SCOTT TOURNET -- Vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, lasers
BENNY YURCO -- Lead and rhythm guitar, vocals, lasers
JOHN ROGONE -- Bass guitar, vocals, lasers
STEVE SHARON -- Drums, laser accompaniment
MATT BURR -- Drums, laser accompaniment
Contact Info:
Artist Management - Jen Crowell, Crow Artists
(e) jen@bluesandlasers.com
Junior Kimbrough,
Pink Floyd,
Buddy Guy,
Neil Young and Crazy Horse,
The Rolling Stones,
Roy Buchanan,
Led Zeppelin,
rock & roll from the 1960's and 70's,
Technology,
The Black Keys,
Otis Taylor,
The Who,
Rage Against The Machine,
The Allman Brothers,
Spiritualized,
Wilco,
Ernest Ranglin,
Miles Davis,
Rebellion,
Not being trendy,
Jimi Hendrix,
Sonic Youth,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Sly and the Family Stone,
The Staples Singers,
Muscle Shoals,
The Faces,
Peter Prince,
ZZ Top,
Bob Dylan,
Charles Bukowski,
Stax/Booker T. and the MG's,
Otis Reddding,
Son House,
Captain Beefheart,
Frank Zappa's guitar solos,
Ali Farka Toure,
Phish,
Rick Rubin,
Muddy Waters,
early Santana,
Tom Robbins,
John Lee Hooker,
The Velvet Underground,
Lowell George,
Daniel Lanois' production,
Fela Kuti,
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings,
Benevento/Russo Duo,
AC/DC,
White Stripes,
The Black Angels,
Freddie King,
Lightnin' Hopkins,
Little Feat,
Albert King,
John Lennon.
Sounds Like
Delta Blues, Rock, Trance Blues, Deep Space, Star Wars, Guitar Rock...I don’t even know.
Burlington, Vermont’s formidable rock quintet Blues and Lasers formed in 2007. The band is the electric sonic brainchild of Scott Tournet, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Tournet, currently one of Grace Potter’s Nocturnals, recruited four other players to complete the lineup and flesh out the band’s sound – forceful, swampy, blues, heavy on rhythm (courtesy of the two-drummer combo) and slide guitar. Mastering the elusive low end pulse is John Rogone, a finger bass guitarist and backing vocalist. Driving and grounding the rhythm section are drummers Steve Sharon and fellow Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' drummer, Matt Burr. Contributing songs, vocals, and guitar is Ben Yurco, a sorcerer of electric tree and dimed out fender amplifiers.
Blues and Lasers incites obvious comparisons to the Black Keys and the Allman Brothers Band, while songs such as “22 Times” evoke classic Robert Johnson blues imagery about selling ones soul. The “Lasers” concept of the band’s name and sound was coined several years ago after an impromptu jam where Tournet and several friends described what they had created as, "sounding like blues with some lasers.” It is the group’s “Lasers” side that allows their songs to stretch into psychedelically laced Delta-blues improv jams, easily seen on their debut EP which consists of five songs that last about forty minutes. After recording the EP live, raw and dirty in a vacant club in Burlington over two days, the guys spent the next couple of weeks tweaking the sound, or going “a little OK Computer on what they had previously recorded” and adding all the “lasers” they saw fit.
"Breakin' My Heart" Performed at Sullivan Hall - NYC, filmed by - Duke Street Productions
My Dear Blues and Lasers, I want you to know that your music and your songs are my passion. I am addicted to Blues and Lasers. There is something that pulls me towards them. Keep it up Blues and Lasers. Di PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
ROFL Just listening to Sullivan Hall ... And heard the guy at The beginning "It's like The Nocturnals w/out Grace" Personally ... I think it's like Blues and Lasers!!! Any October Dates in the works?
I totally digged your free show in burlington yesterday! This band has so much energy and I soaked all of it up. I danced my ass off! Keep on, keep on!
Ran into Benny today ... Boy is he stoked about the new CD! "The 6 songs we got vocals on? Perfect. Scott is a genius!" When he finally left (talked for an hr while his friends sat waiting to order) Dave said ... "I wish he could muster some enthusiasm!" 8*)
Are you really recording??!!??!! I hope so! I was just wondering yesterday if you guys were ever gonna release anything new, anytime soon. I hope you will keep us posted on your new recordings!!
Hi! We are just fighting with twitter...jesus this website has some server problems whole the time;) Do you have twitter? What do you think about the idea behind it? Hope your day rocked your socks off, Keep on good work and think about us - it's spring and everybody needs love;)
