Electric Smoke

Bio:

.. Electric Smoke is a Heavy Blues & Biker Psych 4-piece from the Midwest that studies and creates their sound through the '68-'73 Underground heroes of Hard Rock/Psych-Blues era while bringing it forcefully into the 'Here and Now'. Electric Smoke brings a unique diversity of Rock'n'Roll to the forefront of their live performances; Frontman Landon Shayne McKibben has a huge vocal range from soulful heights to haunting lows backed by a history of a traveling choir. Guitarist Brock McKibben draws roots from Heavy Blues and Underground Early 70's Rock w/ fast leads and monster riffs alongside with Matt 'Frizz' Szafranski that has a bass-slapping Funk/Punk style that brings an intensity to the riffs that the two create together while sometimes even conjuring simultaneous leads. The latter is lined up and supported by ground-ponder Robby Stillings on drums making for great time keeping and heavy fills. (Excerpts) Article by Andrew McGinn, Dayton Daily News — -Describing themselves as “heavy psychedelic blues,” this was the stuff that came after all the love-ins — when acid became heroin, when Woodstock became Altamont, when the Maharishi became Manson. -We’re talking Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, the MC5, Alice Cooper and the Stooges. So far Electric Smoke has been honored to share stages in the U.S. and over seas with bands including: Gravestone Mind (France) Radio Moscow (Iowa, US) Black Market Karma (England) Marcy Playground (New York, US) Buffalo Killers (Ohio, US) Federale (New York, US) Mondo Drag (Iowa, US) Smoke & Feathers (Texas, US) Uncle Meat & The Highway Children (England) Pale Blue Eyes (England) The Main Street Gospel (Ohio, US) Debbie Leggo (England) and many more... For booking contact Nova (937) 450-0515 +

Member Since:

May 30, 2007

Members:

Influences:

Leafhound, BANG!, Gary Moore's Skid Row, Toad, Night Sun, Saint Athony's Fyre, Taste/Rory Gallagher, Black Sabbath, Blues Creation, Randy Holden, Epitaph (Old Fagan's Epitaph), Culpepper's Orchard, Mariani, Orang Utan, Jericho Jones, Horse, Groundshaker, Hairy Chapter, Truth and Janey, Flower Travelin' Band, Little Free Rock, Frumpy, Pentagram, May Blitz, Dust, Steel Mill, Highway Robbery, Tin House, Eloy, Bent Wind, Wooden Shjips, Stone Garden, November, Granicus, Deep Purple, Frijid Pink, Masters Apprentice, Atila (Not shitty Attila) The Rolling Stones,The Gods, Birth Control, Sir Lord Baltimore, Peter Green, Budgie, Lucifer's Friend, Cactus, Guru Guru, Andromeda, Black Widow, Robert Johnson, The Outsiders, Fields, Josefus, Federale, Dead Man, Stonehouse, The Firebirds, Parish Hall, T.2, Buffalo, The Stooges, Geordie, Johnny Winters, Dead Meadow, Blood Ceremony, Rare Earth, Joe Prichard, Motvind, Smokin' Willie, The MC5, Stray, Gravestone Mind, Weed, The Tropics, Bloodrock, Witchcraft, Tear Gas, Grandfunk Railroad, Apryl Fool, Hard Stuff, Flied Egg, Morgen, Robin Trower, Twenty Sixty Six and Then, Power of Zeus, The Amboy Dukes, Baby Woodrose, Marmalade, Light of Darkness, Pearls and Brass, J.D. Blackfoot, Free, Lonely Kamel, Atomic Rooster, Shadows of Knight, early Jethro Tull, The Chocolate Watchband, Loot, The Savage Resurrection, Jeronimo, The Open Mind, Earth, Motorhead, Captain Beyond, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Moving Sidewalks, Wind, Freddie King, Dragonfly, Patto, Skin Alley, Tempest, Wishbone Ash, The Pretty Things, Neil Merryweather, Groundhogs, Silberbart, Canned Heat, Shinki Chen, Coven, Lincoln St. Exit, Demian, Christopher, Bedemon, Blue Cheer, Nazz, Cosmic Wheels, Fraction, Blue Mountain, Fat, Shaky Mallard, Zior, Morning Dew, Humble Pie, Strawberry Path, Speed/Glue & Shinki, Edgar Broughton Band, Graveyard, Orphan Egg, The Allman Brothers Band, Zoot, The Kinks, Cream, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Michael Yonkers Band, Tygers of Pan Tang, Help, Mountain, The Lollipop Shoppe, Radio Moscow, The Ramones, UFO, Survivor, Witch,early Alice Cooper, Jo Jo Gunne and infinite others...

Sounds Like:

1971