: 
Johannesburg, South Africa
Family:
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Ian Gertenbach:


Why Agro?: Is this a rhetorical question? In short, AGRO have been around longer than I’ve been alive, being approached to play for them could not be a greater honour. And of course, metal is law.

Instrument(s): Rhythm guitar
Born: JHB
Residence: JHB
Family: Apart from my personal family, my friends and especially my bandmates are my family. Love thy neighbour!
Equipment List: Cort M520 6-String, Ibanez RG Series 7-String, Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 80W Combo Amp, Boss GT-100 Multi-Effects Processor, Ernie Ball Strings, Jim Dunlop XL Series Jazz III Plectrums.

Endorsements: I endorse all of the things I personally use. Whether the companies that make these things give me money to do so is less clear.

Best Agro memory: My first gig with the band, nothing too out of the ordinary happened but I was stressing quite profusely about how well the new line-up would be received, and judging from the many hair-whirling and head banging craniums, we seemed to pass the test! Cannot wait to make new best memories, for the best is truly yet to come.


Worst Agro memory: Clifford finished one of my roll-up cigarettes once. It was awful. I had to roll another one and everything. I refuse to cultivate bad memories, they do nothing for productivity!


Favourite Food: The edible, delicious kind. Comfort food will always go down well, so feed me starch and carbs and meat and fat!
Drinks: I have an addiction to anything that supposedly gives me energy. Otherwise, I’m partial to Spiced Gold and Coke and the occasional beer and draught.
Favourite Movie: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and anything that gives me a chuckle. But mostly Star Wars.

Favourite Bands: I listen to so many genres and subgenres of rock and metal and other genres of music, we’ll be here forever if I list ALL my favourites. From a metal perspective, I’m going to go ahead and recommend (in alphabetical order) The Acacia Strain, Anthrax, Arch Enemy, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Bloodbath, Dethklok, Devildriver, Gojira, In Flames, Intervals, Iron Maiden, Jex Thoth, Judas Priest, King 810, Korpiklaani, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Manowar, Mastadon, Megadeth, Meshuggah, Metallica, Motorhead, Muse, Nirvana (not technically metal but they are excellent), Opeth, Skyharbor, Slayer, Slipknot, System Of A Down, White Zombie, Whitechapel.

Side Projects, Former Bands:  We don’t do side projects :P remember... I had an indie band called The Token Nobodies in my university days, and then I joined 11th Hour for about three years, before that flaked out. Now, I still write my own easy listening garage rock, and I wistfully plan to record Star Wars themed metal for shiggles and gits but my #1 commitment would of course be Agro


Dislikes: False and backstabbing people with their own agendas, music with no thought put into it apart from dumbing down the ignorant and glorifying commercialism, arrogance, disloyalty, corruption, poor service delivery, division in the metal industry (it’s not a competition, we have to stick together), pettiness, those that choose to bring others down to make themselves feel better, and spiders. Spiders can go die.

Words to live by: There are many quotes out there but the words that have always stuck with me were uttered by my dad when I was being a 16 year old whiny little brat. He said; “Life sucks, deal with it.” Add a positive attitude to that and you’re good to go!