Jack Fox, Guitars and Vocals - Larry Williams, Guitars & Vocals - Marv Egolf - Bass & Vocals - Stanley Hall, Drums, Percussion
Influences
Beatles, Eagles, SCN&Y, Eric Clapton, Cat Stevens, Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Lynard Skynard, The Band, Michael Hedges, Dave Mathews, and on and on and on
Sounds Like
Great guitar & percussion work along with wonderful harmonies
Jack Fox
Vocals and Guitars
Scanning as far back one could, Jack was searching out his love of music. Read on as he reflects back on the days while riding in his Mom's Chevy Corvair...
In that car with his brothers, Steve and Scott, they would ride to the New Jersey shore and sing three part harmonies in the back seat. All this while the radio played ‘The Beatles’, ‘The Beach Boys’, ‘The Rolling Stones’, etc, etc, etc.
At the age of twelve, Jack convinced his family that he really wanted to play guitar and began taking lessons at Sid Kliener's House of Guitars (Califon, NJ). It didn't take long before he was writing his own songs and trying to get a band together to play them.
The first band (The Red Coats) was born with some fellow musicians from High Bridge, NJ. A great band name though probably the best part of this band was the red Nehru jackets that Jack's Mother sewed together for each member of the band. (He’d like to have one of those today!). This band didn't stay together very long as it became evident that with spring also came baseball, basketball, girls and all of the other outdoor activities that young boys like to get into.
Music from this point on however became one of the constants in his life. If there were to be only one passion he could keep in life, music would have to be it. It has been the one thing to keep the sanity through the times of good and bad.
Jack has played large and small venues, with full bands, small bands, duo’s and as a solo artist. He is always ready to play and at his best when he is in front of an audience with mic’, guitar, and a song.
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Larry Williams
Vocals and Guitars
Larry began performing in high school as lead singer and guitarist for an Iowa garage band known as Grandmas Rockers (www.grandmas-rockers.com). Their FredLo label album is worth more than the Beatle’s White album. In college Larry went acoustic with a vocal trio emulating Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. His music got put on a back burner when he went to graduate school to become a research neuropharmacologist. Larry kept his voice in shape through participation with several master chorales as his science career took him from Michigan to California and Maryland. Over the last couple years Larry returned to public performance as a singer of acoustic and electric pop-rock-folk music in and around Bel Air and Havre de Grace, and established a home recording studio. Now performing with Jack Fox, the two of them have developed a tight blend of vocal and instrumental excellence in the incarnation of Beerdz-Hill-Rode.
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Marv Egolf
Bass & Vocals
Marv has been a mainstay for many years in the music scenes from Philly to Baltimore/Washington to DC to the Atlantic resorts. He has been a lead singer in groups like The Decades, a Motown/R&B 10 piece band, and The Deacons, an originals, blues, rockabilly, alternative roots group. He has been the bassist and one of the lead singers in bands like Scrimshaw, Head Over Heels, 2BitRevue, Fabulous Sluggos, Graffiti, Tommy Roberts & The Tristeros, Blues You Can Use and Gamler's Ramblers (aka The River Band). He performs individually at various coffeehouses and fundraisers. When not appearing with KING LEWMAN, he can be found onstage with Beerdz Hill Rode.
He has also been a booking agent, manager, promoter and producer for groups like Tregwater, The Illuminati, Richard Taylor & The Ravers, Silent Partner, Fate, and, of course, bands for whom he plays through the auspices of his company, LGM Enterprises, Inc. and its subsidiary, Thuh SwitchingYard, an arts, events and media consortium. Marv is the performance coordinator for Open Door Cafe.
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Stanley Hall
Drums, Percussion
Stanley Hall is a musical polyglot. He plays drums with a percussionist’s perspective and percussion with a drummer’s drive. His sound is a sonic gumbo of hard-nosed rock ‘n roll, R&B grit, and jazz swing, with New Orleans second line strut, timbale fireballs, and world percussion thrown in for flavor.
He has put all of these styles to good use with a wide musical spectrum of local bands including Michael Hedges, Charlie Don’t Surf, Hipnotic, Mascaraid, the Mobtown Hipcats, Symbiont, and Baltimore party legends Mambo Combo. Stanley’s calling card is putting the right note in the right place with the right feel. He can slam like jackhammer or play with a featherlight touch, whichever the music demands. He may play drums or he may just use an ashtray and a pack of Tic-Tacs – you never know.
FANTASTIC old-school bar band playing! The classics endure, and you guys prove conclusively that Rock and Roll is ageless and timeless. Thanks for kicking it out and keeping the faith!
