Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, REO Speedwagon, Blondie, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Ted Nugent, Georgia Satellites, Go Go's, The Cars, Cheap Trick, J. Geils Band, The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Puddle Of Mud, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Boston, AC/DC, Greg Kihn, Steve Miller, Queen, Tommy Tutone, Aersomith, Head East, Styx and MUCH, MUCH, MORE!!!
Movies
This Is Spinal Tap!, Crossroads, The Buddy Holly Story, La Bamba, Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story, Great Balls Of Fire, The Decline Of The Western Civilization Parts 1 & 2, Walk The Line, Coal Miner's Daughter,The Idol Maker, American Pop, That Thing You Do, A Hard Day's Night, Grease, Yellow Submarine, The Song Remains The Same, The Kids Are Alright, What's Love Got To Do With It, Help!, Ray, Tommy, The Magical Mystery Tour, The Jazz Singer, Moonwalker, KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park
Television
The Next Greatest American Band, American Idol, VH1, VH1 Classic, MTV2, The Grammy Awards
Books
No One Here Gets Out Alive, KISStory, Queen: The Early Years, The Rolling Stone Encylcopedia Of Rock & Roll, Top Pop Singles 1955-2002, Freddie Mercury, KISS And Sell, Images Of The Beatles
Heroes
Our families. Our friends. Then, in no particular order... Pat Benatar, Lynyrd Skynyrd, KISS, Queen, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, The Police, The Cars, Rush, Dolly Parton, Glenn Campbell, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Willie Nelson, The Cars, Ozzy Osbourne, Patsy Cline, Billy Joel, Duran Duran, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Dokken, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Cheap Trick, R.E.M., U2, The Bangles, The Go-Gos, ZZ Top, Amercia, Three Dog Night, Iron Maiden, Manowar, Type O Negative, Johnny Paycheck, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Statler Brothers, Styx, Ted Nugent, Grand Funk, Guns N Roses, The Georgia Satellites, Golden Earring, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Phil Collins, Genesis, Sting, Black Sabbath, Pure Prairie League, Kenny Loggins, Kenny Rogers, John Denver, and Michael Jackson. Just to name a few...
About me: Welcome to the 2nd Hand webpage! 2nd Hand is a Cresco, Iowa based band performing classic rock from primarily the 70's, the 80's, and the 90's. The group was started in April 2003. Our main goal is not big record contracts or fame! It's to entertain, and have fun! And that's what we do! Check out our pics from some of last year's shows, or from some of our previous shows! 2007 pics are coming soon!! And our upcoming gigs are listed above under our blogs!! Feel free to leave a comment and let us know you were here!! 2nd Hand is: Melissa Laue - Vocals; Mitch Laue - Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards; Todd Kramme - Bass, Vocals; Michael McDaniel - Drums, Vocals; Dennis Niedert - Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards. For bookings, contact us through this site!! Or e-mail Todd at kramme@netconx.net. Or e-mail Mitch at onemanjam@yahoo.com. Or call Todd at 563-379-4411. Or call Mitch at 563-203-0918.<
Don't know who we'd like to meet, but here's who we'd like to thank!!! 2nd Hand would like to thank Leigha, Skylar, & Makaila Skadsem, Tristin & Braden Laue, and Madison, Jacob, Madisyn & Brinley McDaniel, for your undying patience and support. Thanks to Leigh Wilson for help with the photos and everything else!! Thanks to Heather Knudtson for helping with photos too! Thanks to Dave Reed, Mike Laue, Brad Dull, Tiffany Martin, Dale Skretta and Steve Stone for all your help & support. We wouldn't be here without you guys too!! Todd would like to thank Matt Reimann, Dean Havlik, Rob Gilstrap, Dennis O'Neill, Ted Smalley, Jeff Knavel, and Mike Trettin for providing inspiration and for their loyal friendship. Jeanie Byrnes for her support. Cody Demaris for helping me set up this site! And to Brian Keller for keeping me from getting beaten up all those years ago! And thank you Minnie, for being my best friend for 14 1/2 years. I still miss you. Michael would like to thank Mike & Linda McDaniel for "bringing him into this world!", and everyone in the big city of Fairbank, Iowa! And lastly, a HUGE thank you to all our supporters, for helping to get us to where we are! Wherever that is... Especially those of you who have followed us to almost every show!! You know who you are, and so do we!!!! Thank you
...sombody on my friends list wrote a real nasty thing about you in a blog they just wrote you need to see this, i dont know why either, sorry, but here is the link to it...
well, the horseshoe has big bands play there all the time with more than 3 people. everyone loves it, it gets full of people in there and rocks out. if it was too small, then why are there bands there all the time?
there is the horseshoe, whiskey grove and tanks. they are all at the intersection. lol. and they all have had djs and bands lots and lots of times. the horseshoe has bands almost everywkend. they had 2 bands last night and mississippi band is playing there tonight
