Benjamin Earl

Bass, Low Tones, Groove, and Compositions that cause sexual orgasms for your ears... and for your brains... and even for your pee pee or poonany... but mostly for your ears... and your brains.

Benjamin Earl was born on February 28, 1978 in Brigham City, UT. Ben always wanted to be a musician from early in his life. Piano lessons at an early age didn't spark the interest, but an Alto Saxophone at age 11 did the trick. Never had much natural talent, but determination and love for creating brought Ben to the top of musicianship all his life.
Ben spent 13 years in Utah before his family moved to Florence, AL. At age 15 and now in high school, Ben was challenged to play the Bass Guitar for a friends gig at a local club. A loan from the friend in need bought a brand new Peavy Fury $150 and a used combo 50 watt amp $100. 2 weeks later was their first gig as a band called Rainbow Licorice, and bass player was born.
From this band Ben met some new people from across the river in Muscle Shoals, including life long friends Bryan Farris. Their first band was called The Jarmains. Bryan and Ben moved to New Jersey at age 19 to pursue the large music scene of NYC. Soon after arriving in NJ they met drummer Steven Dans and started a band called Opaque (aka OpaqueTones). Opaque performed for about 4 years before Bryan decided to move back home to Alabama.
During the recording of Opaques first full length album Ben and Steve began working with the engineer/producer on different projects, including the new Naughty By Nature album. From this experience Daylow was born. Daylow began as Ben and Steves production company... making hiphop beats and electronic compositions.
Their first gig as Daylow was an open mic for emcees at the Court Tavern in NB, NJ. CO-hosting with Nabil from Underground EXP and later Open Mindz, Daylows open mic was a huge success and will go down in NJ history books as "...the closest vibe to the New York underground scene you can find around (NJ)..." [Daily Targum]
Daylow also CO-hosted a poetry reading called "Floetry" with local legend Jerry Gant. This is where they met poet Likwid Thoughts, eventually leading to their first full length album "Likwid Thoughts and Daylow". During this time Ben and Steve also had the oportunity to play a large event at NJPAC with artist Omega (Fugees).
Continually looking for new musicians, Ben and Steve joined numerous bands. Most notably The BrainTrust NYC AKA The Prophets. This hiphop rooted reggae band had a great influence on Ben. It was the first opportunity he had to incorporate his love for reggae and ska. Almost all the music in Braintrust was written by NYC prodigy Steven Lopez, but Ben and Steve had their creative input on all song arrangement and recording. The BrainTrust was a long practiced and short gigged band, before Lopez moved to LA to go to college and continue his undoubted long career in music.
During that "searching" era of their lives, Ben and Steve began working with good friend Mike Hemberger and released a Daylow colab called "This is the Life" (and Braintrust song "Iconoclast") on a compilation CD by a collective of friends and musicians called Freak Genes. Hemberger (AKA Jive the UNI AKA Dynamike) is ultimately who introduced Daylow to their current singer Hyphen One.
Soon after the Freak Genes compilation Ben and Steve joined the band SJSLCB. Ben engineered their first album "Lifeguards -vs- Vic Thrill", a 7" split. They also recorded a full length album entitled "Dive" and EP "Wave Good-bye". The EP was produced and engineered by industry respected Godfrey Diamond.
At one of the last BrainTrust shows, Ben was approached by singer who needed a bass player for a project he was starting. After some thought about joining a 4th band, Ben eventually joined the rock band Hello Eden. They recorded 2 EPs, "Grand Bizzare" and "Euphoric Utopia" before the band stated to look for a bass player that had more time to devote to the project.
During all the crazy 3 and 4 band days.... Ben continued to write music with Hyphen One and they put together a band to play the music live. Ben found time to engineer Daylows first EP entitled "Hyphen One and Daylow". After Hyphen's year contract with Qwilite Records, Daylow release their recording in 2005.
Ben plays exclusively with Hyphen One and Daylow these days, and enjoys writing music for a band that brings his creativity to life. Hyphen One and Daylow have been working on their first full length album since early 2006. By far the best and most anticipated album do date, Daylow plans to have a release date in early 2008.
Ben studied music at Northwest Shoals and recording at CCM. He learned a lot from studying with Phil Saruk, but Ben is mostly self taught and learned from experience. He is also a self proclaimed Pro-Tools wiz. Currently Ben plays a Fender P-Bass Deluxe 5 and a Peavy Cirus Fretless 5. He uses a NS Design CRM5 for recording and sometimes pulls out his rare 4 string American ATK Series Ibanez. He has been playing with the same Hartke 3500 for 12 years and uses an Ampeg BXT 4X10.
Ben recently has picked up a new hobby with filming things and online band promotion. Slowly learning about the web Ben controls all production, promotion, and design of online content for Daylow. He films local bands for free to promote the community of great musicians in NJ/NYC/PA on Youtube @ Earlounge. Ben also produces his own viral videos and Vlogs at NOONE3NOON.

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Hyphen One and Daylow - Ill Regular