In late January of 2006 guitarist Manuel Robles and drummer Steve Mendoza were both music addicts and seeked to start a band in Manuels garage in Whittier. After few practices Steve introduced cousin Robert Acuña (guitarist) to Manuel to help fulfill the rock music interest within the band.
After getting a few songs written, the next step was to find a rockin lead singer to help front the band and begin to write material. After a long seach, Rob discovered Jonathon Gillette online and with his help the band was able to continue moving forward at a hundred miles per hour.
After having Jon within the band for a month or two we began to look for a bass player, but before we could search Steve-O decided to leave the band in search for different musical projects.
With the band back to just 3 members, Manuel, Rob, and Jon, practices began less frequent and the band didn't look to have a future. But as much as Rob wanted to keep writing music, he didn't stop to look for members when he came across Henry Flores, drummer, online as well. With his insane taste in music we began doing some cover's of some 80's metal/rock bands. Once we worked on those for about a month we found our sound and began writing material and planning birthday parties!
No bass player? No problem. Once the band bgan playing birthday parties/backyard shows, Jon's buddy Frank was happy enough to fill in. Although from the begining Frank was unable to be permanent, we took our chances, continued to write music and played our first venue August 12, 2007 at the Whisky a Go-Go in Hollywood.
As Frank had other priorities in his life, we had to say goodbye to Frank, but we were fortunate to find another bass player days before playing the Whisky again. Joey Mercado , another buddy of Jon's, found out we were in search of a bass player and stepped in. With his killer attitude and influence with rockin music, he fit right in.
In late June and early July, when we thought nothing would stop the Stallion, differences in the band and a look into the future of the band resulted in Henry's departure. As the band seeked to continue to the next level Henry's decision to leave put Rogue Stallion back to finding more members.
Although in mid July 2008, Marco Leon, high school buddy of Rob, took up the offer to play drums for a last minute show at the Roxy in Hollywood. But with work and school schedules interferring with time for the band Marco would unfortunatley be unable to continue playing with Rogue Stallion.
After posting many ads, Mike Holland (drummer) discovered one of them and responded immediately. Within a 2 weeks time of jamming, the band knew Mike was the guy to take the stallion to the next level and with Mike's love for music, he's about ready to help make some head's explode!
Our name, ROGUE STALLION, was a total mix of words without knowing what the meaning of it meant. Once we found out what it meant, it just stuck. Now we just do what we love to do...
...write music and rock til your chest explodes!
ROGUE STALLION : A stallion having an abnormally savage or unpredictable influence over one's spirits
