Greg Koch & The Koch Marshall Trio @ Oskar Blues Colorado Springs
Schedule
Fri, 31 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm
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Oskar Blues Grill & Brew Colorado Springs | Colorado Springs, CO
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Milwaukee native Greg Koch has forged a successful career as “a guitar player’s guitarist.” A fiercely creative player, Koch possesses an impressive repertoire of techniques, ranging from Albert Lee-style chicken-pickin’ to Albert King-inspired string bending, to all-out Hendrixian abandon.
In addition to his musicianship, Koch is a clinician for Fishman Transducers, and his wildly popular “guitar test drive” videos for Wildwood Guitars of Louisville, Colorado—over 4,000 to date—have amassed 50 million views.
Koch also collaborated with Reverend Guitars to release his signature axe, the Greg Koch Signature Gristlemaster, in 2019. The guitar features humorously named colors like Kochwork Orange and Blucifer.
Beyond playing and design, Koch is a best-selling method book author, video instructor for music publisher Hal Leonard, and contributing columnist for esteemed guitar magazines like Guitar Player.
Guitar legend Steve Vai, who released Koch’s 2001 album The Grip on his Favored Nations label, praised him:
"Greg Koch is one of those rare guitarists that can blend various styles with a light-hearted approach and a tremendous amount of technique. Hearing him play is inspiring to a guitar player to try to achieve greatness on the instrument."
Dylan Koch gravitated to the drums early in life, using kitchen utensils to play along with music as soon as he could walk. Inspired by legends like Ginger Baker, Keith Moon, Mitch Mitchell, and John Bonham, Dylan’s skills were later honed under the mentorship of Tom Brechtlein (Chick Corea/Robben Ford).
In high school, Dylan participated in the Jazz Institute at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and furthered his studies at the McNally Smith School of Music in the Twin Cities. While still in his teens, he performed with young guitar guns Tallan Noble Latz and Jared James Nichols and has played alongside his father with artists such as Robben Ford, Little Feat’s Paul Barrere, Jon Cleary, David Grissom, Roscoe Beck, and Malford Milligan.
Dylan was recently nominated for Drummer of the Year by the Wisconsin Area Music Awards (WAMI). As proud papa Greg Koch puts it:
"This is the third official recording with the kid. And what’s great about it is, you can’t teach the grease. And he gets it. He gets the filth. I guess he’s just got my filthy DNA."
Hailing from the Twin Cities area, Toby Lee Marshall grew up in a musical family. After years of playing piano, he fell in love with the sound of the organ at a baseball game at age seven. His passion for the Hammond B3 deepened after seeing Steve Cherewan perform with Dr. Mambo’s Combo during their legendary residency at Bunker’s in Minneapolis. Cherewan became Toby’s mentor, teaching him the intricacies of the B3.
Toby’s career quickly took off, and as a teenager, he landed a gig with bluesman Lonnie Brooks before going on to tour the world as part of Bernard Allison’s band. After a long hiatus from music to focus on raising his children, Toby returned to the stage with the Koch Marshall Trio.
As Greg Koch explains:
"Toby had actually retired from music. He decided to stop touring for several years to help raise his two young kids. But now he’s so excited to be playing in this trio because it’s just such a perfect format for him to let his freak flag fly. It’s the perfect combination of this kind of churchy, bluesy, funky, jazzy, rock, chicken-pickin’ thing, and he fits right in."
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The Basement at Oskar Blues Colorado Springs
118 N Tejon St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
www.coloradosprings.oskarbluesfooderies.com | All Responsible Ages Permitted
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The Basement at Oskar Blues Colorado Springs
Craft Beer, Fresh Ingredients, Live Music and our Family & Friends. These core values are what we’ve rooted our brand in ever since founder, Dale Katechis, opened the doors to the very first Oskar Blues restaurant in Lyons, Colorado in 1997.
Dale’s Southern roots and previous experience in the restaurant industry led him to create a spot that locals and visitors alike could rely on for delicious food, cold beer and live entertainment; a place that would inspire his passion for brewing and spark the craft-beer-in-a-can craze that would eventually make Oskar Blues famous.
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Where is it happening?
Oskar Blues Grill & Brew Colorado Springs, M & A Administration Services, 2 N Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, United States,Colorado Springs, ColoradoEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
