Alan-keyboards and vocals • Melvin-bass • Norris-drums • Bruce-guitar • Rodney-guitar, harmonica & vocals • Steve-guitar
Photos courtesy of Fred at KJUN Productions
UPCOMING SHOWS!
• Thursday August 26 - Art+Music Show at The End - 2219 Elliston Place - 8:30PM The Pilots are opening for Hyrkamonsta featuring Peter Hyrka of Gypsy Hombres. Not sure how we got invited to play this gig, but we’re honored to be in the company of such fine musicians. • Saturday August 28 - Benefit for Sandy Towle at Bobby McKee's Irish Pub 7:30PM Featuring three bands with an "All-Star" jam at the end of the show. This will be a fun one! COMING SOON: Benefit for The Alzheimer's Association - Details TBA
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Who the heck are Stones River Pilots anyway? Just some old guys (and one young one) that like to get together and try to play a bunch of songs all the way through the best we can.
We actually have 1.5 real musicians in the band.
Steve, the lead guitarist is very good. He plays all over the US with some of the biggest names in rock and country. You can take lessons from him, too.
Rodney is the ".5" musician. He is a very good drummer and has played professionally. Unfortunately, he doesn't play drums in SRP. His father-in-law, Norris plays drums because he can't play anything else and Rodney is kind enough to step aside and let him. Rodney plays rhythm and lead guitar and also is the vocalist. By day he is a financial numbers juggler and investment advisor.
Bruce plays rhythm guitar. By day he is a suit-wearing corporate management guy, by night he's a t-shirt wearing guitar slinger.
Norris is the drummer. He's been playing drums off and on since high school (which for him was a looooong time ago). His drumming skills are off and on as well. He is an artist/illustrator during the day – and many nights, too.
Melvin is the bass player. By day he is one of Murfreesboro's finest. He also does a lot of work in the community setting up audio/PA for events around town.
Alan plays keyboards and sings. His "real job" is making beautiful hand crafted furniture. If he played keyboards and sang as well as he makes chairs, we would all be famous by now.
OK, how about the name? Well, Murfreesboro, TN (where we live) is on the Stones River, and there is another "obscure" band out there you may have heard of called The Stone Temple Pilots... So, there you go. We just thought it was kinda funny. Our buddy Antsy McClain of the Trailer Park Troubadours suggested "Shirley Temple Pilots"... (hmmm, maybe?)
For booking information: send us an email and we will see if we can all get off work at the same time to play. Or you can call us at 615-945-1873.
Fan Club As soon as we get some fans, we will have one of those.
Tee Shirt! Check out the official SRPTee! Under $20! Buy one now! Or not – we don't make any money off of them anyway... But they're pretty cool.
Stones River Pilots at Fanatics Video “Mustang Sally”