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Signal Trip

About Me


Blending some of the best rock n' roll ever created and a lot of energy into one harmonious musical unit, Signal Trip is a professional rock band located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The band takes pride in the group's chemistry, energy, and unique blend of original songs and classic rock tunes.
The repertoire includes our original rocking songs and selections from The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Tom Petty, CCR, Def Leppard, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, The Cars, U2, Journey, The Beatles, INXS, and Boston to only name a few. Grand Rapids has a very healthy local music scene, and the members of Signal Trip enjoy having the ability to play for music lovers all over Michigan.
Our all original debut album is now complete...you can pick up a copy at our website, or download from iTunes, Amazon.com, emusic, Rhapsody, or Napster.
If you are in GR we would like to see you. Show information will be here and at our web site:
http://www.signaltrip.com
We want to play your venue! E-mail us at [email protected] today.
Our band has played in Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, Allegan, Kalamazoo (at Wings Stadium), Paw Paw and Owosso at bars, restaurants, private clubs, house parties, festivals, and wedding receptions. We are fun and professional and willing to help make your club, bar, party, or private event a night to remember. Let us know when you would like to have us play and we will do everything we can to accomodate your event schedule.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/02/2006
Band Website: http://www.signaltrip.com
Band Members: Pat Piechocki : Vocals & guitar
Joanne Weir: Vocals
Kevin Schaefer: Drums
Ken Pitchford: Bass
Jim Bayes : Guitar

Influences: The Rolling Stones, Van Halen, The Black Crows, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Pretenders, Def Leppard, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, INXS, The Beatles, INXS, The Cars, U2, Boston, Collective Soul, Lenny Kravitz, ZZ Top, Van Morrison, Joan Jett, Eric Clapton, Pat Benetar, Foo Fighters,Steve Miller, and others.
Sounds Like: Driving rock and roll music.
Record Label: INDEPENDENT

My Blog

Updates - Plenty of Updates

It has been a while since we've posted a blog entry. We ended 2008 with some gigs leading up to another New Year's Eve at Tavern on Kraft. We started the year at Florentines and then spent a few mont...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 15:52:00 GMT

Changes.

Signal Trip had two performances on September 13th. In the morning we played at the Heart Walk in Grand Rapids, a fund raiser for the American Heart Association. The Heart Walk was the farewell perf...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:11:00 GMT

The Album Is Complete!

After a year and a half we have completed our first CD and was recorded at River City Studios in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ten songs: nine written by us and one by the Stones. The Rolling Stones song ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:54:00 GMT

Festivals

Signal Trip will be headlining IslandFest in Grosse Ile on Saturday, May 31st, from 8 until midnight. This is huge for us and we'd like to see as many people there as possible. Our physical CD goes ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 03:54:00 GMT

Studio Update

Today we finished recording the instruments for our album and we'll get the final vocals over the next week or so and mix all together in two weeks. We're really excited about completing our CD and h...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:05:00 GMT

Studio Update

As December was starting we, in the band, decided that January will be the month we finally finish the album. Individually and collectively we wrote nine songs and figured that we'll take off a month ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:50:00 GMT

The CD Will Be Completed This Month

For a long time we've offered two of our original songs for free download from our web site and from the MySpace music player.  Those two songs will appear on our debut album which we will finish...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:44:00 GMT

New Years Eve Pictures.

Saying good-bye to 2007 was a lot of fun. We played for five hours and had a great time with the people at Tavern on Kraft. Here are some photos.   Later, Jim was wondering if played something e...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:37:00 GMT

Our Return To Tavern

Had it really been nine months since the last time we played Tavern on Kraft? Our return gig last Saturday was a lot of fun. We played extended sets because it seemed wrong to have people stop dancing...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:15:00 GMT

Deer Widow’s Party

We had a great time playing for a fun bunch at the Dorr Moose Lodge. On Saturday we were taking requests and here is a sample from our "Wipe Out" jam: Steve from Unknown Legend stopped by fo...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:54:00 GMT