Fave bands? Old school Man: The Four Horsemen, Brother Cane, The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, L.A. Guns, Faster Pussycat, Crue, Live, Soul Asylum, The EELS, Gin Blossoms, Cry Of Love, The Crows, Social Distortion, Blind Melon, The Tragically Hip, Garbage, Joan Osborne, Rage, Zombie, Love Chain, Amanda Marshall, The Vanished, One Up, Primitive Radio Gods, Jackyl, Candlebox, Local H, Headstones, Garlic, Space Hog, Macy, The Porch Ghouls, Petty, Imperial Drag, The Refreshments, The London Quireboys, recently... Danko Jones, Robert Plants.
Big Bender, Neverset, Big Bender, Damage Plan, Drowning Pool, and my band STRANGLEWEED
Movies
Television
Books
Heroes
My Mom, Dad, family and friends and anyone going through a serious illness.
I appreciate everyone that stops by to say hi. I will try and answer you as fast as I can, but sometimes it takes me a while to get back to ya. Oh yea, and my "Official Kenn Youngar Myspace is Dead. I lost the password and email linked to it.
MY BIO AT A GLANCE
Born:Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Independent drummer, marketing/sponsorships for 720 Action Sports, Owner/Ceo Youngstar Inc., reality show personality, Owner of Flash web design company WebbingCrashers.com, rep for www.Made-In.US.com
Currently Drumming for:Strangleweed (on hiatus), Sweet Crude, Bigbender.
Residence: Drumsville, Texas, USA
Performed as main support with: Ric Emmett (Triumph), Lillian Axe, Styx, L.A. Guns, Angel, Bullet Boys, Pretty Boy Floyd, Faster Pussycat, Cowboy Troy, Molly Hatchet, Seven Mary Three, Tantric, Fastball, Blackberry Smoke, The Romantics, Tracii Guns, and Drowning Pool.
Movie Soundtrack Credits: Hempsters: “Plant the Seed” with Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson (In Production), The Long Shot. 2nd Movie in history to shoot the entire 96 minute movie in one take. (2006)
Videos: Strangleweed “Belief” (2007), Turning Point “On My Way Home” (2007),
Strangleweed “Cocaine & Alcohol”
Television: Eye for an Eye: “The Bar Poured a Stiff One”, E! Channel “Top 10 Best Courtroom Moments”, VH1 “Top 10 Most Outrageous Courtroom Moments”, VH1 Daisy of Love.
Tours of mention: Performed overseas with the Armed Forces Entertainment division in support of Canadian, Australian, British and American Troops in Japan, Singapore, Diego Garcia and throughout the Pacific (2006-07)
Kenn nationally toured with Turning Point as main support for Immortal Recording Artist ADEMA for over 30 dates. (2007)
Mentionable acts performed with on the ADEMA tour: Alice Cooper, Heaven and Hell featuring Ronnie James Dio, Queensryche, Shadows Fall and Evans Blue. (2007)
Charity: Kenn helped organize and perform a 10 day tour of Costa Rica in support of the Roberta Felix Foundation benefiting underprivileged children of the rain forest with 5 American, 1 Mexican and 11 Costa Rican bands. (2008) Co-organizing “In Rock We Trust” concert series benefiting Rain Forest Aid 2009, Costa Rica, Central America.
Kenn also performed with Nikki McKibbin of American Idol for “Rock the Cure” cancer benefit. (2008) Hurricane Katrina, Breast Cancer, Tsunami Relief and www.RainForestAid09.com and The Shaken Baby Alliance.
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Committee Nominations:
Turning Point for the 50th annual American Grammy Awards (2008). Their nominations were for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rock Song by Duo or Group with Vocals, and Best Rock Song.
Endorsements/Sponsorships: Page Drums, Peace Drum Hardware, Dirt Bag Clothing, Dragon Sunglasses, Monster Energy Drink, Bajito Onda Clothing Company, S-Drum Hoops, LosCabos Drumsticks, Kristie Luv Style, Todd Bloom House Design Accessories, Sun Bru, Lizard Spit Drum Polish, Skins Wraps Drum Graphics and Rock n' Roll Gangstar Clothing.
Will do--I'll keep you posted! The Fourth was a blast! My big bro(you met him when you were here)and all my crazy cousins came to the beach for the holiday! I was raging for my birthday on thru the 6th!! What a week! Got on the list for a liver transplant...hope ur well :)
CR was wicked fun as usual! Hope you made it home for one night and your trip to Canada was good! Let me know when you get home...we'll have a beer!!!!!
Thank you hunny! rawl! I wanna go with you next year!!!!! Actually I'm planning to go to Colombia by the end of the year with some friends... wanna join us? Love
sorry i messed up your necklace! did u get it? we promised years ago to spend always 4th of july together. damn! no golfing again i guess. tell brendan hi 4 me! loved seeing u.