Will Plowman-Vocals
Brant McCrea-Bass
Joe Scott-Guitar
Scott "Gub" Conway-Guitar Jonez Jones-Keyboards
Mike Marius Masset-Drums
M.I.A. Band Members:
John Airo-guitar
Joseppy Defily-guitar
Influences
We are influenced by life as it happens all around us on a daily basis; and need to bring forward thanks for great ground breaking bands like: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Devo, The Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, the Residents, Gwar, the Pixies, Janes Addiction, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Mogwai, Nirvana, Slint, Fugazi, the Smashing Pumpkins, Naked Raygun, and so many more. . .
Sounds Like
Sounds like a crack of thunder hitting you in the ass and telling you to wake up and smell the garbage and STOP SLEEPING IN IT ! ! ! . . .and its a blistering heap of power rock.
Check out our videos, they say it all. This band needs to be seen to be truly understood. I recommend it, you will be smarter once you've had the experience.
The STREETWISEMEN is an order of righteous rock musicians surrounding blind and homeless STREETWISE vendor and front man, William Plowman: a.k.a. "Wicked Willy Yonkers". The music is a refreshing return to fun fast rock and roll with an artsy twist. It is riff and solo heavy and the message is clearly parallel to the experiences and challenges of Will's life. Born with cataracts, Will's lenses were taken out at birth, which was the start of a long and frustrating road for him. It was one that eventually left him in his adult life jobless, and eventually homeless.
Until he met the STREETWISEMEN, friends and local musicians from various groups, who banned together to give Will a voice. Will Plowman is a leprechaun of a man, standing about 5'6" with a head of wild red hair and beard. The band, always in costume, has a dynamic sound that takes elements from great classic hard rock acts and energizes them to a fiery tempo as a bed for the words of Will. Being legally blind for most of his life, Will wasn’t much for T.V. The radio was his escape, and through the years, he has become something just a little short of a rock and roll fact book. In a time when society was turning its back on Will and his life was looking like it was coming to a grim ending, rock and roll took him in. Now, armed with some of Chicago’s finest undiscovered rockers, “Wicked Willy Yonkers” is on a mission to reclaim his life and put his hat in the ring for rock stardom because, “ROCK AND ROLL, WILL SAVE OUR SOULS! ! !”
oh my god i saw willy outside of memories last fri night with a dress shirt and tie on, he said you guys were going to record soon. love my streetwisemen....
I ain't missing in action... I'm chasing the storm. See you all for the Cupcakes show.
Don't piss me off, though, or I'll throw my laptop at you.... it's insured.
I cant wait to F'ing
rehearse again...Streetwisemen+rehearsal
instant F'ing Party.I mean our tour
is going to be insane...I hope I dont die
I know I wont die but ahhh the last
west coast tour whoooooaallll yyy
Jonez threw his lap top out the 33rd flr
hotel window for 1 was sicK...I almost drown
with Kate T in Venice B. 4 day partys sheeeet.
Brant rented thee helicopter for the afternoon with his nw fan Relia and almostlost it to the
H Hills ect ect
So I'm yr friend now thats effin' awesome as seeing I almost totally forgot what your music sounds like and mostly what i remember is shaking one of the many guitarists hands and the metro back in Sept. I certainly hope you guys save our souls rock on . . .
