all musicians and their instruments:
• Jake B. Curley - Lead-Vocals
• Helmood Blues - Lead-Vocals & Harmonica
• Peter "Hoover" Huber - Trumpet
• Frank Guttsman - Slide-Trombone
• Steve Oellerer - Tenor- and Alto-Saxophone
• Gunther "Shelly" Schelberger - Baritone-Saxophone
• Wolfgang "Luke" Luckner - Drums
• Bernie Osanna - Bass
• Carl Myers - Guitar
• Ruby Valentine - Keyboards
• Bridget Zorga - Backup-Vocals
• Muriel Grossman - Backup Vocals

The most important thing to know about T.O.B. is, that they're not "just another Blues Brothers look-a-like" band!

Sure! They look and sound a lot like the legendary duo and in fact, T.O.B. are big fans of the BB's, but this is exactly the reason, why they dont want to imitate the inimitable, but much more innovate!

Dan Aykroyd himself estimated some 2000 impersonating duos worldwide. Maybe, that was another reason for appearing with three other "Blues Brothers" in the new movie "Blues Brothers 2000"

Well, however! THE ORIGINAL BROTHERS always played their own music, their own compositions as well as those great tunes that were also interpreted in this unique way by the Blues Brothers Band, from back in the mid-seventies until today.

T.O.B.'s credo is: "2000 Bands play Blues Brothers - we play Rock'n'Soul!"

It's not T.O.B.'s intention to profit from the ongoing success of the BB's, but to promote the music and to continue the mission!

ANSWERS TO FAQ's:
• The band was founded in 1989 by Jake B. and Helmood Blues.
• T.O.B. are located in Austria, but perform shows all over Europe and the US
• The average number of visitors/concert is around 750 (1997)
• The largest indoor-events were: Wroclaw/Poland 1997 (2.500 people) Leipzig/Germany 1995 (over 5.000 people) and Vienna/Austria 1996 (around 5.000)
• The largest open-airs were: Traunstein/Germany 1998 (over 4.000 people), Vienna/Austria 1994 (4.000) and 1995 (10.000 people)
• T.O.B. performs some 45 to 60 shows/year.
• Usually T.O.B. perform around 30 to 35 songs per show.
• T.O.B.'s repertoire contains far over 100 songs.
• CD releases: "Brothers - The Original" (1994) / "Eight Lives Left" (1997) / "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" (1998

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