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Mercy

Mercy Soul for Yo' Lil Bad selves

About Me

Since Monterey was put on the map oh so long ago by flaming Strats courtesy of Mr. Jimi and the most soulful singing ever uttered by Mr Otis, it's been a little slow....yeah there's a blues festival and a famous jazz deal too....but Mercy thinks that isn't often enough.....we wanna pump it up a bit more often than twice a year....and we're gonna do just that....was on the bill at the 2008 Monterey Blues Festival...our blues will take yo' blues away!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/30/2007
Band Members: We're real glad to have Melissa Jones back with us on lead vocals, John Micheal is providing mucho bombast on lead and backing vocals, Stew Pilkenton on searing, or is it soaring lead guitar?, Mike Holland from Honey Hush and years on the road with Sam Kinison and Randy Hanson is now on bass, Nick Vasquez is bangin' on drums and Larry Randolph is usually wondering which chord comes next on rhythm guitar.....
Influences: Electricity........Women Who Sway to and fro......children who giggle unashamedly....
Sounds Like: Thunder molesting Lightning
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Bass Player in Mercy

Our kick ass brutha on bass, Chris Burke has moved on to other projects, we're gonna miss his animated, inspired energy alot..Mike Holland from Honey Hush and years on the road with Sam Kinison and Ra...
Posted by Mercy on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:17:00 PST

Recording

Thanks to the  music students at CSUMB, their teacher Paul Contos and all involved in setting up the all too brief session today...great facility and good vibes made it pretty easy to lay down 2 ...
Posted by Mercy on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:33:00 PST

Updates, Inflatable Dates

Not really inflatable dates, we haven't resorted to such nonsense......yet....So....we're recording some originals on the 10th of Dec at CSUMB, and adding some new covers to the mix as well...Tim Burk...
Posted by Mercy on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:55:00 PST

Rock & Art Festival DVD

Courtesy of Tim Burke, we have a DVD of our gig at the Monterey Rock & Art Festival last July......despite a couple of microphone mishaps, it's pretty good...'specially cranked up thru the Surroun...
Posted by Mercy on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:56:00 PST

Last Saturday Night at Monterey Live

Thanks to all who came out as rocked with us....we realized afterward that the last set was 2 and a half hours long!......Lordy..Was good to have Melissa Jones chirpin away again and Georgette Berry's...
Posted by Mercy on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:36:00 PST

Killer Gig at the Duck

Wow!..Mercy (or the majority of) has been wracked by long standing viruses for the last month...which peaked at our Monterey Live gig this week..arrghh...a horrid experience....sorry's  to all wh...
Posted by Mercy on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:17:00 PST

Missin Sista Melissa

Mercy homegirl Melissa has left to pursue some of her own material....aargh!...but we shall perservere...This girl stepped right up to the plate with us and let it fly...it's gonna be strange without ...
Posted by Mercy on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:20:00 PST

Gigs, Originals & Mercy

Jeez, this band is catching on sumpthin fierce...exceeding my personal expectations anyway...clubs be calling, we be sayin Yes.....and as of last nite, we have 2 originals in the can..moving lil Mercy...
Posted by Mercy on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:04:00 PST

This Encore At Monterey Live Is.....

Being received as quite the compliment by Mercy..the gig Monday night was really good as we've never had a sound man before, Ben was quite the capable fellow and was a boon to making us sound as good ...
Posted by Mercy on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:12:00 PST

Monterey Live & Larry's Birthday....FUN!

Well that turned out well..Thanks to all who showed up........T'was really nice to see folks out on a Monday nite, boogien' and smiling....and Melissa's version of Marilyn Monroe's Happy Birthday was ...
Posted by Mercy on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:27:00 PST