Pete Worden(guitar/vocals),
Brad Krow(drums),
Tom Zelinski(upright bass)
Influences
Robert Lockwood jr., Van Howard, Carl Perkins, Grady Martin, Little Walter Jacobs, Merle Travis, Joe Maphis, Pee Wee Crayton, Hank Garland, Charile Parker, Elvis Presley, The Five Royals, Scotty Moore, Blues, Jazz, Honky Tonk, etc.
Pete Worden remembers the first 45 record his parents gave him as an eight-year-old. He says it was an RCA record, Elvis's cover of Hound Dog, flip side Don't Be Cruel. When he heard those sides, his fate was sealed. It really kicked, says Pete, that killer guitar, and beat, oh man.
However, Wordens early music career, the Elvis 45 notwithstanding, wouldnt necessarily indicate his current path. He has always had a diverse taste in music, and his personal collection, ranging from jazz and classical to roots music and heavy metal, reveals not only his taste in music but also his maturation as a musician. After playing cello and clarinet in grade school, he settled on electric bass for a large part of his early professional career. He toured nationally in the 80s, playing bass with hard rockers Ice Water Mansion.
When that band broke up, Worden began pursuing his love of jazz and his interest in moving from bass to guitar. He studied jazz guitar. and played in numerous blues bands around Buffalo. He had always written songs, so fronting his own band gave him an opportunity to play originals alongside blues standards. One of his songs, Christmas Time Again, was placed in the LeeAnn Rimes movie Holiday in Your Heart, and appears in film and TV shows each season.
But he never quite forgot the thrill of that first Elvis 45. More country and rockabilly crept into his record collection and into his playing until he formed a rockabilly trio. In 2002 they released their first CD Rock-A-Way containing 10 songs written by Worden.
Pete Worden and the Hardtimers's Friend Space (Top 4)
we leave Buffalo for 3 months, the second night home next week we WERE planning on getting hammered and dancing up a storm to you guys at Mohawk...and now i hear your not playing and even worse some band i never even heard of is playing a show there instead on the 6th....this is no good. NO GOOD. ahhaa either way, if your playing anywhere the 6th let me know, the three of us need a place to celebrate our reuniting!
I was at Flogging Molly last friday and then a big local show last night. We were gonna go to that show for a little bit then mohawk or back and forth but all our friends bands were playing far apart from eachother.
Im sorry. I REALLY wish I was there. Its probably the best thing in Buffalo, being at Mohawk at your show on Friday night.
Well, ashley and lex are in Brooklyn now but I'll try my hardest to be there if you guys are playing fridays in march..
OHHH MAN! i cant wait for Friday night im so excited to go to the Mohawk and watch the fabulous Pete Worden and the Hardtimers!!!! haha love ya Dad! Victoria
Hey pete , im the guy filming the buffalo hot rod movie. i'll be at your next mohawk show so we can meet and hopefully talk alittle about the film. later.
Rockin' show last Friday!!! You guys are wonderful! It was great to talk to you and London. See you Friday. Maybe you can play a Tennessee Ernie Ford tune...maybe Shotgun Boogie???
