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Who Are The Mooreheads? To order merchandise, click here to visit our store. THE MOOREHEADS have been performing in the Kansas City, MO area for the past two years. The band primarily covers classic to contemporary rock music but has performed music outside of this genre and has included originals in their sets. THE MOOREHEADS have become very popular in a very short time and attribute their success to their raw sound, performing material requested by you, energetic performances and audience participation. Check out a MOOREHEADS gig for yourself sometime to see and feel the difference! For booking info, contact the band at 816.500.6589 or email us at info@themooreheads.com.
Sound & Lighting Gear: The band performs with top of the line sound and lighting gear to give you that professional sound you expect ! Our sound and lighting engineer, Brad Moon, brings many years of studio and industry experience to ensure that the sound is acoustically fit for each room performed. Check out his website www.audiotriad.com for additional information about Brad and the services that his company offers. The Mooreheads are powered by the following: JBL M-Pro Series Mains & Subs JBL JRX Series Monitors Crest & Crown Power Amps Audix and Shure Microphones AKG & Audio Technica Wireless Systems Allen & Heath Mixing Board Furman Power Conditioners Ross Systems & DOD Equalizers TC Electronics & Alesis Effects Processors Samson Quad Gates American DJ lights And more ! Contact the band for additional information at info@themooreheads.com
Pat Matzke (Craven) - Vocals Gear Mics AKG Wireless Guitars G&L Legacy Amps Fender, Mesa Boogie, Vox Cabinets Fender Effects Boss, Marshall Bio Born: April 7 Birthplace: Rochester, MN Story: Pat was born long ago in the land just south of the Great White North. John and Rosie had 4 kids in 4 years, then the TV was invented. Eleven years later, the TV broke down and 9 months later Pat burst onto the scene, wailing at the top of his lungs, they haven't been able to shut him up since! Pat took classical piano lessons from the age of 5 until he turned 12. At the age of 10, he took up the trumpet as well. In the 7^th grade, Pat bought Black Sabbath Vol. 4 and quickly followed that with Deep Purple's "Made in Japan". Classical piano was HISTORY and the trumpet was soon traded in on a Stratocaster with a whammy bar. Pat lead sang and played rhythm guitar in several bands through junior high and high school. After a failed stint as a Space Cowboy he joined the Marines, got married, had a couple of kids and found himself stationed at the Marine Corps Finance Center in KCMO. In 1986 he was honorably discharged from the Marines and took a job in Kansas City. Slumming around the local bar scene in 1990 Pat met a couple of guys from Philly that had just escaped from some monks at a semenary (is that like a seminary?). Tony and Dan were destitute and losin' (kind of like Grand Funk) and needed some work. After talking for a while they discovered a common love of Rock'n'Roll and thought they might be able to scrape up some money for burgers if they put together a little show. This led to the formation of 'the unworthy'. They toured all the local clubs and got back on their feet. Pat married his current wife Renee' during this period, blending 'his' 2 boys (Sam, now 23 and Tony, now 21) and 'hers' 2 girls (Stephani, now 15, and Jessi, now 14) into a family of 4. Pat and Renee' are currently working on 'ours' Tyler 16 months and He Who Is Yet To Be Named, due June 21^st. After several years, all the members of 'the unworthy' found themselves married with children (yeah, like Al Bundy) and the band went on a rather permanent hiatus. In 2002 Pat and Geoff began kicking around the idea of putting something together, gave Tony a call and said, "'Hey-Would you be interested in playing drums again"? He said, "Of course, but who's gonna play bass"? Jim Richardson (Juan) - Drums Gear DW Pacific Drums Zildjian Cymbals DW Hardware Tama Pedals Promark Sticks Audix Mics Bio Born: March 17 Birthplace: Kansas City, MO Story: Jim was born about the same time that Three’s Company first aired on ABC and Star Wars first came out in theaters. Some say that Three’s Company was directly related to Jim being born two weeks early, and Star Wars (specifically “The Force”) gave him the guiding light later used to perfect his drumming. On June 14th, 1989 (the day Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped the cop), Jim picked up his first pair of drum sticks. He honed his chops mimicking such drummers as the late John Bonaham (Led Zeppelin), Lars Ulrich (Metallica), Vinnie Paul (Pantera), and Herb Alexander (Primus). As a high school lad, he became accomplished in the Liberty High School snare drum line, and was the drummer for the first jazz band ever there – translation a band geek. After high school graduation (about the same time he got to first base with a girl) Jim got a haircut and a real job, discovering that women liked rockers who also didn’t live with their parents. Jim jammed a few times with a few bands for the next ten years and even did a brief stint singing (yelling really), but mainly just ogled at women from afar and turning himself into a barstool at local breweries. He spent most of his time expanding his knowledge, academically, and beerically until crossing paths with the other Moorehead’s. After intense interrogation and rigorous, sometimes brutal auditioning, he joined the Moorehead’s in January 2007. Geoff Z. (Buckwheat) - Guitar Gear Guitars Epiphone Les Paul, Fender Strat Amps Mesa Boogie 100-watt Nomad Cabinets Ampeg Reverb Rocket 4x12 Cabinet Effects Boss Mics Shure SM57's Picks Ice Pix, Dunlop Strings GHS Boomers Power Jagermeister Bio Born: July 12 Birthplace: Alton, IL Story: Over 30 years ago, the Land of Lincoln bore a son who was raised in a quiet little town in the southwest part of the state. 'Twas a quaint little community indeed. The Mississippi river, the beautiful river bluffs and rich in pioneer history. Then, it happened. The casinos pulled in, crack came to town and the major employers shut their doors. You see, it all went to hell. Around town the locals knew him as Geoffro (those that knew him very well added 'Bodean'). He made many friends during his formative years. But as he got older, he got an itch. So, he decided scratch it. Geoffro knew his time had comers to move on. And, so he did. He migrated to Gator Country (that's Florida in laymen's terms). Florida was good to him. However, dealing with handful of 6's and 7's, the time had come to get mobile. Before leaving, he vowed to his friends that he left behind that he will return someday to hang with his buddies and jam out to Lynyrd Skynyrd in the garage, tan his 'danger area' on the beach and drink from Ponce De Leon's fountain of youth. Ending up in Arkansas, via a year stay in New Hampshire, Geoff found out that he had a cousin in rural Arkansas. He thought about proposing marriage but found out it was only a 'step' cousin. Therefore, staying true to local customs (he was not truly related to his 'cousin'), Geoff knew he could not marry her. One day on his way to deliver groceries to his cousin, he was pulled over by a local officer for speeding. An altercation ensued and before you know it he was cited for disorderly conduct. At that time he was still carrying his New Hampshire driver's license. Once the officer discovered this, the officers and local yokels called him names. Vicious names such as 'yankee', 'blacky-whitey boy' and 'son'. They ransacked his belongings and all he remembers before being knocked upside the head was them asking him ... what you 'lookin fer', boy? He woke up the next morning in pecan grove. Sitting up still dazed and confused from the blow, he noticed a stranger was sitting there next to him. The stranger says, 'you lookin fer this?' and handed him this huge green lollipop. He took a lick and said 'man, this tastes like $#%?'! The stranger told him it wasn't something you eat but it was a guitar and it's time you start playing it. He said okay and asked the stranger where he got it. The stranger replied that it was from a friend. 'Does your friend have a first name?' he asked. The stranger replied 'yes, you fool it's musician'. So, he thanked the stranger for the gift and they parted ways. The next thing you know he was packaging Skippy Peanut Butter for Best Choice Foods, was proposed to a beautiful southern belle and moved out of Arkansas (he wasn't related to his new wife so they were railroaded out of Arkansas). Geoff and his new bride high-tailed it to Kansas City where they both accepted white-collar positions at companies in the metro area. Geoff worked on his chops and before you know it landed a spot with a up and coming local band Backwash. After a year or so, he decided he wanted to do something different and took a year off. Just about a year later, he met these other fellas from some band called 'the unworthy'. They said they were looking for a guitar player. They needed somebody with a pissy attitude, who was very anal retentive and had a thirst for Jager. Little did they know that they found they guy they were 'lookin fer'. Before you know it he was in the band. They forced him to go out and get gigs because he didn't own any PA equipment. And, as they say, the rest is history... Skip Godley (Mo Betta) - Bass Gear Guitars Fender, Ibanez Amps SWR Cabinets SWR Bio Birthdate June 22 Birthplace: Kansas City, MO Story: Once upon a time in the land of Kansas City Mo. there was a beautiful young woman who met a blues harmonica player and from that union came Skip. Call it genetics, environment or chance Skip from the beginning was interested in a diversity of music spending many hours listening to the radio from the funky soul of James Brown, the the R&B smoothness of the Temptations, the California pop of Sonny and Cher the surf rock of the Beach Boys, the grittiness of the Stones to the genius of the Beatles. When Skip reached the tender age of 13, puberty, Woodstock and bass playing kicked in...at this point Skip looking for answers was approached by a monk that told him to seek out THE CHURCH OF THE GRAND FUNK...it was here that Skip was taught that the bass was the true instrument of THE GODS and was the connection between earth ( the material world) and the spiritual plane, and he learned from the teachings of Sly and the Family Stone, Hendrix, YES, Parliment-Funkedelic, Black Sabbath and Arkansas, and of course Grand Funk Railroad. Some believe that because of these teachings Skip was given the secrets of the ALMIGHTY GROOVE…because of this many whispered that he was a demi-god or at least the best bass player in his apartment complex. In his twenties Skip after drinking a bottle of Ripple and eating raisin cookies during a rock-funk concert featuring Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, and Cheech and Chong was given a vision to go west and with THE BLACK BEAUTY (a 1974 Ibanez Fender Jazz Bass copy). Two suitcases and one flight later Skip made a home for 22 some odd years in the San Francisco Bay Area, there he worked at the legendary Tower Records and meet the likes of Prince, Stevie Wonder, Santana, Journey and laid the low decibel levels down in bands that played both the east and west coasts, opening up for such acts as War, getting media hype and word of mouth that lead to finding his 1968 Fender Jazz Bass BASSZILLA and catching the attention of Randy Jackson of "American Idol" fame...but alas the BIG TIME was not to be in this chapter...and with 9/11 Skip decided to move back to his humble beginnings and renew his connection to his FAMILY and playing in his home church in KC and finding his way to the MOOREHEADS...now…THE SAGA CONTINUES!!!
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