Hankdawg: Lead Vox, disassembly of random things...
Mike Ross: Doghouse Bass, screams, taking things one step too far
Mike Collazo: Drums, pots & pans, ideas & stuff
Influences
Childhood homes, hypocritical teachers, ex-wives and girlfriends, present wives and girlfriends, angst, deceased pets, fights, freak shows, the circus, preachers, Al Wildcat, The Good Lord (as opposed to the bad one), chicken wings, bad juke boxes, and the fine and not so fine folks of these here United States.
...Fedora used one of our tunes for the music in one of her videos. It's ok folks, check it out, it's just PG13.
Sounds Like
Could someone tell us? We're kind of deaf.
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car·bu·re·tor – noun, a device for mixing vaporized fuel with air to produce a combustible or explosive mixture, as for an internal-combustion engine.
Also, car·bu·ra·tor, car·bu·ret·er; especially British.....
Deemed "to traditional" by psychobilly bands that can't play their instruments and "to psycho" by rockabilly bands that are no fun to watch, The Carburator Cats are a band without a specific place in the forever growing world of musical genres and they don't care. Not enslaved by fashion or a pretentious scene, they set out each night to bring sweat soaked rock and roll from the heart to whoever cares to listen. This is our story.......
The 1980's found Tony and his kid brother Mike rocking out to the funky sounds that shaped a generation, all the while holding onto their repressed passion for the music of guys like Gene Vincent, Elvis, and Muddy Waters as they navigated the nasty road that comes with being raised in the DC metro region. They would form and join many bands along the way without becoming "rock and roll casualties" themselves. Meanwhile, in the wilds of the Pennsyltucky Piedmont region, a young Hankdawg was listening to his grandmother sing Irish Lullabye as she washed clothes in a 1948 Maytag Special, while his grandaddy picked Bill Monroe tunes on a 1935 Stewart. He would soon cut his teeth as a honky tonk troubadour in the famed Delaware underground.
A chance meeting between Hank and Mike in a West Virginia dive bar led to the birth of Two Tone Tony and the Carburator Cats as they were joined by a Baltimore drummer in building their first set followed by a rollicking performance at The Lighthouse in Berryville, Virginia. The group would soon find themselves sharing stages with road tested stalwarts including Dexter Romweber, JB Beverley and The Wayward Drifters, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, and The Marauders. The first chapter in this band's story is ending and a new one will soon begin with the release of their debut album, Snake Oil. Stay tuned......you ain't seen nothing yet!
Inspried by similar vision, a refusal to be pigeonholed by genre, general disdain for one another, and a natural inclination to entertain, Two Tone Tony and the Carburator Cats are bound to do just that!
Brothers & Sisters Come one and all to the Original Church of Chop Custom Hot Rod & Chopper Show! Saturday Nov., 28th at the Iron Horse Saloon in Ormond Beach on US1
Renegade Magazine Biketoberfest Blowout Party! at the Church of Chop show Friday Oct 16th Party starts at 7pm Will be held at Destination Daytona this year! Live Music From the Kings of Hell, Miss Renegade Naughty Nighty Pin-Up Contest! And More! For more info visit http://www.renegademagazine.com
Damn..Friday night...was hoping ya'll were somewhere near Frederick on Sat night...playing on Patrick St in Frederick w/ Hard Swimming Fish Sat evening til 9...WILL see ya'll sometime soon!
