Jerry Lee Queen: Bass & Vocals
Greg Gatlin: Guitar & back-ups
Captain D: Drums
Bobby "The Trouser Snake" Balboa: Guitar
Influences
Turbonegro, Supersuckers, Zeke, Bad Wizard, George Thorogood, Nashville Pussy, New Bomb Turks, Dwarves, AC/DC,etc.
Sounds Like
Big, loud, fast power rock. Very tongue and Cheek lyrics, songs written to rock not to inspire or move you. Good times! Rockin' toons! Cheap Booze! Eazy women! Black Knots are Go! ................(How to buy stuff)..........
Black Knots - "Hellbent to Kick it out" (CD)is now availble from Oil River Records
for $12.00ppd "pre paid delivery"..
send checks/moneyorders to --
Oil River Records,
PO Box 666 ,
Huntington WV ,
25711
.. As well T-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. are also available. Just enquire
..BLACK KNOTS
Along the Ohio River in the heart of Appalachia lye’s a band that on one hand separates themselves entirely from their region and on the other represents everything that demands respect in small town America. In a time where rock is looked at as a commodity rather than an attitude based driving force, our music community has been left cheated. When people speak of the music that summarizes the reason they fell in love with rock, often their conversations are based on memory and nostalgia. Once upon a time rock meant big, it meant caring for things you weren’t supposed to and apathy for what you should. It meant girls, drugs, late nights and fights. It meant tomorrow you might not wake up… “But that was a justifiable risk to follow the party!” In Huntington West Virginia, a small town on the border of three states a band had done something where so many others have tried and fallen short. Remind us why we loved rock again.
The Black Knots are a band built on few but valued principles. The ridiculous and over the top for other bands is only the “setting of the bar” for the Black Knots. Rock should be attitude, it should be bigger than life and over the top because that is the ideals that it was built on and ideals perpetuated since its inception. Little has changed because adrenalin does not evolve, it either is or isn’t. Rock is soul, heart, love, addiction, blood, sweat, hate & want. The Black Knots are the hunger for the drug without the “flaccid disappointment” given by other bands that can’t provide it.
At bare bones the Black Knots are a rock band. There style is built on power based songs, rooted in blues premise with enough tongue and check undertones to make you question the seriousness of the band in its entirety. That brings us to the other anchor and principle of this band, the idea that well written songs in a party packages is a palatable drink for every rock fan. Just because a song is complicated does not mean it has to be deep and just because a song is simple does not mean it has to be stupid. At root, the Black Knots walk the line of AC/DC, Turbonegro, Danko Jones, Nashville Pussy, Devil Dogs, Zeke, George Thorogood and the New Bomb Turks. Many bands similar but different, uncompromising but the same. There will always be cookie cutter bands regurgitating popular styles and teen movie representations of suburban angst. At least in the reigning rock community there is a level of comfort in knowing that the airwaves are a little dirtier due to the Black Knots doing what so many other bands forgot was possible… Kickin’ it out!
“They are a high-energy cross of old punk textures and Social Distortion-esque song writing. Loved them.”
Graffiti Magazine, March 2005
“They’re fast, aggressive and all-natural, the kind of band that will remind you why you like rock ’n’ roll.
‘Shawn Beckner’ Herald Dispatch, May 19 2005
(e-mail: Blackknots@yahoo.com)
THE BLACK KNOTS LIVE IN DETROIT "Redefining What Kick Ass Can Be!" off their upcoming album "The Guitarmaggedon!" 5/17/08
THE BLACK KNOTS LIVE IN DETROIT "Born With A Tail (Supersuckers Cover)" 5/17/08
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It's on now!!! Glass City Nightmare brought you by the Kings of Sleazy Ass,Hustler reading,Burrito eatin,six stringing,whiskey chuggin,orange van drivin trouble called The Black Knots!!!!!
Black Knots, Black Knots, Black Knots! We're way lookin' forward t'sharing stage with you here in Toledo in August. Digg'n yer tunes on the Myspace page too. Y'all's badass & proper for helping our cause of bringin' some hand-wringin', mudbootin', brow-sweatin', blue collar southern justice t'the rust-belt music scene. Head up 23 & Bring yer Big-Sandy-tude & Mothman bred brutha's & sista's t'join our congregation for a night of drinkin', kickin', slitherin' & slothin'! Yibbitty Yabbity Yow, kapow & kablow! Wow. Rickety Rocketty Roo!!! Mountains & monsters too. Huh? YeeeeHaw & RRRRaaaaarrrr!!!!! Yeah mans, git ugly & see y'soon.
Hey mate, how’s it going? It’s been crazy on this end, just letting you know that I just got back from Los Angeles and have lots of new tunes to show for it (a few of these tracks will be up on my myspace very soon :). The Pre order is up and running at www.reneecassar.com.au so if you’re keen to get in there before anyone else does there are t shirts, guitar pics, posters and other kool shit to tickle your ear drums….
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