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About Me

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The Balls: Three middle-aged men who make noise.
The Balls: They refuse to play nice. They will not turn down.
The Balls: There are no words. There is no damn singing.
The Balls: They will bust your pigeonhole upside the head.
The Balls: They will make it up as they go along.
The Balls: These guys can play. One has a grammy.
The Balls: They write theIr own stuff. Each piece Is different.
The Balls: They play garage rock. They play prog rock.
The Balls: They will surf rock your ass off. Their songs are long.
The Balls: They play songs with weird time signatures.
The Balls: You cannot talk or pick up chicks when they play.
The Balls: They will pick up the chicks.
The Balls: They will take you on a trip.
The Balls: You will have many musical adventures.
The Balls: You will find what you seek. New questions will be asked.
The Balls: Refreshments will be served.
The new Balls CD : "The Balls...Come Out Swingin'!" is now available!
get it here:
www.cdbaby.com/cd/ballsmusic
or here:
www.guitar9.com/comeoutswingin
www.ballsrock.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/14/2005
Band Website: ballsrock.com
Band Members: Nick Kane - guitar
Rick Taylor - bass
Joe Scheibelhoffer - drums
Influences: Davie Allan, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Rory Gallagher, ZZ Top, Link Wray, Led Zeppelin, Beggar's Opera, Lonnie Mack, Jeff Beck, Chuck Berry, Free, Mountain, Vanilla Fudge, Gentle Giant, Cactus, Dick Dale, Bert Jansch, Pink Floyd, Gene Vincent, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Gary Moore, Bach, Miles Davis, Humble Pie, Wishbone Ash, Incredible String Band, Cream, Can, Small Faces, Howlin' Wolf, the Ventures, Colosseum I & II
Sounds Like: Davie Allan, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Rory Gallagher, ZZ Top, Link Wray, Led Zeppelin, Beggar's Opera, Lonnie Mack, Jeff Beck, Chuck Berry, Free, Mountain, Vanilla Fudge, Gentle Giant, Cactus, Dick Dale, Bert Jansch, Pink Floyd, Gene Vincent, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Gary Moore, Bach, Miles Davis, Humble Pie, Wishbone Ash, Incredible String Band, Cream, Can, Small Faces, Howlin' Wolf, the Ventures, Colosseum I & II
Record Label: www.monogenuss.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Nick Kane is a judge at big Rock & Pop contest in Germany

Hey! I'm a celebrity judge at the big "Hessischer Rock und Pop-Preis 2007" on October 28th! Ain't that sumpin? Check it out: http://www.drmv-hessen.de/Festival_2007/festival_2007.html.. .
Posted by The Balls on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:49:00 PST

COME OUT SWINGING RELEASED IN EUROPE!!!

I'm happy to announce that the Balls kick-ass CD "Come Out Swinging" has been released digitally in Europe on the Monogenuss label and will be in the stores in November. Also, Nick Kane's earlier solo...
Posted by The Balls on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:37:00 PST

New Reviews: 20th Century Guitar Mag, Performer Mag

20th Century Guitar magazine, June 2006 With a name like The Balls, and a CD with a title like Come Out Swingin' you better be good or you'd never hear the end of it! Such is the case with the CD deb...
Posted by The Balls on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:45:00 PST

amazing review @ Nashville Scene

Here's quite a review by Jack Silverman at the Nashville Scene: "THE BALLS From the bands name to its album title, from the photo of scantily clad Panty Raid Dame Lula Licious in boxing...
Posted by The Balls on Sat, 20 May 2006 08:54:00 PST

Balls on iTunes

boy, talk about gettin' yer knuckles off the ground! Click the the link to download 'The Balls...Come Out Swingin' into(onto,whatever) your iPod http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/...
Posted by The Balls on Mon, 15 May 2006 06:56:00 PST

Phil Dirt review

Check out what the legendary Phil Dirt at Reverbcentral has to say about the new CD: http://www.reverbcentral.com/reviews/b/balls5449.html ...
Posted by The Balls on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:32:00 PST

Press Release

check out our first officious press release (giggletygigglety): http://www.mi2n.com/category.php3?cat_nb=1&page=1 ...
Posted by The Balls on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:14:00 PST