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SMOKSTIK

About Me

SMOKSTIK was born in 1995 in Boston, Mass. It features the skills of KINGVEGAS on the Warr Guitar and drums. SMOKSTIK put out its first CD in 1998- Bugs- on its own Supergod Recordings label. After playing shows all over the New England region KINGVEGAS decided to move back home to St. Louis, MO. SMOKSTIK has been on a bit a hiatus for a few years but is now being revived, revamped and reintroduced to the world.
SMOKSTIK has played shows with artists such as Project/Object, Colin Hay, The Pushstars and many many others in venues such as New York City's CBGB's, Boston's Middle East, TT the Bear's and House of Blues, St. Louis' Mississippi Nights (RIP) and The Hi-Pointe (RIP) and many others.
KINGVEGAS is working on new material SMOKSTIK's long-overdue 2nd release entitled II.
CHECK OUT SMOKSTIK AT KINGVEGAS WEBSITE !!!
Also check out the new KINGVEGAS STORE featuring tracks from KINGVEGAS artists including Smokstik. If you download our tracks here we get all the money. Only 99 cents!!! Coming soon- custom merch as well as songbooks, instructional books and other fun stuff!!!Bugs CD's are available online at CD BABY .

BUY A SMOKSTIK CD!!! Bugs was released in 1998. It's a 7-song EP featuring some heavy, jazzy and funky tunes. It features KINGVEGAS on the Chapman Stick and Hillary Koogler on the drums. Check out Hillary's band at Jaded on Myspace . You can buy it online at CD BABY.COM or just order it most anywhere you would buy music. Check it out!!!


CHECK OUT THE SMOKSTIK SWAG AT OUR SWAG STORE!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/12/2005
Band Website: http://www.kingvegas.org/
Band Members: KINGVEGAS- WARR GUITAR AND VOCALS
Influences: Soul Coughing, Rage Against the Machine, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Brown, Al Dimeola, Allan Holdsworth, Chuck Prophet, Ben Harper, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jonas Hellborg, Jaco Pastorius, Marvin Gaye, The Funky Meters, Ministry, Screaming Headless Torsos, Buckethead, Stanley Clarke, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Beastie Boys, WuTang Clan, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Ultraman, Godzilla, Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, Gamera, Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Thomas Paine, Albert Einstein, Farscape.
Sounds Like: Rage Against the Machine, The Beastie Boys, Soul Coughing, Primus
Record Label: MUSIK-STL
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Why...

Why do I play music? For the money- well, yes and no. Does money motivate my artistic decision-making? Certainly more in recent years. I've struggled with the desire to create vs the desire to live a ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:47:00 GMT

WORKING HARD.........

THE SUMMER IS COMING TO AN END SOON but the temperatures here in St. Louis are blistering!!! It's supposed to be 107 degrees today! we're not used to that kind of weather. I've been practicing quite a...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:56:00 GMT

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope that all of you kicked off the New Year in festive fashion!We played a great party at the Ritz with Swing Cat Swing and it was a blast!!!Now it's time to make some resolutions for the New Year....
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:25:00 GMT

Happy 4th of July!!!!

I hope that you're all having a great 4th!!! Here in St. Louis folks eat pork steaks and play washers. I'm not sure what I'm up to quite yet. We played our first Smokstik show in 4 years last Friday a...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:05:00 GMT

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh...............

You know that feeling of lying in bed at night not worrying about what you need to get done for a moment and feeling cool, fresh air blowing over you and just closing your eyes and not thinking of any...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:11:00 GMT

Workin' the Warr!!!!

Hey there!!! I'm trying to get back into the business of writing, producing and performing original music these days. The teaching is going great and I'm doing a wide variety of cover gigs but I reall...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:06:00 GMT