Rodcore (vocals, acoustic gits);
"Dirty Walt" Kibby (vocals, just being a bad m*&$%..r);
JMR (gits);
Elliott (Big Pop) Lawrence (bass);
Kerim Aaron Imes (drums)
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Influences
SOUND BARRIER, The Virginia City Revival (they also have a page here), any be-bop era jazz, Living Colour, 24-7 Spyz (the original line-up), Fishbone, the Dubber (check out www.thedubber.com, this guy is amazing!!), Coldplay, U2, Dead Kennedys, Jane's Addiction, the MIGHTY MIGHTY BLACK FLAG (I don't care what anyone says, I saw just about every vocalist this group has had and HENRY ROLLINS KILLS THEM ALL), Ice Cube, THE INCREDIBLE RASTA ROCK LEGENDS THE BAD BRAINS (get any early footage of this band you can, they are the mightiest four piece that has ever existed in terms of their stage show), the Beatles, Sly and the Family Stone, EARLY Bob Dylan (when that muthafucka at least TRIED to sing), Glen Campbell, Rick James, the Nymphs (google Inger Lorre people, PLEASE), Joy Division, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers and hell the list could go on into infinity. We're not into a lot of new music, we find that trends are starting to annoyingly repeat themselves and we are just waiting to be excited once again by something new, or even something not so new but just great.
Sounds Like
Fishbone, 24-7 Spyz (the original line-up!!), Bad Brains, Black Flag, Fugazi, Tupac Shakur, Coldplay, Maxwell!
Walter “Dirty Walt” Kibby will be the first to tell you: “I love my former group, Fishbone. I’m a founding member and I was in it to win it until recently. Even now I wish them all the best, their success is my success. But I felt it was time for me personally to move on and try some new things.”
For this multi-talented individual this includes fronting his solo project, Dirty Walt and the Columbus Sanitations, and…YEAR OF THE DRAGON.
Year of the Dragon happened almost as an accident. Says co-vocalist Roderick “Rodcore” Palmer, “I also sing with Walt in Sound Barrier. We had recorded a slew of great material for that project, but due to circumstances beyond our control we had to halt S.B. for a short time. I had some free studio time with a friend who wanted to help us out, so I said to Walt, ‘Hey man, let’s just go in and knock out a few songs. No filler, no frills.’” Dirty Walt enthusiastically agreed.
The duo got in the studio with drummer John Montgomery and Spacey T, another former Fishbone soldier and founding member of Sound Barrier (known during the 80's metal heydey as the first black metal band of that period), who played all the guitar and bass tracks. They didn’t have high expectations other than having a little fun and just killing some time, but they were all surprised at how the recordings turned out.
Sonically, there are elements of Dirty Walt’s former group in the mix, but the reggae, funk and hip-hop influences are mined deeper. They even take a chance with an acoustic song. Says Rodcore, “We felt the need to do something stripped down. Since this recording was not meant to be much more than us logging studio time in, we figured it’d be fun to be more musically adventurous.”
The membership has evolved and now alongside Rodcore and Dirty Walt is JMR on guitar, Elliott (Big Pop) Lawrence on bass and Kerim Imes on drums. The one thing Year of the Dragon share with Fishbone is a frenetic, powerful live show. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” says Dirty Walt, “and I know I can’t come with anything less than what the people are used to me giving them. The shows still gotta rock hard and with hardcore intensity.”
Year of the Dragon is the whole package…great songs and lively, energetic live shows from veterans in the game. Dirty Walt states it best: “This is our year, man. We can’t lose. We won’t lose. Ya dig?” (FOR BOOKINGS OR RELATED BUSINESS, PLEASE CONTACT OUR MANAGER KRIS KRAUSE, ESQ. AT krisjkrausesq@yahoo.com OR HERE ON MYSPACE AT http://www.myspace.com/krisjkrausesq)
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