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About Me

Like all good rock bands, Mad World came to life in a garage. In the summer of 2003, Jimmy Kleary, Joe Diehl, Scott Hurst, Bruce McKern, and Kevin McKern came together in the Mckern Garage and Mad World was born. A few years back, the Mckern brothers and Scott Hurst made up 3/5 of the "Rogues". Playing all over southern oregon, the hot spots and the not so hot spots. They recorded one album "Half The World Away". In early 2001 the brothers met joe at a session the three of them were called in to play on. The brothers and joe each thought to them selves "Man I'd like to be in a band with that guy". Not long before that, joe had moved from the bay area where he was a well known guitarist in many bands including "JGB". In 2002, joe and the brothers got together to make up 3/4 of the Blues/Rock/sideshow, band "Somebody and the So and So's". At the end of that year joe moved out of the area and Jimmy was asked to come and play, Jimmy came to the Rogue Valley from Sacramento where he was an in demand vocalist and performed with many groups including "Steel Breeze", but before the So and So's got up and running again, the other original member left the area. And then there were three ! Knowing that they had found the voice they had been looking for, for a long time, the brothers introduced Jimmy to a huge catalog of songs they had been writing, recording, and hording in their garage. Knowing this was too much fun to be just a recording project, they called scott and he came in with a bunch of great tunes. Trying to find a second guitarist proved to be a little trying, but then one day the phone rang and it was joe saying he was moving back to the area and wondered if there was any music happening. If nothing else, this band proves that you never give up, you never say never and every once in a while things do line up right.Stay tuned.....

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Member Since: 2/18/2007
Band Website: This B It !
Band Members: Jimmy Kleary - Vocals/Joe Diehl - Guitars, Vocals/Scott Hurst - Guitars, Vocals/Bruce McKern - Bass, Vocals/Kevin McKern - Drums, Vocals
Influences: Since all the guys have such diverse musical backgrounds, you would have to say their influences range from, Classical to Blues, Scotch/Irish folk and bagpipe music to 70's and 80's power pop, Classic 80's metal to Bluegrass, Cool Jazz to Arena Rock.
Sounds Like: A circus in your ears, or maybe feeding time at the Zoo ! Hell, we don't know. What do we sound like to you ? Or maybe it sounds like a Loud Wet Fart in Church !
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Happy New Years Thank You !!!!

You all Seriously Rock !!!! Thanks for being part of our MAD WORLD !!!! A few of our friends need to be mentioned here..... Jay, who has been with us since shortly after we got on myspace, has been a ...
Posted by Mad World on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:50:00 PST

Our Great New Friend, Dawn !!!

We are so lucky to have Dawn as our friend. She has an Awesome radio show !!! Go check it out !!! If you're lucky, you may hear us on there, and if you're even luckier, You'll get to ...
Posted by Mad World on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:24:00 PST

unpleasantness = Good Song ?

We've posted our newest song "Oh". It's a ruff mix right out of the garage, but we kinda like it and thought Y'all might like to hear it too ! It's always been funny to me how some of the most unpleas...
Posted by Mad World on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:22:00 PST

Miss ?-Brat

This is a special Thank You to our Special Friend for all the Support and Kind words !!! Miss ?-Brat, Please know that you are so Loved !!!!! Always !!!!
Posted by Mad World on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:44:00 PST

Friends who inspire !!!

We just wanted send out a BIG THANK YOU to our friends who have inspired us and who continue to inspire us !!! You know who you are and you know how we feel about you !!! You ROCK !!! And to miss ...
Posted by Mad World on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:56:00 PST

New Song and Great Pic !

Howdy Friends, Thought it was time for a little change. "Reason" is the newest of our new songs ! The picture on the player when "Reason" plays is our really good, no, Great frie...
Posted by Mad World on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:33:00 PST

Our Friend Jay ROCKS !!!

Besides being our good friend, Jay is a very talented designer. Check out her space page and her website girlkhaos.com She is the Real Deal !!!
Posted by Mad World on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:06:00 PST

New Pic ! Don't run away, it's not of us !

Our friend Jay in our T-shirt ! Yea, it took us a while to notice the T-shirt too !!!
Posted by Mad World on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:53:00 PST

Back by popular demand !

Howdy Friends ! Some of you have mentioned that you missed hearing "In The Way" and "Real World", so we put them back on. Enjoy !!!
Posted by Mad World on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:36:00 PST

Time for a change !

Every couple of weeks or so, whether we need to or not (Just like our underwear) We try to change the songs on here. They say "Change is good", so we did the songs. Now, about that underwear ....
Posted by Mad World on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:27:00 PST