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King’s X

Few hard rock and roll rings are as widely well known yet criminally overlooked as King’s X. The trio (bassist/vocalist Doug Pinnick, guitarist/vocalist Ty Tabor, and drummer/vocalist Jerry Gaskill) appeared destined for the big style with their amazing mixture of melodic Beatlesque harmonies, metallic riffing, and prog rock and roll …

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Doug Pinnick

Doug Pinnick is well known first of all because the soulful singer and bassist for hard rockers King’s X. Given birth to Sept 3, 1950, in Joliet, IL, Pinnick found out rock and roll & move through such greats as Sly as well as the Family members Rock, Jimi Hendrix, …

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Alchemist

Throughout their decade-plus existence, and despite liberating a string of singularly original and unconventional albums, Australia’s Alchemist has continued to be among the best-kept secrets in steel. Beginning with their modest origins in past due-’80s thrash metallic, the quartet is rolling out right into a state-of-the-art steel band, combining affects …

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Atomic Opera

Inspired from the Beatles/Queen-influenced progressive steel and spiritual concentrate of King’s X (with whom he went to church while surviving in Springfield, MO), guitarist/vocalist/cellist Frank Hart founded Atomic Opera in Houston in the first ’90s. Having a lineup also offering tempo guitarist Jonathan Marshal, bassist Jonas Velasco, and drummer Tag …

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Ra

Musically adept, relentlessly inventive, and fiercely independent, tenacious, shape-shifting really difficult rockers Ra formed in the later 1990s throughout the abilities of vocalist Sahaj Ticotin, drummer Skoota Warner, bassist Kirk Lyons, and guitarist Ben Muaro. Supplying up a heady mixture of hard rock and roll, funk, nu-metal, and middle eastern-tinged …

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Phideaux

Phideaux Xavier has performed in the brand new York area because the ’80s, when he fronted punk-pop combo Sally, Dick, & Jane. Early 1990 noticed the delivery of the SunMachine, a sextet comprising acoustic guitar, bass, percussion, flute, violin, and cello offering three strong performers besides Xavier, whose boyish exuberance …

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Jerry Gaskill

Drummer, vocalist, and songwriter Jerry Gaskill founded the progressive steel music group King’s X in 1983. A indigenous of Bridgeton, NJ, Gaskill started playing at a age, developing a band along with his dad and sibling and playing his initial gig at age seven. After playing in rings throughout senior …

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Platypus

Platypus was a supergroup made up of John Myung (Desire Theatre), Derek Sherinian (Alice Cooper, Kiss, Desire Theater, World X), Ty Tabor (Kings X), and Pole Morgenstein (Dregs, Steve Morse Music group, Rudess/Morgenstein Task). They released two albums, When Pus Involves Shove (1999) and Snow Cycle (2000).

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Ty Tabor

King’s X guitarist Ty Tabor was created on Sept 17, 1961, in Jackson, MS. As a young child, he started playing electric guitar and produced a bluegrass music group with his sibling on banjo and his dad on washtub bass; they performed celebrations around Mississippi and opened up for nation …

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Galactic Cowboys

Bassist Monty Colvin and drummer Alan Doss initial played jointly in Houston within a music group known as the Awful Truth. When it split, Colvin and Doss recruited vocalist Ben Huggins and guitarist Dane Sonnier to create Galactic Cowboys. Agreed upon immediately after by DGC, the metallic rock and roll …

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