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The Doubledowns

About Me

After years of struggling through as musicians with integrity, zeke martino, rob shumacher and ward richmond came up with a get rich scheme. The plan: sell out as quick as possible and get rich quick. The Doubledowns were then born. Soon other musicians joined the cause, ace, guitar george, slum lord jim, wendell, gaah, billy kay, matt the katt, pops, and chris tracy. While being a rythm and blues group, The Doubledowns also play rockabilly, rock and roll, as well as any form of music that we are asked to play (as long as the money is right.) And with there debut album Dirty Slang and Innuendo now available on crow records, it is time to show the love...

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Music:

Member Since: 26/12/2004
Band Website: www.thedoubledowns.com
Band Members: Brian aka Zeke Martino aka J.B.:
singing, screaming and rhythm guitar

Ace:
lead guitar

Eric Neal:
bass, backup yelling

Rob the Heartthrob:
drums, backup yelling

part time members:

Guitar George
lead guitar

Slum Lord Jim
saxophone, trombone

Gaah
organ

Influences: Little richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Ramones, Lloyd Tripp, Rip Carson, Carl Perkins, The Temptations, Fabulous Harmonaires, Royal Crown Revue, Riverboat Gamblers, Reverend Horton Heat, Flametrick Subs, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Lloyd Price, The Cadillacs, Split Lip Rayfield, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Frank Sinatra
Sounds Like: A really talented group of guys who drink to much and don't rehearse enough
Record Label: Crow Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Where the hell have we been?

I know that many of you wonder (all three of our fans) where the hell have we been for the last year or so.  Eric has been playing gigs with 15 (estimated) different bands in dallasrob has been g...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:47:00 GMT

The Newest Doubledown

If anyone saw either of our shows last weekend you noticed a new face in The Doubledowns. That would be our new bass player Mr. Eric Neal. He also plays in The Escort Service, Chris Holt Band, and p...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:20:00 GMT

Losing members

The next time you see us play a show it will probobly be with some new additions and some missing faces.  Rob the Heartthrob has taken the drum seat for the riverboat gamblers and will still be a...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:04:00 GMT

kick the fire demo 2003 posted

We recorded that song at the second doubledowns show, when we were actually still called EO11. The only person still in the band other then myself is Wendell on piano. We had written that song the n...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:02:00 GMT

Album release?

Yes we the doubledowns have been in the studio since september of 2004, and i always get asked when is the record coming out. The answer is soon, hopefully we will release the album in april/may 2005...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:04:00 GMT