MOJO RIB

“Once you’ve gotten a taste of playing rock ‘n roll in front of a live audience, you’re hooked for life,” says Mojo Rib lead singer Jay Sosnicki. “You’ll do whatever you have to do to get back to that place.”
Featuring Sosnicki, guitarists Joe Favazza and Stephen Fahlsing, bassist Curt Remington, and drummer Don McCurdy, Mojo Rib is celebrating its 10th year as Los Angeles’ prime purveyors of bluesy, boozy, hip-swiveling hard rock.
“We take a real blue-collar approach to what we do. We’re of the Ramones, AC/DC, Motorhead school -- get on stage, get the job done, and bring it every time. The audience deserves nothing less.”
2009 also finds the Los Angeles-based quintet supporting its latest CD, In For Sin, available on iTUNES, Amazon, CDBaby, and the digital music outlet of your choice. For the uninitiated, the YouTube video for “Lucky In The Order” crunches the Mojo Rib ethos into two-and-a-half minutes of pure rock dynamite: a classic riff, a driving backbeat and killer chorus, and always, the relentless energy of the band and its seemingly-possessed frontman.
What continues to drive the band in a less-than-rock-friendly musical climate? “Inspiration is a really big part of the equation,” says Sosnicki. “The bands that always blew my mind, like Van Halen, Guns ‘n Roses and Jane’s Addiction were more than just their music, they were rock ‘n roll as a lifestyle, as something to believe in. I like to think we’re carrying that torch for the next generation of hard rock riff-raff.”
Perhaps this is the secret of Mojo Rib’s cross-generational appeal. “We get ‘em all,” says guitarist Favazza, “The people who saw Van Halen in ’84, and the kids who love Turbonegro. Different year. Same audience.”
“A good time never goes out of style,” laughs Sosnicki, “And that’s what rock ‘n roll has always meant to me. When Ozzy sings rock ‘n roll is my religion and my law, I totally get that. Rock ‘n Roll gave me my direction in life. Rock ‘n Roll still matters.”
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