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To Charlie Pickett, a guitar-playing local of Dania, FL, punk rock and roll meant aged Rolling Rocks and mid-’60s garage area rock and roll a lot more than the Ramones and Sex Pistols, which devotion to a hyped-up root base rock and roll audio was what produced Charlie Pickett such …

The ’90s power pop outfit Wonderboy contains members Robbie Rist (singer, guitar, keyboard), Pat McGrath (guitars, keyboards, vocals), Dave Brow (bass, vocals), and Paul “Wally” Presson (drums, percussion, vocals). Rist got his focus on the music group Paul Pope, who released a set of albums and toured, but ultimately lost …

Prototypical Midwestern roots-rockers, the Rainmakers ironically achieved their very best commercial success abroad, despite generally great reviews within their homeland. Main songwriter Bob Walkenhorst’s lively wit and topical ointment lyrics arranged the Rainmakers aside from their Heartland club music group peers, though musically they drew in the expected roots rock …

For a short time — a matter of weeks, actually — the Unforgiven were probably the most wanted band in LA. Every label viewed the six-string slinging sextet and noticed cash, maybe as the group appeared to be the American counterpart towards the Big Music surging through Britain in the …