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super400.com
Troy, NY: Kenny Hohman picked up the guitar as a young boy after hearing Eddie Van Halen's mind-bending tracks
on the early Van Halen records. Joe Daley's two older brothers were already established musicians in their home
town, so when Joe was a teenager, he cut his teeth playing the drums with them at dingy clubs and blues joints
in and around Troy. After high school, Joe and Kenny moved to New York City, then Woodstock, in the hopes
finding the right bass player and establishing a Rock and Roll band. The pair had spent hundreds of smoky hours
hypnotized by the magic of Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Blind Faith, Led Zeppelin - the music that was made for young
souls to discover and devour.
Their travels left them unsatisfied and Hohman and Daley returned home, where on a Monday night blues jam, they
unexpectedly met bassist Lori Friday. Friday had been on a musical journey that paralleled her new friends' -
she lived on the heavy rock and soul sounds of her heroes and was searching for her musical match. The three
made a date to jam in a Troy warehouse, and after 45 minutes, Super 400 was born. They didn't need to speak
of it - they were already a band from the first note.
The three friends immediately began long jam sessions that lasted for days, searching for and cultivating a
sound and feel that would develop into a breathing entity that was entirely theirs. Super 400 takes the classic
'power trio' approach with their live show - three instruments taking up the sonic space of an airplane hangar,
rocking to the heavens - but their vocal dynamics and undeniable spiritual synergy cause the sounds to swell
to the bursting point.
The band has become one of the most loyally followed rock bands in the Northeast, and the fan base is growing;
last year's national tours started a chain of bootleg recordings that have been traded and coveted around the
world. Success at the Azkena Rock Festival in Spain spurred an international following that recently sold out
over 20 shows across Europe. Their 2007 release, 3 And The Beast, received high praise from international press
and could be found in rotation at over 250 radio stations in the US and Canada. Back home, the mayor of Troy
gave Super 400 their own official holiday, 'Super 400 Day', to recognize the band's musical achievements as
well as the love and support the city has shown for them.
deepshagband.com
Formed in Memphis, TN in 1999, Deep Shag launched their recording career with Rug Burn, a funk collaboration
featuring grandmaster George Clinton. Diving into a rigorous 250+ shows a year, and sharing the stage with such names as
Parliament Funkadelic, Everclear, and Maroon 5, they re-emerged in 2004 with Mother May I? Management greed buried
the commercial release of the album until they were signed by Response Records in 2007. Standing the test of time, Mother
May I? achieved regular rotation at over 150 radio stations nationwide. Experienced, weathered, and highly motivated,
Deep Shag recorded their Rock n Roll masterpiece in 2008, Beautiful Tyrant. Highly acclaimed in over 200 markets
worldwide within the first month of release, Beautiful Tyrant is destined to be considered one of the great Rock albums of our time.
Recorded in 2003, Future I.D. was the embodiment of Denver Hip-Hop in its’ day. A collaboration of independently successful
MC’s Ace One, Sid Fly, Dowell Jones, and D.O. Da Fabulous Drifta, Ground Zero Movement was heralded as the Denver Wu Tang
Clan. Their Response record expanded local Hip-Hop horizons, incorporating Rock and Trance tracks behind the multi-faceted lyrical
onslaught of four skilled rappers. Album also features a classic cameo from Alkaholiks legend Catastrophe. Future I.D. achieved
acclaim both the U.S. and Canada, being added to rotation in around 250 college markets, on air interviews and heavy rotation
on both XM and Sirius Radio, and by sharing the stage with such artists as Tha Alkaholiks, 8 Ball & MJG, A Tribe Called Quest,
Digital Underground, and Coolio.