Steve Prisby
keyboard/harmonica
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Modeling his piano style after legends Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, and Professor Longhair, and his harp playing after the great Little Walter, Steve formed and ran The Movers for 13 years. Before Kid Pinky, he also spent six years with Rhumboogie, a highly successful four piece band from Concord, NH. Steve relishes the opportunity to not only serve as personable front man for KP, but to use the band to bring to life his numerous original songs as well.
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Wando Mannell
bass
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Growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, Wando played all kinds of roots music, from jug band to Motown. When The Crests came up north, he was the house bass player, giving him real-life experience with 50s rock n roll. Though he has numerous influences on bass, he cites James Jamerson and Rocco Prestia as most influential. He is also in demand as a bluegrass mandolin player, and can be heard playing with the Waterfront String Band. But his very first musical hero as a child? Louis Armstrong, and the N’Awlins stink is still all over every note he plays.
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Tom Wright
guitar
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A vintage guitar freak, Tom idolizes the masters from T-Bone Walker to Mike Bloomfield to Roy Buchanan. He worked in the Johnny C. Band, and was also a mainstay for years in 2120 Michigan Ave and Otis and the Elevators. In addition, he is an accomplished pedal steel player who is a familiar face on the country scene. Though you won’t get him to say it, he and John Hoik played in a band called The Avanties in the 1960s that played at a hopping venue in Sunapee, NH called The Barn. Occasionally seen in the audiences watching those Avanties shows? Steve Tyler and Joe Perry.
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John Hoik
drums
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John has worked with almost everyone who has had anything to do with blues in New England. Having started in The Avanties with Tom Wright in 1963, he also worked with Tom in The Johnny C. Band in the 1980s. In addition to holding it down for KP, he is still a mainstay with The Skip Philbrick Band. Modelling his style after Sam Lay and Freddie Below, his minimalist, freight-train style drives anything he’s involved with.
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