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Fun With a Piano
Guitar Masters 2008
When Darla Drew Lerdal decided to ask Bobby Rasch to be in Guitar Masters 2008, she was surprised when he agreed to do it.
"People said, No way, Bob won't play," said Lerdal, Backroom Productions executive board president. "I called Bobby, and he said, 'Yeah, that sounds like fun.'"
Lerdal had known of Rasch since he was 10 and playing drums for the band Family Affair, which Rasch's father put together with instruments he bought at a pawn shop. By the time Rasch was 12, he was playing guitar, trying to master songs by Metallica and the Beatles.
"Any music that was good, I would try to figure out the melody," he said.
Rasch made a name for himself as a member of local rock band Dust N Roxx from 1993 to 2004. Since then, he has played a few gigs with Another Brick, a Pink Floyd tribute band.
"Nobody gets to see him that much anymore," Lerdal said.
She remembers Rasch's youthful enthusiasm on the instrument. "He would regularly break strings, which is not something you'd aspire to. … But he would be playing with such feeling," she said. "It was interesting to see a young person play with that passion."
