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While Silent Bob is the comedy alter ego of director Kevin Smith, the more eloquent but frequently inaudible Whispering Bob is a band, of the sort that is more likely to perform in a bedroom for the benefit of cheap tape recording equipment then on the rock & roll stage. The band, based out of Oxford in England since the late '90s, represents part of a legacy of likeminded recording artists, so much so that a genre sublabel has been adopted: bedroom music. The label was welcomed not only by lovers of intimate, low-tech recordings, but by followers of the "locale" approach to labels, i.e., garage rock, chamber music, basement tapes, house, and so on.Drummers such as Tom Bryant are inevitably the ones who suffer the most from the bedroom approach to recording -- most bedrooms, particularly in Oxford, do not have room for a proper drum kit. If there does happen to be room, guess who has to play more quietly than usual, and doesn't like it? This is only one of the many possible reasons this drummer chose not to stay part of the Whispering Bob empire; in biographies of the band he is even part of a list of came-and-went drummers who are collectively compared to Pete Best of Beatles fame, or rather non-fame. Bryant may also suffer from confusion with a list of other musicians of the same name, including a jazz bassist, a psychedelic guitarist from the '60s, and a fellow drummer who shows up on electronica recordings. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide
