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Written by Morgan Kriz
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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 The Blues Monsters have been taking center stage for more than 15 years and four out of five members have been together since the beginning.
A red-hot rockin’ blues band from the North Lake Tahoe and Reno area, The Blues Monsters have been voted the #1 blues band in North Lake Tahoe for 7 years running.
“We like to bill ourselves as a blues rock band,” Blues Monster’s lead vocals and rhythm guitar player Chuck Dunn said. “Bands come and go here in Tahoe, but we still are together. We all have other jobs so the band isn’t our main gig, but we all agree that we love performing together.”
The band still practices together once a week and it is still as exciting as ever to play with one another, Dunn said.
“We really enjoy playing locally and we love doing what we do. Each member brings a different ingredient to make up what we are.”
As an example of such diversity, though primarily a blues rock band, the funk instrumental selection off the CD “Red Hot Hat” entitled “Blue Monster” written by band member Barry Slayton, was used on the benefit CD “Tahoe Jazz 2000” featuring a host of artists such as the Yellow Jackets, Michael Franks, Marilyn Scott and others. The CD is available a tahoejazz.org.
Members of the band have shared the stage with a Monster cast of musicians. Journey’s Neal Schon, the Drifters, David Coverdale of Whitesnake, Jimmy Page, Creedence Clearwater's Doug Clifford and Stu Cook, Stephen Stills, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Bo Diddley, Grateful Dead’s Bob Wier, Booker T and the MGs and The Commitments.
It’s amazing to find such a powerfully unique combination of R&B, funk, jazz and Chicago-style blues high in the mountains. Polished, tight, yet bursting at the seams, their originals are fresh and new, even though it's still the blues. Their covers are framed in signature arrangements that demonstrate the depth of the band’s talent. Whether paying respects to the masters of traditional blues, or rockin’ out other tunes The Blues Monsters get the whole house up and dancing. They're a red hot time — a great reason to choose blues.
The Blues Monsters will be performing on Saturday, April 12 at the Tahoe Biltmore, in Crystal Bay, NV. Show starts at 9 p.m. (Doors open at 8 p.m.) The show was for 21 & older. For more information contact the Tahoe Biltmore at (800) 245-8667 or (775) 831-0660 or visit www.renegadeshows.com.
Check out The Blues Monsters on iTunes, cdbaby.com/bluesmonsters and on their Web site www.thebluesmonsters.com
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