William Benton (guitar,vocals); Mike Clifford (drums); Rev. Brian Foor (organ, Fender Rhodes, Hohner Clavinet) and Axel Cooper (bass).
Note: Jonah O'Neal was original bass player.
Influences
carnival rides...colors such as black, gold, and pink...religious paraphernalia...smoky rooms...sexy women...also, musicians such as billy preston, pink floyd, minutemen, sparklehorse, elvis costello and the attractions, television, ike and tina turner, prince, flaming lips, debris', saccharine trust, and others.
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Originally, it was Just Mike Clifford, William Benton and Jonah O'Neal. The first Tyrone show was "Mikefest", Feb. 3rd, 2002 at the BRYCC House.
later, brian foor was added. (One of these days we might unearth dates and make a sort of timeline. Maybe.)
By late 2002, the band had taken a break and reformed for a few shows. Jonah left and Axel descended from the heavens to replace him.
Tyrone's first show with Axel was the following year's Mikefest at Aslans How.
In the the Spring of 2003, Tyrone recorded what was originally going to be demos but what eventually became "Numinous", released by Noise Pollution Records in the Fall.
From here it all gets blurry but in early 2004 Tyrone recorded some songs with Chris Owens for an album that never came out. Listening back I am very proud of some of those songs.
We did a Spring tour that was a week long or so down south. Far from a successful outing, I remember the beautiful weather and nice people mostly.
I think Tyrone's last show was at the end of May in 2004 at Za's.
-Benton
Noise Pollution link to Tyrone stuff: http://louisvillenoise.com/v2/bands/tyrone.htm
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Greetings earthlings! Glad Tyrone decided to come out of the black hole and play live at Cahoots. Hang on...Cahoots IS a black hole! but sounds exciting. see you there.
Thanks for checking us out fellas, dig your stuff and have done so for a while, when we were The Middle Men, I believe we played a show or two with you guys...Dig it though fellas, good luck. Peace.
