Jefe (Dr. Chocolate): Westwood Dave Flying V signature model, Hondo, Traynor, vocals
Kevin Stacey ("Dr. Who") Old ass Fender bass, vomits.
Ryan Peterson (Sgt. Danger) : drums, reggae vocals, Ally Sheedy Fan
Kirk French: Tequila, Whiskey, harmonica, hype-man, and all things related to booking
Jason De Leon (Bug Light): vocals, Ritchie Valens Signature Stratocaster, traynor ygm-3, Double Muff, D-28, 000-15, ibanze TS-9
Ben Wentz: organ grinder, baritone guitar, pee-hole judge
Influences
The Ol' Dirty Bastard, Neil Young, Fear, Catholic Discipline, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Charles Bukowski, The Drive-By Truckers, Uncle Tupelo, Ernesto Hemmingway, The Misfits, Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, At the Drive-In, Manu Chao, David Alan Coe, Los Tigres del Norte, Youth in Asia, Johnny Cash, 16" ossilating fan, Kissing Booth, WhiteFlight, Townes Van Zandt, Ronnie Van Zandt, Ronnie Dobbs, Ritchie Valens, Black Sabbath, Black Flag.
Sounds Like
Rock and roll music. Remember what that use to sound like?
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The Wilcox Hotel takes its name from a song by the seminal LA punk band Fear. On the surface it is difficult to understand why a State College, Pennsylvania
based band whose sound has more to do with Mid 1970’s Neil Young, The Drive-By Truckers, and Nebraska–era Bruce Springsteen, would choose a
name from one of the most notorious and irreverent bands to ever come out of Los Angeles.
The reasons are simple. From 1994 until 2002, band members Jason De Leon and Geoffrey Vasile made up ½ of the Los Angeles based hardcore punk/reggae band Youth In Asia. Youth In Asia blended elements of early LA and D.C. hardcore with reggae in attempts to emulate their heroes Bad Brains, The Clash, and Fishbone. In the eight years of the bands existence, Youth In Asia recorded two full length albums (“Absolutely Nothing to Fall Back On”-Dental Record 1996 and “This Side of Janky”-This Guy Records 2000), were featured on a series of punk rock compilations, and completed two U.S. tours. Youth
In Asia broke up in 2002 when De Leon started graduate school in anthropology at Penn State.
Vasile moved to State College in 2003 and together with De Leon started The Wilcox Hotel in 2005. Band Members Kirk Straight (guitar and mandolin) and Ryan Peterson (drums) joined the band in the Fall of 2005. The punk rock spirit and ethos that characterized Youth In Asia, was carried over to The Wilcox Hotel. However, this time The Wilcox Hotel is attempting to blend elements of country, folk, rock, and punk with lyrics that reflect the most visceral (and often miserable) parts of the human experience. Given that De Leon works and has lived in Mexico and on the Southern Texas border for years, many of the songs describe experiences of the downtrodden souls who cross the border, those that
pray on the weak and disenfranchised, and generally the darker side of life.
In addition to the aforementioned influences, The Wilcox Hotel also draws
strongly from bands such as Uncle Tupelo, The Carter Family, Los Tigre del Norte, Johnny Cash, and Townes Van Zandt. All of these country influences are filtered through a series of distortion pedals and over-driven amps and
regurgitated as the bastard step-child from some country-rock nightmare.
The Wilcox Hotel have played extensively on the East Coast since 2006.In the summer of 2006, The Wilcox Hotel completed a 12 day tour of Mexico with blues artist Brownbird Rudy Relic. The band play ten shows in 12 days and visited the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcala, and the Federal District of
Mexico (Mexico City).
In July of 2007, The Wilcox Hotel completed the recording of their debut record. The new album by The Wilcox Hotel entitled “The Sacred and the Profane” is a 12 song fable about good and evil, where the moral of the story is that you can never draw a clean line between the two. The title is fitting given that De Leon’s lyrics describe a world where the “sacred” is often wrapped in hypocrisy, greed, and hate, while the “profane” can show us that beauty lies both in madness and in the recognition that hate and love are impossible to disentangle. In this era
where it is all too fashionable for “songwriters” to make crude and uninformed political statements railing against everything under the sun, De Leon attempts to paint a nonjudgmental picture of the faces that hide behind and underneath the American flag (“Homecoming”, “Coyote Blues”), the cross of self-righteousness (“Second to Jesus”, “Ties that Bind”), and broken bottles of rye whisky (“Weekend”, “Glass”).
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Janky
1. The epitome of dirt, grime, and disrepair.
2. An action word that denotes bad taste with admiration.
i.e. Check out that one-eyed cat, he sure is janky
or
Dude, I can't believe that you made out with her in the dumpster out back, you are so janky. I'm proud of you.
hey jason. i found some old pics from the tour to jellyfishconsin. soon as i scan um i will post um. nice to see you guys are doing good. hearts, paul i
HEY JASON COMO ESTAMOS? BIEN POR THE WILCOX HOTEL...HEY YA HACE MUCHO TIEMPO QUE NO SE ABSOLUTAMENTE NADA DE TI JASON NI DE LA MISMA BANDA. POR LO QUE VEO ES QUE YA SACARON UN DISCO EN FORMA ...AHI ENVIAMELO POR FAVOR SALUDOS DESDE CD. SAHAGUN, HIDALGO MEXICO... SEGUIMOS EN CONTACTO. ARNULFO.
I can't believe The Wilcox Hotel is nearing the end, and I can't even make it to the last show! Well I still need to at least get some CDs before you leave State College!
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I can't believe your last show is July 19, and I won't be able to make it! You need to play another gig between now and then some night when I can come out!
As your completely obliterated new #1 fan from the downtown LA loft scene screamed last weekend, "I love the new record!" The record is tight, the live shows are fantastic, the band is the shit, and everyone leaves the shows genuinely inspired - that's what good music is supposed to do. Thanks for rolling out to the west coast - viva el Wilcox Hotel.
Listen, ive written damn near 200 pages of dissertation that 10 people are going to read - six of whom are my parents and my committee. Ive been staring at bivariate plots for the last hour and I think im developing carpel tunnel, so I want some goddamn blog updates from the road and I want them now!
Sorry I missed the party and the Darkhorse show last week. I was out of town visiting family. Otherwise you know I would have been there! Hope the tour is going well. -Marc
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