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VoxAndy

About Me

Midwest-based rock singer/guitarist
...sometimes appearing solo,
...sometimes appearing with Chicago Rock Circus,
...sometimes appearing with who knows?
...and formerly of:
* Calling Grace (2006-2007),
* 28IF (2003-2004),
* Plato’s Republic (1996-2003),
* The Pranks (1995-1996),
* Violet Sin (1990-1991),
* Group of Individuals (1984-1988)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/11/2007
Influences: Wow. Where do I begin? Truth be told, I am an equally huge fan of hard rock, power pop, rockabilly, punk, ska, britpop, jazz, blues, classical, and swing. It all rocks (one way or another). R&B/hip-hop only when actually sung and played, and country only when delivered by real storytellers. Real musicians with real songs and real chops. There's some amazing stuff out there, genre-be-damned, and if we'd actually turn off commercial radio/musicTV long enough to look for it, we might be pleasantly surprised.

THE CLASSICS:
The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Mr. Big, Rainbow, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, UFO, Black Sabbath
LOCAL HEROES:
Off Broadway, Cheap Trick, The Moondogs (God I miss them), Verbow/Jason Narducy, Survivor, Bad Examples, Mighty Blue Kings, Z'Nuff, Elvis Brothers
POWER POP:
Jellyfish, Sugarbomb, Fuzzbubble
DEFIES GENRE:
Elvis Costello, Morrissey, John Hiatt, The Smiths, The Cure, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Third Eye Blind, Oasis, Stereophonics, Bob Marley, Social Distortion
AND THANK GOD FOR:
Sinatra, Mozart, Cash, and anyone else whoever did whatever the hell they wanted and made a big noise about it, too!
AND IF I HAD THEIR VOICE, I'D BE DAMN PROUD:
Eric Martin, Chris Robinson, Ray mother****ing Charles, David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Otis Redding, Steve Perry, Jeff Scott Soto, Sam Cooke, Paul McCartney, RJD, Dave King (Flogging Molly), Ross Bon (Mighty Blue Kings), Andrew Strong (The Committments)
Sounds Like: You tell me...I've heard it all.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

MIA

Been a while since the last blog, but not that much to update about.....writing continues, as well as just enjoying what's turning out to be a really great summer. Started out the season seeing three...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:46:00 GMT

CRC reviews/discussions

In addition to the many cool e-mails and comments CRC has gotten since January, we’ve been made aware of some additional show reviews (via blogs and podcasts).  From the McHenry Countr...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:39:00 GMT

CRC Nellies update

Important update for those planning on a trip to Durty Nellie’s in April for the CRC show;  it turns out I will not be performing this time around.   Rather than the lineup o...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:47:00 GMT

CRC at CCL - D.A.M.N.!

Once again, you people take my breath away.  Awesome huge loud proud crowd at Chicago City Limits this past Saturday;  those among the several hundred that were new to CRC hopefully caught t...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:59:00 GMT

Thanks to all for the Freddies CRC show!!!!

Big fat crazy thanks to the INCREDIBLE crowd that came out to rock Famous Freddies tonight!!!!!   You were all EXCELLENT hosts, most kind in your participation and praises, and I will not soon fo...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:49:00 GMT

Upcoming shows (clarification)

To pre-emptively address some questions about the upcoming January and March shows, they are "just for fun" gigs with a great new project led by former X-Side guitarist/singer Dan Volpe.  I will ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:24:00 GMT

Song revisions!!!

Song revisions for the page, as requested!- Two new suckers added- All posted music updated from teeny little samples to full-length songsEnjoy.  Godspeed....
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:57:00 GMT

Upcoming show, just for fun

Upcoming show, late January 2008.Sitting in with some new friends.....
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:18:00 GMT

Yeah, you


Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:28:00 GMT

So far....

....so good.  (ahem)
Posted by on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT