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Broken Ride
12+ albums
modern rockgreatDiscoverockultalternative rock
about
In 2006, Broken Ride’s Graham Furber and Darren Falk, the singer and the drummer of an old disbanded rock group named Stanley, moved to Calgary, driving forward in hopes of continuing their music career. It was there they met up with local rapper/musician “King Dylan” Roberts and built a solid friendship and musical/business partnership. Maintaining hopes of forming a new band, Darren and Graham auditioned with a few local guitarists but soon found unmatched talent in Kyle Heese, recommended through a mutual friend’s word of mouth. The name Broken Ride was born, and the song-writing started to flow with the unparalleled voice of Graham, the heart and drive of Darren, and the perfectionist guitar technique of Kyle, using hip hop/heavy metal-influenced Dylan playing keyboards for back up. After a few acoustic-style gigs, the need for a full rock band and a bassist (which were of minimal availability in Calgary) became dire, and the mutual agreement of Dylan buying and learning to play a bass guitar to round out the band materialized. Over 30 shows and battle of the bands, more than 5 different broken down, crashed, and/or towed-away vehicles, countless sketchy promoters, 1 terribly over-priced recording, and 3 attempted guitarists later, the band took on a new venture with the addition of guitarist, and Billy Klippert’s (Season One Canadian Idol runner-up) former band-mate and co-writer, Ron Tarrant. This, in turn, started the rewriting process, reinventing a new sound and n
