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to THE ROAD KILL BAND .COM
This is a website for you our
fans and we appreciate your comments and suggestions. If it
wasn't for you we wouldn't be here!
The 2009 Tour will be an incredible amount of fun.
We hope to see you all on the road this year! Be sure to check
the "Tour Page"
to find a show near you and don't forget to get your T-shirt signed
at the "Meet and
Greet" after every show.
"MIDNIGHT
MADNESS"
MOTOWORLD
IN EL CAJON - THE ROAD KILL BAND IS ROCKIN!!!!
315 North Magnolia Ave. El Cajon, CA 92020
Check out the photos
of our first show of 2005
from "THE
CROSSROADS" on January
22nd!
"THE
FIRST ROADKILL"
ROAD KILL BAND BY JIMMY O FEB. 2006
People wanted find out where you were born and raised and how you
became interested in playing music?
Starting with Jimmy O'Krey , I was born in the good old U.S.A. and
grew up in La Porte Indiana, about sixty miles east of Chicago.
I moved to Western Montana at about age of 18 and joined the United
States Air Force after graduating from high school. I met a guitar
player John Belchor who played the hell out of the guitar and needed
a bass player. I picked a bass guitar and amp and drove my friends
crazy, but managed to get it together. We played anywhere people
would listen, I worked full time at the Fire Department and found
most of the Slum Bars very receptive to the band on our days off.
I can remember we would practice in the Fire Stations restroom because
of the acoustical sound. I paid for my first guitar by cutting hair,
ironing uniforms and tips from the slum bars. Who were your early
influences that you looked up to as far as playing music? There
was a local night club in South Bend,our band opened for Tommy James
and that got me excited. The music I wanted to hear was from Ray
Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis. Watching the talented entertainers on
American Band Stand pushed me over the edge. I would imagine, yeah.
Then after that Chuck Berry came along and then Little Richard of
course. Then once I got into the rock side of it I delved back to
find out where that came, and I discovered Muddy Waters, John Lee
Hooker, Howlin' Wolf and it was all down hill from there. Tell me
a little bit about the original formation of Road Kill , how did
you guys come together. I was playing around in my studio and decided
to put a band together. My dear wife Debbie went to Spain for a
vacation. I pulled all the furniture out of our family room and
proceeded to call all my musician friends; we blew the roof off
our house. I knew then a band had to be formed. We have been together
now about four and half years and have changed drummers once, because
of traveling conflicts. How successful was that first C.D. when
you put that out? The first one was a lot of fun. We pulled about
nine songs out of our list of many and started to record. Our original
drummer Joe Dugan, Lenny Locken and Don Beers laid these songs out
in about four hours. We have to thank Martin for the production
of the tracks, but it was fun and exciting. We are getting ready
to put together another one soon.
Tell me Lenny Locken:
People wanted find out where you were born and raised and how you
became interested in playing music? Who do I look up to? The list
is huge, Jimi, Stevie Ray, Carlos, Neil, Muddy, John Lee, Howlin
Wolf, Dwight, Hank, Johnny, Willie, Jerry, on and on. My first influences
were my folks . My mom sang around the house a lot and listened
to top forty pop & country in the sixties. She came from a family
of musicians, everyone played something. Grandpa played guitar,
mandolin. Grandma played mandolin, guitar, piano. Mom played piano,
organ, accordion. Her sisters played horns. Nowadays we call them
the singing Norwegians. They all played strictly religious music.
It was always a great time when they got together. Pops played harp
after a few beers that's about it. He used to record Jazz cats up
in LA in the 60's so I got to listen to all kinds of stuff at a
very young age. We'd listen to everything from John Philip Souza
to Hank Snow. My sisters got me on to the whole 60's & 70's thing.
Pop's had a DJ friend who used to kick me records all the time.
My sister let me use her electric guitar when I was nine and that
lasted about a month, a few years later a friend needed someone
to help back him up at a party so we learned Folsom Prison Blues.
Soon after that I went out and got a job bought a guitar pissed
off the old man. What kind of gear are you running? My favorite
live rig is a 65' Tele / Fender Deluxe or 76' Les Paul / 100 watt
Marshall most of the time I'll run both. Straight through no effects.
Maybe an EQ to bump the Tele to the LP level, sometimes an echo
and old crybaby. Generally I avoid those things live, I don't need
any distractions. When we're in the studio I get to mess around
with all my other stuff, Guild BB's, Strat Fatheads. Some days it's
a whim, some days it depends on which one has strings on it. It's
all about tone and searching for the right sound for the song. I'm
always looking for another guitar or amp and that's the big joke
around the house. How about Roadkill? I first met Jim at a Xmas
party, he comes up and says I hear you play guitar let's get together
and rock out… Awhile later I get a call saying the coast is clear
come on over. We ripped it up pretty good that day. That's when
I met Carlos. I still can't understand how someone can remember
so many lyrics.
Check out this
'Classic Rock' band.
The DRUMMER
is STU.
THE JACK
BURNS ROCK FESTIVAL 2007 WAS GREAT!
Pictures posted! And thanks to all the people at the festival
who made it work . . . everything ran like clockwork!...and thank
you to our JAMULIAN fans who have waited so long and were SO cool!
CLICK HERE FOR THE PHOTOS!
CINCO
DE MAYO AT THE BURNS WAS
A BLAST !!!!
THANKS JACK AND EVA
JIMMY AND VICTOR
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