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Alot of people have been asking about band of strays,is it the bands name or what. Band of Strays is a name we gave ourselves.cause thats how we saw ourselves as being like strays all the places we've been..Its a name for a band thats had many different names and alot of different people in the line-up,we've played all across America and in parts of Europe,We called ourselves Band of Strays cause we really never cared for haveing a band name,and a band thats had many names as i said,we just wanted to rock and were happy for being taken in and allowed to jam most places,just like wild strays..The original and core of the group was J.Padraig Bell aka Padraig James on Bass and vocals..Chuckie Weiss on guitar and vocals..and Donny B. Mullins on drums and vocals..we were known as the scarabs mostly then and we started out in Detroit with old chevy van with slideing platform for the drums and generator,We started out doing hit and run shows,we..d pull up at lakes,parks and house parties whip out the gear and start jamming,usually till the law came and stopped the rockin..needless to say we had lots of tickets and few overnite stays..Just 3 longhaired kids from Detroit trying to do what they loved..From there we headed out to other points in America and added other members to the line-up..the rest of the asylum characters have included...Kenny Stuebner/Guitar from Nashville...Penny White/Keybords From OHIO..Jimmy Moffit/guitar,Detroit..Kenny Freeman/guitar ..detroit..Tim Collins/Drums detroit...Robbie Rodriguez/Guitar flint..Josh Groves/Drums orange county Cali...Chris Scarapella/guitar orange county Cali...Bob Montgomery/drums houston..Mike McCormick/guitar N.Y./San diego..Billy Emmons/Sax detroit... and all of the others who briefly sat in and helped keep us rockin..Danny,Kenny..etc..we all started out with love of our local favs..Iggy,MC5,Grand Funk,Brownsville station, Mitch ryder and few english rockers T.Rex.Mott the Hoople,Alex Harvy Band,from there we evovled to incorperate many styles and generes in out tunes..Goth, Blues,Punk,Alt,but we are and forver will be a Detroit garage band just trying to rock..We..d like to thank everyone who let us jam with them or along side them in support..Chuck Berry and his Daughter for our first big gig..all the detroit clubs how let us jam under one banner or another..To Shane Mcgowan and the Pogues for letting us follow them around europe all those years and share the stage..Nico R.I.P...like to say sorry to the Adverts,for takeing over the stage even thought we probably sucked..LOL..to every one in Austin Tx./Atens Ga. houston,nashville,knoxville and every city inbetween who took us in and let us jam all the bands who let us crash and share a stage u know who your are..To all our L.A. friends were we spent alot of years..everyone at jumbo..s,Central/Viper room.loved monday A.A. meetings.you'd had to be there..Joe Walsh for the Mile square show takeing a chance on band you'd never heard to share the stage with..and of course Matt Zane and Society 1 who definately put the sex in sex,drugs and rock and roll.morty coyle,stacey grenrock..To everyone who was in my Band Bell in L.A. Chuckie weiss and the goddamn liars..and everyone who ever came out to listen and maybe even liked it thank you its been wild and definately wonderful..Since Donnie Mullins died and chuck stayed in L.A. I..ve been back around Detroit working on new tunes, PLaying in Few spiritual groups like my band Crown of Thorns..Working toward new CD... to include some very gifted detroit musicians...doing few Acoustic shows so come out and catch new tunes..Keep Rockin and god bless...Jim/Padraig James