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By Nicky Baldrian
When I first heard Riverside
based hard rockers $kyhigh's debut album "Tales From The
Crib", I was amazed at how good the production and the songs
were. the album also got rave reviews in respected UK rock
magazine Hard Roxx as well as nice reviews praising the bands
efforts throught Europe. The bands music was was very American
and reminded me of bands like Nelson, Warrant, Firehouse,
Tyketto, Damn Yankees, Jaded Heart, Innuendo and Danger Danger
amongst others
Due to a recent debate on the internet, it was advised that I
track the band down and find out what's been happening since the
release of that album a couple of years ago. So I contacted main
man Rich and it seems like they have more fans they thought!!!
$kyhigh was founded
in 1995, "The core of the band (myself, Steve-singer, and
Frank-drummer) has never changed. I really got into music around
the time Van Halen put out 5150. I was playing drums at the time
but once I heard that CD, everything changed for me. I started
teaching myself guitar and piano and the rest is history."
explains Rich.
The band are inspired by good melodies "I'm a lead
guitarist, but I don't think you need to play a million miles an
hour in order to get your point across on guitar. Great songs are
cool too. That's what $kyhigh strives for when writing. We could
all show off our skills but what's the sense? The Beatles had a
ton of hits with simple three chord progressions and it seemed to
work for them." he adds.
The songs on
"Tales From The Crib" are now available through Perris
records, Rich continues "Well,we're very proud of the first
album. We did the entire thing ourselves. We didn't fold under
the pressure of the alternative movement. Now it seems like
rock'n'roll is making a comeback and we're ready to give it a
shot. The first CD was a great learning experience and it's cool
to know that people are still into it and still asking for
it!" he pauses for a second before continuing "The new
CD doesn't have a title yet. We are recording it ourselves with
equipment that we bought. We're doing everything except the final
mastering. It's pretty much the same style as the first CD but
with more of an updated sound...alot more melodies that will have
you humming for hours. Of course, there will be lots of
guitar...probably about 10 tracks or so. We're taking our time on
it because we own
the equipment so we want to make sure everything is right. We're
hoping for a summer release."
For the future
$kyhigh are just content to play music "If we never become
millionaires, that's fine. We dig that people like our stuff,
that's all we can ask for. If something big happens, then great.
But I've been playing for over 10 years now and I'm not gonna sit
around and pray for a major record deal. This business is all
about who you know. There are thousands of awesome bands out
there that nobody will ever hear about.
I think we've done alot in the past couple of years for a
relatively unknown band that's had no help. We've got our second
CD in the works, financed totally by us"
$kyhigh have also
had their fair share of major tours "we've played with bands
like Cinderella, Sebastian Bach, Slaughter, Warrant, Living
Colour and Enuff Z'nuff. We have another show with Warrant on
April 27,2000 at the Station http://www.thestationrocks.com) in
West Warwick RI. Things are good...but that doesn't mean we're
just sitting around doing nothing. We're constantly trying to
contact record labels, radio...anybody that might be able to get
our music to the masses." he pauses again "Actually,
the shows we've done over the last year have been pretty cool.
All the bands have been nice. I can't say enough good things
about Warrant, they've treated us really good the two or three
times we've done shows with them.
I just want to
thank all our fans out there...to see people singing our songs is
the greatest feeling in the world. Visit our site at: http://www.oocities.org/skyhighrox , we're starting to re-do it. We won't
let you down...the new CD ROCKS!"
$kyhigh as mentioned will release their second untitled album in
the Summertime. Watch this space as this band rock and defintley
show all the ingredients for a successful future. We wish the
band thew best of luck.