Against The Grain

d back up with all new players. Brian Lenharth-Drums

Brian was born in St. Louis, MO and started drumming at the age of 18. He found his start to drumming listening to Phil Collins, whose drumming was both unique and amazing when he played with Genesis. Then he got the ability to see Rush, whose drummer was world renown drummer Neil Peart and was hooked. Throughout college Brian played with notable bands in Springfield, MO, Monumental Radio, Plainview, and did studio drumming for Ozark Sound Studios. Brian has a self taught drumming background and influences include Genesis, Rush, Dave Matthews Band, Yes, Bruce Hornsby, Terry Bozzio, and many other Classic and Progressive Rock influences. Brian plays Mapex drums, Pearl snares and pedals, Zildjian and Sabian cymbals and uses Neil Peart Signature Promark Sticks. Gary Derossett Keys

Gary got his first guitar that his mother bought from his girlfriends father when he was 14 back in Bryan, Ohio of course back then the Beatles were a main influence along with The Hollies. There were bands like The Buckinghams, Grass Roots. The Stones were never much on his list back in the day because harmony in songs is what caught his attention so when bands like The Eagles, Poco, and Loggins and Messina came around the caught his interest both because vocals and instrumentally there was a lot of harmony work in the music. He played around his area of Ohio until we moved to Kansas where He played in a number of garage bands and hit about every bar in Kansas just to see bands if you know a bar back in the seventies he was probably there at one time or another. Southern Rock came into play and his favorite band was Lynyrd Skynyrd along with an area band called Kansas. After meeting his wife he ended up for a time in Michigan which he still calls the greatest Rock and Roll state of the seventies the bars had great show venues and the bands were extremely talented. He played in this area for a couple of years and at one point would just go out on week ends and fill in as a guitar player for bands that had gigs but either there lead player was sick or just quit the band and there he’d would be. The music had begun to change did some jamming in the Kansas City area then closing it down for many years. Moved to the Branson area back in 2004 around 2007 began jamming again with people but nothing really happening then in 2014 I answered and add for the band Against the Grain playing keys and back up guitar and so the story goes and here I am having a great time with a great band. Ivan Bass Player

Born Ivan Lee Way on May 29 1973 in Des Moines, Ia.moved to Branson, Mo. At age ten started playing trumpet in band.through out elementary and highschool played tuba, baritone, french horn, bass clarinet,tenor saxstarted to play guitar at age 15 and moved to bass guitar at 17.played with local artists in bands such as Push, Shooting Lucy,Someday Soon, Messenger , FragileX, then played with Motown Downtown and Rock Holiday, for a year and half andopened one show for Bad Company's Paul Rodgers with the band Someday Soonopened a three day festival with Motown Downtown, that featured artists such as Lou Gramm,Christopher Cross and Firefall.Appeared in Motown Downtown on DVD, FragileX video of Social Butterfly,and is heard on FragileX song Inspirations

Gary Brewer Lead Guitar

Started playing guitar in the 60's when music was most important thing in mine and all my friends young lives. We would sit around the record player to listen and analyze the latest records from the Beatles, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Wishbone Ash, Deep Purple, Hendrix and other great artists of the time. Had a mobile recording van in the 70's. Worked at the campus,audio video studio in college. Played around the Tampa Bay area prior to moving to the Branson area in 1998. Influenced by The Beatles, Byrds, Clapton, Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, Joe Bonmassa and many others. Love Les Pauls, Hot-rodded Telecasters and PRS Customs. Use Egnater amps. Never too old to Rock & Roll