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Long before cell phones and the internets, but after microwave ovens and mood rings, sometime around 1983, Tracy Leonard, owner of the then popular music club Parody Hall, suggested to local KC music cat Joe “Guido Toledo” Welsh the possibility of doing a weekly Tuesday night rock jam session. A Monday night blues jam at Westport club Blayney's was doing bang up bidness, so why not?
Guido called up Gary Charlson, Pat Tomek and Richard Streeter, three talented and locally well known players (all legends that could last a lunchtime), to see if they had any interest in doing the gig.
It was during that very lunchtime at the long gone Submarine sandwich shop they decided to call themselves “Shirts & Skins” after the practice of removing your shirt in boy's gym class to become an opposing team member. Harmless, eh? Get it? Good.
Not really caring about the quality of the product they were presenting, the foursome rehearsed and found out that between each of them “playing in different bands together” over the years they had more than a hundred or so songs they could play very loud. And very fast. Very fast. And did I mention loud?
Their first gig was to be opening for Joe “King” Carrasco on a Saturday night, followed by the first regular Tuesday installment at Parody Hall the following week. Upon arrival at the gig, the band discovered that Mr. Leonard had renamed the band “The 4 Sknns” on all the posters announcing the Tuesday night jams, saying only that he thought it “sounded funnier.”
Thus, The 4 Sknns were born.
You can read more at www.4sknns.com!
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