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Two Tone Tony & the Carburator Cats

"...and also in yours!"

About Me

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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.
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!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/20/2007
Band Members: Tony: Guitar, over-analysis

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.
Sounds Like: Could someone tell us? We're kind of deaf.
Record Label: call us & we'll talk
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

UPDATE!!

First, thank you to everyone who came out t the fall and winter shows. We were somewhere different every weekend and we had a blast playing for everyone who made it out.  Lets see, we t...
Posted by Two Tone Tony & the Carburator Cats on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:38:00 PST

Area Band Forces Music on Unwilling Listeners!!

Mike talked to a drummer on the phone a few days ago about possibly jamming with us.  The young man had seen our flyer in a music store, where we clearly listed what we are into and what we are d...
Posted by Two Tone Tony & the Carburator Cats on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:38:00 PST

Booking, show calendar, songs, etc

First and foremost, THANK YOU  to everyone who has come out to shows, added us as a friend, shared the stage with us, had us at their place, came to our place, so on and so forth.  We'r...
Posted by Two Tone Tony & the Carburator Cats on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:26:00 PST

The Juke Box Cold War

Mike and I went to a bar that shall remain nameless last night for some dinner after loading some equipment up for an upcoming show.  Mike immediately saw the "internet juke box" that was bo...
Posted by Two Tone Tony & the Carburator Cats on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:15:00 PST

Drummers

A wise man once told me that when you look in the mirror in the morning, you're looking at the only person in the world you can depend on.  Faith aside, I can't disagree. That being said, we are ...
Posted by Two Tone Tony & the Carburator Cats on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:23:00 PST

Well I'll be a ham sammich with raisins......

So there I was, surfing around on the interweb under my personal profile and I land upon a profile of a person I never met before.  Imagine that happening on myspace! Ok, so the interesting part ...
Posted by Two Tone Tony & the Carburator Cats on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:30:00 PST