Brian
Voodoo Chile was the song that 'did it'. Brian has played in several bands over the years, trodden the boards at American air bases, civic theatres, rock/blues festivals and opened for major bands like Marillion. Currently using Bugera amps, with a couple of backups. Guitars are Music Man Axis, a couple of PRS models, two Godin TCs that are years old and beat to hell. On the floor is a custom pedal board featuring wah, distortion, compression, delay, chorus, tremolo and volume pedals. Favourite players - Hendrix, BB King, Albert King, Paul Kossoff, SRV, EVH, Richie Kotzen, Robben Ford, Andy Timmons, Vai, Satriani, Buddy Whittington, Thomas Blug.
Dave B
Dave, along with Andy, Brian and Dave R, was part of the original KMJ line up from 2005. Has also played with Dave R and Brian in bands on the Bedford music scene many years ago as a long haired adolescent, but sadly for Dave the hair as all but disappeared. Instruments of choice are Ibanez and Schecter guitars played through Peavy Valve King and Peavy Classic combos with a Floorpod and Blackstar effects. He is also the delegated keyboard player in the band, but stictly only when necessary. Biggest influence as far as guitar players go is Tommy Bolin who sadly died young, leaving behind a sketchy, small body of work. For Dave, Tommy's playing on Savannah Woman (mistakes included), from the Teaser album sums up everything that is great about the guitar
Andy
Andy took to the bass guitar 15 years ago and has played in various rock and blues bands in and around Northants and Bucks over this time, including a stint at the Blues Bar in London. His favoured bass guitars are Fender; the Hotrod Precision for real low end and the Jazz for that driving punchy sound. Andy plays through Hartke and Mark bass amps - depending on the sound and feel required and doesn't use effects. Musical influences range from Jeff Beck through Joe Walsh to Todd Rundgren, and even more recently The Gaslight Anthem. There are many more of course, some quite diverse, but for Andy they all have one thing in common - delivering powerful, driven music with feeling
Dave R
Self taught from the age of twelve and inspired to play by the likes of Keith Moon (especially), John Bonham, Carl Palmer and Nick Mason. Equipment includes Mapex Pro-M drums and a couple of Black Panther snare drums. Cymbals are mostly Paiste lovely old 'sixties' Super Zyn 18" crash. Sticks !!?? he breaks them all - quality wood, carbon fibre and aluminium. Perhaps sometimes a tad heavy handed, he's also been known to break cowbells, snare stands and even blow out a snare's bottom skin. But as Dave Grohl says, 'what's the point of playing drums if you can't hit 'em hard'. Dave has played music ranging from Jazz Funk to Heavy Rock and first played in a band with Dave B in the late seventies. He also has a decent collection of guitars and likes to listen to an eclectix mix of music ranging from Led Zeppelin to Moby, Elbow to Kate Rusby, Porcupine Tree to Sinatra, Buddy Rich and Radiohead