Millard Powers
| Millard Powers | |
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Powers performing with Counting Crows, Aug. 21, 2006 Starwood Amphitheater, Nashville, Tennessee
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Avery Millard Powers III |
| Born |
December 24, 1965 Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Genres | Rock, powerpop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, producer, recording engineer, songwriter, vocalist |
| Instruments | Bass, guitar, piano, banjo, mandolin, trumpet, drums, moog bass, double bass, vocals |
| Associated acts | Counting Crows, The Semantics, Majosha, Ben Folds |
Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and Grammy-nominated recording engineer. Since 2005 he has played bass guitar in the band Counting Crows.
Powers studied piano for six years, and played trumpet in his middle school and high school bands for five years. He went on to study Guitar Performance and Communications at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Majosha was a band formed around early 1988 with Ben Folds on bass, Powers on guitar, and Dave Rich on drums. They played their first show at Duke University's Battle of the Bands in 1988 and won. Majosha released an EP, Party Night: Five Songs About Jesus in 1988, which contained four tracks, and none of which were about Jesus. After gaining popularity, they released their first album, Shut Up and Listen to Majosha in 1989. Around the same time, they did a dance mix of Get That Bug which was released in Japan. The band's label was Fresh Avery Records. All tracks were produced by Folds and Powers.
The Semantics, a power-pop band formed by Millard Powers and Will Owsley, featured Jody Spence and Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey. Ben Folds appeared on drums on two demos which were not released and on keyboard at a few live performances. Folds was not involved with the creative aspects of the group. The band was signed to Geffen Records, and their album Powerbill, initially slated for release through Geffen Records in 1993, was released in Japan through Alfa International on December 21, 1996.
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