Some artists are all about entertaining their audience with their music, but others have a deeper goal. They want to make a genuine connection. This is the case of Bob’s Dock, a project founded by musicians Jason Heath and Josh Sanders.
Their music has a unique focus on 70s, Alternative and Indie Rock.
Debut album coming May 9th 2025
About the Band Members:
Tim Church / Brian Kleinsmith
Tim has been playing drums and percussion since the 5th grade, studying music all through high school and two college degrees. Being orchestrally trained, he performed with the Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo Symphonies after college, as well as other jazz, rock and caribbean settings. Playing drumset was Tim's first love, heavily influenced by Stewart Copeland, Manu Katche and Phil Collins in his younger years. Now he sticks to mainly playing kit, spending "quality time" with his family and working full time at Black Swamp Percussion.
Brian is one of two teachers in the band. He has played guitar (mostly) and bass in bands since the mid 1980s. He lived for fifteen years in Taiwan, where he played in numerous jazz and rock bands, which included gigs at the Hard Rock Cafe Taipei, an MTV Unplugged special, and one official album release. He has written, recorded, and produced 40 of his own solo albums, some of which can be heard
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Josh Sanders / Jason Heath
Josh is the other teacher in the band. He plays guitar with Bob’s Dock (usually six-string, but occasionally five for limited periods of time). He has owned a few guitars over the years, but his favorite is an old acoustic that belonged to his father and was recently repaired and brought back to life by Jason. He enjoys writing, playing and thinking about music. Aside from music, Josh has an appreciation of freestyle Vogon poetry.
Jason didn’t get serious about music until 2017, when life became almost too hard to bear. Something in his life was always more important. Be it school, work, marriage, fatherhood, or some other combination of responsibilities that pile upon all of us. He could never find balance for music until music found it for him. The result was 2018s ‘Have Hope Again’ EP. A bloodletting of songs as raw as his emotions then. Now on the other side of despair, he’s been honing his chops to best express what he's learned in hopes that it might resonate with others.