michael kenney - ProfilesArchive

About Me

hello. i'm michael kenney. i've been part of iron maiden's infamous killer krew for most of the last 27 years. i'm generally known as steve harris' bass tech and the live keyboard player. in the studio i look after most things, but drums...general dogsbody...(at least i'm an officer!;-)
when i'm in LA, i can often be found playing guitar with happenin' harry & the haptones all-star band.
a lot of what i might write here can already be found at roadcrewlive/michael kenney
all comers are welcome here. send me a request, i'll add you. :-) (having said that, i have received some requests that i am just not interested in accepting. so there is some selection involved, but not much. and, please- i don't do satanic...)
see the blog 'ok...i did it...' above for the story on my two tunes that are up here. I'm playing (and singing) everything. (albeit, a long time ago...)
please note, in my influences list to the left, there is very little that one might consider metal these days; by current standards, i am not a 'metal-head'. if you have cookie monster vocals you are probably not going to be my favorite band. i like real singers. with soul.
AND PLEASE!!: MY COMMENTS PAGE IS NOT A BILLBOARD FOR YOUR ADVERTISING. IF YOU WANT TO PUSH YOUR STUFF, DO IT ON YOUR PAGE. thank you.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/12/2006
Band Members: michael kenney- utility man: bass/guitar/keys/voice/drums/tech/gear/
what have you...
Influences: as on my personal page, i'll let my ipod contents answer this:
a perfect circle, abc, ainjel emme, alanis, altered state, the animals, beach boys (holland!), betty davis, bjork, booker t and the mg's, byrds, cameo, colt/lwed, chris cornell, cream, dalbello(!), david crosby (music is love :-), david sancious, double trouble, dream theater, elvin bishop group, elp, enuff z'nuff, follow for now, foo fighters, frankie miller, free, galactic cowboys, glenn hughes(!), helloween (better than raw), the hollies, honeymoon suite, incubus, irakere, iron maiden (my work), ivan neville, jack bruce, james brown, jan hammer, jeff beck(!), jeff buckley, hendrix, john mayall's bluesbreakers (clapton!), john west, joni mitchell(!), jonny lang, journey, kate bush(!), king crimson, king's x(!!), kinks, lacuna coil, larry graham/sly & the family stone, led zep, level 42, linn county, little feat, little richard, the loading zone (bet you've never heard of them, lol), the mahavishnu orchestra, the mars volta, ministry, moby grape, montgomery gentry, moke, mumbo gumbo, muse, narada michael walden, nik kershaw(!), NIN, ohm, outkast, piRÂ² (marek raduli, wojtek pilichowski, tomek losowski), the parliafunkadelicment thang ;-), paul revere & the raiders, peter gabriel, procol harum, the rascals, rick springfield, roachford, robbie nevil, scritti politti, the sensational alex harvey band(!), shawn lane (quite possibly the best musican, ever!), skunk anansie, the small faces, smithereens, sons of champlin(!), the spencer davis group (winwood!), stanley clarke, stone temple pilots, taj mahal, terry reid, thomas dolby, todd rundgren, tool, tori amos, tracy bonham, traffic, trapeze, the tubes, van halen, vanilla fudge, velvet revolver, the yardbirds, zz top...
Sounds Like: some faves are (as i think of them ;-): jeff beck, steve winwood, billy gibbons, old clapton (i mean old...bluesbreakers, early cream), robin trower in procol harum, jack bruce, mark stein in vanilla fudge, bob mosley from moby grape, stephen miller in linn county and elvin bishop, lee michaels, jimmy smith, narada michael walden, jack casady, larry graham, greg lake (tone!), nik kershaw, lisa dalbello, GLENN HUGHES, KING'S X, obviously, some maiden in there...that's a start. i'll think of more.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

apps

sorry, i am not in the least interested in playing games on here, or much of anything else, app-wise. please don't be offended if i ignore your app invitation...
Posted by michael kenney on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:40:00 PST

palmguitars

i just got my new palmguitars today!i'm kind of the west coast/road field rep...check them out! palmguitar...
Posted by michael kenney on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:05:00 PST

more friend requests...

it looks like myspace has deleted some requests that i didn't get to yet. if you were one of them, please send it again. i'm sorry i'm so slow to get to them, but it takes awhile to check out your pag...
Posted by michael kenney on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:52:00 PST

friend requests

i get a fair few friend requests- i’m sure not as many as some hot ladies or a big band, but enough that it’s difficult for me to keep up with. to make things more difficult for myself, i ...
Posted by michael kenney on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:09:00 PST

hi, honey...i'm home!

hello, all. :-)i'm home, after being away 6 months- but even then, i was only home 5 weeks...where have i been? let's see...in march it was england/dubai/greece/serbia/india...this last time it was al...
Posted by michael kenney on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:42:00 PST

rock city award

some of you may remember that i was nominated for 'best guitar' in the 2006 rock city awards for my work with happening harry and the haptones. i was amazed that i was leading through most of the voti...
Posted by michael kenney on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:05:00 PST

ok...i did it...

a long story...back in the 80's we were rehearsing for a tour in a studio in frankfurt, funnily enough called mtv. since we were taking up the live room, the guy who ran the recording studio couldn't ...
Posted by michael kenney on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:38:00 PST

around the world the world in 32 days

hello. it's been awhile... we're back in england, where we left from on 29 sept, after a whirlwind run of north america and japan: 32 days, 16 gigs + more production days, 25,000 miles or so...it's r...
Posted by michael kenney on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:32:00 PST

new maiden!

hi, everyone...the first video from the new album, plus the artwork and other goodies have been posted on ironmaiden.com.(for the record, i didn't play on it, but i was there doing my tech thing...)...
Posted by michael kenney on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:04:00 PST

one week, and counting...

to those of you who have asked, (and it's nice to be missed. :-)i'll be home next week. it's been a longer trip than expected, and turning out to be my busiest year, work-wise, in a long time...see yo...
Posted by michael kenney on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:29:00 PST