Travis Freudenberg - Bass
Travis Freudenberg is an electric bassist with over 15 years of electric bass recording and performance experience. A graduate of the University of Minnesota Morris, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jazz Studies and, oddly enough, Biology in 2001. While in attendance at UMM, Travis recorded, toured, and performed with a variety of different groups, including UMM Jazz Ensemble 1, No Smoking, The Black and Blue Note Jazz Quartet, and the Booty Police. Travis was a featured soloist with UMM Jazz Ensemble 1 at the 2000 Montreaux Jazz Festiva in Montreaux, Switzerland and also at the 2000 Vienne Jazz Festival in Vienne, France. He was honored with the Keith Carlson Memorial Jazz Award as Outstanding Jazz Musician at UMM in 2000.

Travis joined the music faculty of UMM as the electric bass instructor in 2001, and continues to teach there to this day. In addition to teaching private lessons, he is also a bass instructor at Apple Valley High School and My Music Store in Golden Valley.

Currently residing in the Twin Cities metro area of Minneapolis, Travis can be seen performing with groups such as Rare Medium, the Prawns, and various jazz projects, guest appearances, and corporate functions.

Ryan Johnson - Aka RJ DANGER
The original H-Dial (a.k.a the Hero Dial) is an enigmatic object whose origin is clouded in mystery. Its first recorded whereabouts are from a day in 1976, when an overintelligent (some may call him "goofy") teenager named Ryan Johnson was caught in the middle of a crime rampage in his hometown of Littleville. Pushed down a cliff at Valley Ridge, Ryan miraculously survived and found himself in a previously unexplored cavern.

There, Ryan discovered a strange kind of dial inscribed with an unknown language. He took it home, and somehow - through a very good sense of language or maybe by some mental link to the artifact - Ryan was able to decipher the alien characters, and for some reason felt the urge to dial the equivalent of the letters H-E-R-O.

"Sockamagee!! What's happening to me?" Ryan cried to himself. Well, what do you know. In an instant, the youngster had transformed into a super-hero. And with the transformation came an immediate knowledge of his powers and of his "hero name". As "RJ DANGER", Ryan fought the criminals he had encountered earlier.

To this day, it has not been revealed where this dial came from, if its origin is extraterrestrial or maybe of some ancient civilization. Nor has it been discovered how it could generate the identities of superheroes, a phenomenon very typical for the modern western world. But the fact remained - Ryan Johnson could become a new superhero every time he dialed the four letters. He became "the boy who can change into 1,000 super-heroes".

Aaron McCabe - trumpet and anti-shaker player,
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Aaron plays the trumpet and claims he can play the didgeridoo (he can't). He does other stuff too, like tell dumb jokes about monkeys. Ask him some time.

In the meantime, you can get more info about him and the numerous, diverse bands he plays with at Nextcat.com Not only does he enjoy the funky jazz/fusion he performs with Rare Medium, but also delves in funk/r&b/soul/gospel/rock/blues/hiphop/latin/pop/bigband/alternative forms of jazz in the relaxed bands of Manguito, the Dee Miller Band, and the Tesfa combos. He also tortures your children into playing their instruments phenomenally well at their high and junior high school musicals. What a guy!

So when is he going to find time to go to Arizona?

Jaim Zuber - guitar
Jaim AKA Buster Brunei (although we're fairly certain no one calls him that) appreciates the finer things in life, like long walks on the beach, Small Batch Bourbon and Vintage Eyewear from BluBlocker. When he's not onstage with Rare Medium, you can find him playing his Pedal Steel or staring out the window, waiting for Baseball Season to start.