From the Green Room Feature Band: Lee O’ Nell Blues Gang

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  1. What’s the name of the band?

Lionel WERNERT: Well, let me introduce you Lee O’Nell Blues Gang

  • Where are you from?

Gipsy BACUET: We came from France, and are living in Reims: the city of Champagne and where all the kings where crowned in the Middle Ages.

  • What type of music do you play?

Lionel: We play a contemporary Blues Rock music. A mix of vintage and modernity.

Gipsy: Some say here « The french band that has it all figured when it comes to putting some Blues into the Rock and vice-versa » which is a pretty good definition of Lionel’s music.

  • Introduce yourselves to the readers and tell us what you do in the band?

Lionel: I’m the leader and the only composer of the band and decided to form my own group in 2019 with Gipsy as the fabulous female voice and lyrics writer.

Gipsy: And we are also manager, booking agents, driver of the van on tour… haha ! we have to put all the caps in the same time as we are an emerging band , even if we have 2 albums self-produced since 2020. « Different Shades Of Love » released in 2020 and « This is us » released in 2022.

  • This is probably a common question but one that most want to know, what musical influences did you have growing up, and what are some now?

Lionel: Yes that is a common question, but I think it’s the normal way to discover a band without listening to it before ! Anyway , I’m a self taught child of rock who grew with all the iconic 70’s rock bands such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow among others… Then I went to the roots and listened and studied Albert King, Eric Clapton, Peter Green… among others, and most recently Joe Bonamassa, Eric Gales or Christone Kingfish Ingram…

Gipsy: I love all those Rock and Blues legends, but mostly came from Jazz: Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald… and country with Bonnie Raitt for example. 

Lionel: These different universes from which we come,  allow me to compose and build songs with a multitude of shades. That is exactly what I was looking for. Gipsy also has an extra large vocal range and can play with her voice; she can be sassy, feline smooth and jazz till rock , rough and powerful when I need her to be.

  • Have you always been into music? Was it something that just came to you naturally?

Lionel: Yes, I’ve always been into music . I started to learn and play guitar when I was 11 years old with my best friend, my brother of heart Fred Chapellier, who is here in France recognized as the n°1 of Blues. We were only kids when we were truant spending our time listening, slowing down vinyls to study and practice every riff, every phrasing of Ritchie Blackmore of Gary Moore and so one… I’ve always been playing with many artists and bands since I finally found the voice I was looking for and decided to form my own band.

Gipsy: I came into music thanks to my parents who decided one day, when I was 6, that a piano would be something nice as a decoration in their house.  Then, have followed classical piano lessons…till I discovered female and jazzy voices !

  • What can we expect from the band in the rest of 2023 and beyond into 2024?

Lionel: Well, we will play in some beautiful venues, and we will be openers for great artists and bands such as Ana Popovic or The Cinelli Brothers for example. We will promote on stage our 2 albums and can’t wait to meet more and more people to share our universe !

  • For someone who wants to know more about the band, were can they find you at? And were can they find your music?

Gipsy: They of course can buy our albums at the end of the shows, but for those who won’t come to France this year, you can find them on our website and legal download platforms here, and please; like, share, subscribe !! Let’s stay tuned !

Web site :       https://www.leeonellbluesgang.com

Youtube :       https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU9bcdZ-UVh2_EM83NxyjFg

Spotify  :         https://open.spotify.com/artist/4uU0QwUeHcEk1e7tsANRjH

Deezer :         https://www.deezer.com/fr/artist/107074722

Facebook :    https://www.facebook.com/leeonellbluesgang/

Instagram:    https://www.instagram.com/leeonellbluesgang/?hl=fr

  • Let’s answer some fun questions, what is your all time favorite band?

Lionel: Black Country Communion !

  1. If you could tour with any band and open or have them open for you, who would you choose?

Lionel: Without any hesitation I would like to open for Joe Bonamassa, Eric Gales, Deborah Bonham …

Gipsy: Joanne Shaw Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Jade Macrae ( who is a fabulous Australian soul singer, and backing vocals for Joe Bonamassa and who has also written with me the last song of our album « This is us » !)

Thanks for chatting with me From the Green Room and look forward to chatting again in the future.

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From the Green Room Feature Band: Little King

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1. What’s the name of the band?

Good morning from Tucson, AZ. This is Ryan Rosoff, singer/songwriter/guitarist for the band Little King. We’ve been making music since 1997, and the new single “Silver Tongue,” is available on 3/25 worldwide. It’s a celebration of 25 years of releases…I think it’s quite a good period at the end of a very long run-on sentence.

2. Where are you from?

I grew up in Seattle in the 1980’s, but all of the music we’ve made since the first album, Transmountain (1997), has been recorded in El Paso, Texas. So, the short answer is almost always El Paso.

I’ve moved around a lot, but our home studio is at Eddy Garcia’s place in EP. He is also the engineer and drummer for Little King. In addition, most of the musicians throughout the years who’ve appeared on our albums are El Pasoans. It’s not the biggest city, but man is the musical history and talent rich. At The Drive In (then Mars Volta and Sparta), Pissing Razors, Khaled, all the way back to Bobby Fuller…the city stacks up pretty well in the grand scheme of American Music.

The unique part of playing and recording in El Paso is that the proximity to the US/Mexican border is a huge influence on the players. Stylistically, there’s always been a great hardcore scene, and there’s also that Latin feel to a lot of music. That combo is pretty fun to work with, and while I wouldn’t ever classify Little King as Latin Rock, the undercurrent is definitely there. 

3. What type of music do you play?

Shoot…you tell me! I like the term “dynamic rock,” as I know we go from pretty damn heavy to quite moody and mellow…sometimes in one song. The new song, “Silver Tongue,” has all of that and more. Because it is a celebration of our history as a push into the NEXT 25 years, I wanted to throw the whole kitchen sink in. And so we did, and the track is about 6 plus minutes long. I’m cool with that…so much to say!

Sometime ago, we were classified as Prog Rock, but the Prog community was kind of like “Ehhhhh…maybe not.” There are a ton of time sigs that hopefully flow well together, and it’s thematic and heavy. If you can’t find something in the new song that speaks to you, then perhaps we aren’t your favorite band! But I am pleased, and I think the almost-prog fanbase will rock out to it.

4. Introduce yourselves to the readers and tell us what you do in the band?

As I said, I’m Ryan, and I play guitar and sing. I’ve also written and produced all of Little King’s music (the name “Little King” is actually a Gaelic translation of “Ryan.”)

Manny Tejeda from Delaware by way of the Dominican Republic is on the bass for the new track, and he’s also played on the last two record, Occam’s Foil and Amuse De Q. The aforementioned Eddy Razor Garcia is the drummer, and he’s been the studio drummer since 2007.

5. This is probably a common question but one that most want to know, what musical

influences did you have growing up, and what are some now?

While it IS a common question, the answer is no less complicated than it was the first time I was asked! 

We all grew up in different places and eras, a bit, although Eddy and I are closer in age and Manny is bringing up the rear. Ed and I both love Rush, Zeppelin, ACDC, and the older metal from the 80’s. Ed is in a Texas thrash band called Pissing Razors, and his influences probably run a bit “heavier” than mine. Manny is a 90’s kid, so he loves Deftones, Korn, etc. Pretty diverse, honestly, and you add in their Latin music roots, and you get a kind of weird hybrid of styles and influences.

I do love hip-hop, especially from the West Coast 90’s era. Also a huge fan of reggae, particularly Peter Tosh. Also recently listening to stuff like Don Shirley (the protagonist from the move “Green Book,”) Scott Walker, John Mellencamp, the Grateful Dead, Tool, and more. So much more…

6. Have you always been into music? Was it something that just came to you

naturally?

I was lucky to grow up on the world’s greatest rock station, KISW, 99.9 FM in Seattle. Man…I cannot tell you how much that influenced my neighborhood back in the 80’s. They had some great DJ’s like Steve Slaton and Bo Roberts who played weird stuff like Billy Thorpe and longer Rush tracks. Rock music was front and center, but no one really played in my family. My bro was a huge influence, too, though. He did play clarinet and then bass guitar, and I stole a ton of his records and had stereo wars with him in our house all the time. Poor mom and dad.

I heard “Xanadu” at about age 11, and then “Eruption” and “Run to the Hills” as well, and I was hooked. I NEEDED to know how to do that! So mom bought me a beat up old Takamine electric, and then my dad got a Washburn acoustic (which I still use) in about 1988. Slowly but surely, I started to learn chords and taugh myself some scales. Still hooked here in 2023!

7. What can we expect from the band in the rest of 2022 and beyond into 2023?

As I said, the new single “Silver Tongue” comes out on 3/25. “Silver Tongue” is the triumphant culmination of 25+ years of Little King releases. This single is a celebration of our history with a bone-jarring right cross into the future. Moody, groovy, heavy, and complex, “Silver Tongue” stands as the quintessential LK opus. 

The band is the same as I mentioned before, and the team is the same as we used for the last album:

Engineered by: Eddy Razor Garcia at Krank Studios in El Paso, TX,,,Mixed by: Daniel Salcido at Command Space Audio in Los Angeles, CA…Mastered by: Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering, California, USA

We also filmed our live shows from last September, so I am editing audio and video as we speak. Hoping to have a good chunk of the shows available as a live video release in the late-spring. Very exciting stuff, as we’ve not released a live album before. From there, we will tour October 7-15 throughout the western US, then we will see our fans in November on the east coast. Would love to hit Europe, too…will see how things go.

8. For someone who wants to know more about the band, were can they find you at?

And were can they find your music?

Thanks for asking! We have everything you need over at www.littlekingtunes.com or on fb/ig/twitter/YouTube @littlekingtunes.  All of our albums are available to stream on Apple Music, and the most recent stuff is also on Spotify etc. If you just search “Little King Silver Tongue,” you’ll find it. But yeah, the web site is a great place to get acquainted and learn more about what we’ve been grinding away on for a long time.

9. Let’s answer some fun questions, what is your all time favorite band?

Oh, I am a Rush geek for sure. Ed would say ACDC, I think, and Manny would probably say Deftones or Korn. You’ll have to ask them, though! Steely Dan and the Talking Heads also get honorable mention.

10. If you could tour with any band and open or have them open for you, who would

you choose?

Dave Grohl and I are of similar age and countenance, I think. Our music fits what he does, too. You know him? Have him holler. Would also love to open for Tool/A Perfect Circle, or maybe someone like Chevelle. Can’t really say too much more, but we will take it if it makes sense.

Thanks for chatting with me From the Green Room and look forward to chatting

again in the future.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:

www.facebook.com/littlekingtunes

www.instagram.com/littlekingtunes

www.twitter.com/littlekingtunes

Little King Official – YouTube

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From the Green Room Feature Band: Dogs Of Ultimo

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  1. What’s the name of the band? Hi thanks for the opportunity to chat today We are lost Dogs Of Ultimo
  2. Where are you from? We are based in Melbourne Australia but a few of the collaborators are in Sydney and Byron Bay
  3. What type of music do you play

Depends on who has been collaborating we have a revolving door of people but experimental based Punk with a hint of Reggae and sampled beats

  1. Introduce yourselves to the readers and tell us what you do in the band?
    Im Pauli I play Bass & Guitar usually start the writing creative process in the Studio preparing the and collecting images of street art for inspiration before throwing it out to the
    collective see whos available to contribute .
    Niel Johnson drums Mix & production
    Ric Newell Keyboards sound sorcerer
  2. This is probably a common question but one that most want to know, what musical influences did you have growing up, and what are some now?
    I grew up in the UK I was influenced by Punk Music Reggae David Bowie
    Im enjoying Alan Vega and Suicide for the experimental music and The Subways
    For their hard edgy driving Bass playing of Charlotte Cooper
  3. Have you always been into music? Was it something that just came to you naturally?

I always navigated to music as a kid I was driven to learn instruments and see
live music I still am I love listening to emerging artists

  1. What can we expect from the band in the rest of 2022 and beyond into 2023?
    The focus is to present The Smells Like Project we are going to record songs that
    Influenced Us but put our distinct sound to it
    We have released The MC5s Looking at you in January and March 12th we
    Police and Thieves the Junior Murvin song The Clash recorded that in the 80s
  2. For someone who wants to know more about the band, were can they find you at? And were can they find your music?
    We are on the usual social media platforms also Bandcamp Spoitfy Apple music
    You Tube etc
  3. Let’s answer some fun questions, what is your all time favorite band?

That changes a lot depending my mood but to pick one it would be Suicide

  1. If you could tour with any band and open or have them open for you, who would you choose? The Subways they are such a power house band they blow my mind there song list is phenonemal

Thanks for chatting with me From the Green Room and look forward to chatting again in the future.

Thanks mate its been awesome to chat

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:

BandCamp: https://lostdogsofultimo.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lost_dogs_of_ultimo_/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077331099830
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0XwoN8qkF3CNq5aQoYf3EC?si=lkEaJOLjT4iqwNMjVqhsGg

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From the Green Room feature band: Tarah Who

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Thanks for taking some time to chat with From the Green Room

1. What’s the name of the band?

TGC: Tarah Who?


2. Where are you from?

TGC: Los Angeles,CA 


3. What type of music do you play?

TGC: Rock, grunge, punk


4. Introduce yourselves to the readers and tell us what you do in the band?

TGC: I am Tarah, founder. I write all the songs. Live, I play the guitar and sing.


5. This is probably a common question but one that most want to know, what musical
influences did you have growing up, and what are some now?

TGC: I grew up listening to Alanis Morissette. Then I discovered The Distillers, Motörhead, tool, RATM, Hole, Joan Jett, etc… Today, I don’t listen to much new music. When I write, I like to keep my focus on the new songs and try to not be influenced actually by what’s happening. 


6. Have you always been into music? Was it something that just came to you
naturally?

TGC: I am not sure how it started… When we were kids, my mom listened to a lot of Rock while cleaning the house. She would really BLAST The Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen etc.. Then I started listening to my own music, and we would spend evenings listening to what I had discovered or playing on my Walkman and Discman. We would just sit for hours playing music while we were lying down on the floor, feeling the vibrations of the bass and the drums etc.. I didn’t realize at the time the impact it has on me now. When I was 10 I remember getting the craving for the drums, I have always been drawn to the instrument, but that’s when my dad didn’t think it was an instrument for girls, even at school the music teacher would slightly smile when I said I actually would prefer to play the drums rather than the piccolo. When I turned 14, I started inquiring about drum lessons. The few teachers I spoke to didn’t take me seriously, so I started teaching myself. Same with the bass. I joined a couple of rock bands and that’s when it all started. At 15, I moved to the US and my English teacher wanted me to keep a journal to perfect my English. That is when I learned to express myself and write. It was very therapeutic. Some of those writings became songs, and I never stopped playing or writing… 

I never really thought of music as a career. It just became that because I take it seriously, and It’s all I have, really. It was never a hobby. This I know. Music is an obsession that I take passionately,

 
7. What can we expect from the band in the rest of 2022 and beyond into 2023?

TGC: Since we are in 2023… We started the year opening for Life of Agony, Prong and Madball. Now we are gearing up again to go back on this UK tour, opening for Wednesday 13, Sick’n Beautiful and South of Salem. April 28, is the release of a new album called “The collaboration project” which I am super excited about. Right before that, I am releasing “Freshmeat Rockstars” which is a new single. 


8. For someone who wants to know more about the band, were can they find you at?
And were can they find your music?

TGC: Everywhere! I think you can just google Tarah Who? and pick your poison. I am mostly active on instagram @ tarahwho , and on Youtube but we are on Spotify and all of those digital platforms we need to be on in this day and age. 🙂  


9. Let’s answer some fun questions, what is your all time favorite band?

TGC: I don’t really have favorites anything… but let’s say… The Distillers.


10. If you could tour with any band and open or have them open for you, who would
you choose?

TGC: I would love to set up a tour with the bands I collaborated with on the new album. So those bands are: Yur Mum, Faul, Bala, Laura Chevalier, October Rain, Carissa Johnson. 


Thanks for chatting with me From the Green Room and look forward to chatting
again in the future.

Thanks for having me!

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From the Green Room Band of the Day-Freedivers

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1. What’s the name of the band?


1- Our band is called Freedivers!


2. Where are you from?


2- We are from Barcelona.


3. What type of music do you play?


3- We play alternative rock music, with a lot of grunge influences.


4. Introduce yourselves to the readers and tell us what you do in the band?


4- Erik: I am Erik and I am the band’s frontman. I sing and play the bass.
     Rafa: My name is Rafa! And I am the rhythm guitar.
     Ferran: I am Ferran, I am the solo guitar.
     Jordi: I am Jordi and I play the drums.


5. This is probably a common question but one that most want to know, what musical
influences did you have growing up, and what are some now?

5-  When I was a kid I really enjoyed pop rock. I also listened to a lot of fantasy
movies’ BSOs growing up haha. Being a teenager I used to listen to bands like My
Chemical Romance and Paramore. I mainly listened to sad music, if I’m being honest! A
lot of catchy, great songs, as well. I soon discovered post-punk, grunge, alt-rock music…
Patti Smith, Jeff Buckley, Nirvana, The Doors are some of my references now.


6. Have you always been into music? Was it something that just came to you
naturally?


6- I’ve always loved art, in some way. When I was a kid I started to draw and was very
drawn to fantasy and cartoons. The deep love for music came I think a little bit more
gradually and found out it was great to expel my demons and monsters and express the
beauty I found along the way. And I basically learnt to play the guitar and sang every
single day. (Well I love to sing and I sing 24/7)


7. What can we expect from the band in the rest of 2022 and beyond into 2023?


7-  There are lots of things going on! We’ll be shooting new videos and releasing new
music that we are already working on. There’s a plan to make a little tour all around
Spain and a few other countries. Hope you watch our media so you stay tuned for fresh
information about concerts, songs and events!

8. For someone who wants to know more about the band, where can they find you?
And where can they find your music?


8- You can find us on Instagram! We regularly upload content and posts about our
events, concerts, rehearsals…
We are also in all major streaming services, like Spotify, Youtube, Pandora, Deezer,
Apple Music, Soundcloud…


9. Let’s answer some fun questions, what is your all time favorite band?


9-  Only one band? Impossible! There are bands that have been there all along the way.
Bands like Joy Division or Nirvana. My favorite sound is alternative rock, especially with
acoustic or ambiental bits.


10. If you could tour with any band and open or have them open for you, who would
you choose?


10- I love Mitski! She’s great and it would be awesome to open for her band. I found
out about her music a while ago and I resonate a lot with it.


Thanks for chatting with me From the Green Room and look forward to chatting
again in the future.

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From the Green Room Band of the Day-Segmentia

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Band of the Day Questions

Thanks for taking some time to chat with From the Green Room

These questions have been answered by Matti Siekkinen.

  1. What’s the name of the band?

Segmentia

  • Where are you from?

Seinäjoki, Finland

  • What type of music do you play?

We call our music Pop Metal from the North. We are mixing pop music song structures with electric and symphonic elements to metal music. Our music tends to be a bit melancholic, but also hopeful!

  • Introduce yourselves to the readers and tell us what you do in the band?

Our current lineup is: Kansana – Vocals, Jere Luokkamäki – Drums, Arttu Vainiola – Guitar and Matti Siekkinen – Bass.

  • This is probably a common question but one that most want to know, what musical influences did you have growing up, and what are some now?

I got into metal music through listening to bands like Stratovarius, HIM, Iron Maiden and Children of Bodom, but there’s a good part of my teenage years where I got heavily into bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, CCR and many other rock bands of that era. Until one day my friend introduced me to Opeth and Dream Theater so that sort of pulled me back to modern day music, haha. Talking about Opeth, lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Opeth again, but I’m not sure how they influence my writing. Not too directly at least, but the melodies and lyrics I come up with are influenced by just about every band/artist I like to listen to. I’m more interested and influenced by moods, themes and the overall feeling of the music that I listen to, so that kinda also shapes my criteria of what type of ideas I find “usable” when I write.

  • Have you always been into music? Was it something that just came to you naturally?

Pretty much yeah. The radio was always on at home playing music all day. I have some early memories of listening to Michael Jackson’s Thriller album on vinyl. It was my favorite record when I was around 5 or 6 years old, and I found it endlessly entertaining to switch the playback speed to make Michael sound like a cartoon character. There are no musicians in my family apart from my cousin, who plays guitar in a punk band, so I became sort of the black sheep of the family with my fascination to metal music and with passion to practice drumming hours up on end.

  • What can we expect from the band in the rest of 2022 and beyond into 2023?

We released our second EP called Alone just over a month ago, so we are currently playing some shows around Finland to promote that. Pretty soon though we’ll lock ourselves to our workspace and start finalizing writing our first full length album while doing some one off shows in between. We have some tour plans for the autumn, but we’ll let people know more about that a bit later. Beyond 2023 we hope to get to release some new music again as soon as we are able and then start touring outside of Finland as well!

  • For someone who wants to know more about the band, were can they find you at? And were can they find your music?

You can find us from all the major social media platforms, but we are probably the most active on Instagram. If you just want to learn more about the band in general, our website segmentia.net is the best place to start. As for the music, Spotify or Youtube are good places to check us out, though our music is available through all the major streaming platforms. And hey, perhaps we’ll find our way to your hometown one day to play a show!

  • Let’s answer some fun questions, what is your all time favorite band?

Ooohh this is a difficult question for sure! I have so many favorites and I’ve had so many of those “this is my favorite band now and forever” bands, until I come across another band that I like even more! Well, if I approach this from the angle of what are some of the bands that have stuck with me the longest and which I still often listen to these days too, it’s a close tie between Opeth and Dream Theater, but please don’t make me choose just one, haha!

  1. If you could tour with any band and open or have them open for you, who would you choose?

I would love us to be able to open for Pain or Amorphis one day! I think we would fit the bill very well and we could learn a lot from either of the bands.

Thanks for chatting with me From the Green Room and look forward to chatting again in the future.

Thank you for the interview! Stay (pop) metal!

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