Michael CALLOWAY aka MC
Lead vocals, guitar, guitar synthesizer
MC was raised in a house filled with the only two kinds of music that existed in middle class America Country & Western! The 50’s however ushered in a new era in working class music and an occasional Elvis record snuck on the turntable and he was immediately stricken with Rock-n-Roll.
As a military brat MC formed his first band, The Vultures in Heidelberg Germany in 1964 if you can call six guitars hotwired into an amplifier, with a 10" speaker ... A Band? In 1967 his next band Carousel rehearsed for months for a single Friday night school dance followed by a live radio broadcast on an AM station in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
He soon found himself back in the Germany attending Frankfurt American High School where over the next three years he toured the American Youth Activities Clubs and an occasional "civilian" venue as a member of The Sound Pounders, Crosstown Traffic, Ground Floor People, Smack, Trilogy and George and The Rockets.
Meanwhile back in the world (that’s military jargon for the USA) while attending The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, MC played in an acoustic duo Alias Smith & Jones which grew into The Losers Band playing clubs in Knoxville and Gatlinburg. He then played with a funk band Zebra and then returned full circle to his roots playing in a country bar band (which never had a name) but what memories ! Just like the bar in the Blues Brothers Movie : "Except we didn’t have chicken wire to protect us from the flying beer bottles!" The End of Music for A Living !
Following a unique military career that included assignments working with Francis Ford Coppola, Quincy Jones, Reba McIntire, Vince Gill and numerous others, and an almost total hiatus from music, MC met PB and the rest is history or perhaps hysteria.
Philippe BOSQUET aka PB
Guitar, bass, keyboard, vocals
PB was born and raised in Normandy, in Northwestern France. He started to play piano at the age of 9. By that time, and thanks to the very good education provided by his parents, he was mostly listening to classical music. He made his first musical encounter with rock'n roll at the age of 12, when he was given the Beatles Blue Album for his birthday. He played this record over and over at least a thousand times on his white plastic turntable, and later did the same with the Red Album.
He then made a very important decision: "I'm gonna be a rock star."
At the age of 15, he bought himself his first acoustic guitar. Two years later, he noticed an ad on his high school's bulletin board: a folk Celtic music band was looking for a bass player.
He thought: "I don't know a damn thing about celtic music but I could most certainly become a famous bass player."
His savings could only afford a second hand no-name Korean made electric bass and a small amplifier but two days after, he got the job, and probably because he wore the appropriate attire: long hair and an extra large woolen sweater. He then joined another band to play some rock and blues, and even a little jazz.
Later on, he met some musicians who were looking for a keyboard player, for their rock fusion band.
"Being a renowned keyboard player could be another option, no ?"
PB had enough savings to afford purchasing a small Casio synthesizer...
Since then, PB kept on switching countries,instruments and bands. He was seen playing bass in two rock bands in Mexico, The Blues Teachers and Los Cazafantasmas del Norte, and playing keyboard in two other rock bands in the Philippines : The Hot Mojo Club Band and Juan Isip.
He then decided, just before turning 40, that he could most probably become a decent guitarist, and purchased his first electric guitar...
PB now lives in Maryland, near Washington DC, where he founded 002 with his friend MC. He is still hoping to become a rock star.
