About Kevin Dragseth

Musical Bio:
Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Kevin was introduced to the electric bass in ninth grade.

He picked it up quickly, using great American and British classic rock and blues of the 60s and 70s as a learning platform. In high school and college, Kevin and lifelong friend Pete Duggan created several albums containing bizarre combinations of folk, pop, new wave and progressive rock. No one is still living who owns these albums. In college, Kevin joined some classmates to form Mr. Hooper, a modern rock quintet (and later quartet)  that harnessed the best of grunge, metal, classic rock, blues and other influences, and rocked St. Peter and the Twin Cities for eight years. Finally, Kevin was called upon by former Mr. Hooper bandmate John Kerns to fill the bottom end in Kerns' latest project, Kerns and the Hemispheres. The rest is history. 

Musical Influences:
Kevin celebrates a very wide variety of music with great enthusiasm: American folk, bluegrass, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, metal, pop, punk, electronic, dance and world music from every inhabited continent. Particular influences in no particular order include Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Limeliters, Trip Shakespeare, Peter Gabriel, Pete Seeger, Led Zeppelin, REM, Santana, Oliver Mdtukutzi, Tiësto and Alice In Chains.