121st Series Event: Johnny Rockets MultiFest!7-15

The 121st MultiFestival Showcase Series event offers 3 distinctly different and ultimately talented Columbus bands in The Johnny Rockets -classic rock with new urgency- (the namesake of this event), The Vague -the fabulous, furious Foo Fighting, original power-pop and progressive rock perveyors- and Twiggy & Frollywog -indie-prog, rock with smarts AND balls!-, all bent on bringing it on for MultiFestival! Johnny Rockets MultiFest takes place at Tommy Keegan's (456 S. Front St., Brewery District, Columbus, 614-221-9444) on Saturday, July 15th at 10:00pm. A mere $5 cover charge gets you in to rock out for the night. Check out the band descriptions, websites, MP3s, parking information and more below. See you at the show!



The Johnny Rockets are Myke Rock (bass and vocals), Erik Diaz (drums and vocals, long-time touring drummer for Jorma Kaukonen's and Jack Casady's HOT TUNA, www.hottuna.com), John Widner (guitar and vocals, ex-Toast, The Bellows) and band leader Patrick Thomas (guitar, keys, lead vocals, ex-Patrick Thomas Band, Pat Bolich)! A drummer for this event has been contracted, as regular drummer Erik Diaz is on the road with Hot Tuna and will return to The Johnny Rockets in August. The Johnny Rockets are a band invented for your rock-n-roll and dancing pleasure and employs vocal harmonies with pains-takingly detailed renditions of such artists as Aerosmith, Bad Company, The Beatles, Chili Peppers, Cracker, Cream, Pink Floyd, Santana, Sublime, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Led Zeppilin, and way too many more to list!





VISIT MYKE ROCK AT MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/mykerockmusic

Pictured Below, drummer Erik Diaz (2nd from left) with his other band, Hot Tuna, who is currently touring with them and will return to The Johnny Rockets in August

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The Vague has shown itself to be an accomplished live act. They have performed with a number of national acts including Ace Frehley, Enuff Z' Enuff and Everything. They were invited to play the Columbus Arts Festival as well as the Regional Music Showcase in St. Louis. In the latter they performed an impressive set alongside such bands as Local H, Our Lady Peace and The Sun Sawed in 1/2. In addition, they have played the International Pop Overthrow Festival in Los Angeles, along with such artists as John Faye and The Tories. Not only has The Vague proven itself on the stage, the band's studio works have earned them slots on a number of national and international releases. From their first demo, whose single "Mr. Two Face", was released on the now defunct UMS Records, the band started gaining attention in the power pop community. In 1998, The Vague submitted the single "94" which earned them the distinction as one of the top twelve Musician Magazine's "Best Unsigned Bands of 1998", a contest sponsored by Atlantic Records. They have contributed a song to an upcoming Nick Gilder tribute album on Gremlin Records. They have also recorded the song “ Blockbuster” for a 2002 Bullseye Records release entitled "Are You Ready,Steve?:A Tribute to Sweet".
The band recorded their first full length release,"Divorcing the Shame", with Tom Boyer (Howlin' Maggie, Scrawl, Watershed and The Fabulous Johnson Brothers) in 2002 to much critical praise, both locally and nationally.

Check out reviews, free mp3s and more at www.myspace.com/thevagueonline and www.thevague.com!





www.myspace.com/twiggyandfrollywog
www.twiggyandfrollwog.com

Sita Asar
vocals, guitar

Sita has been a genius and a rockstar from day one. At five, she was improvising songs on the swingset before learning her times tables. At 13, she was singing opera, playing piano, and studying atomic orbitals. In high school, her nose was either in her calculus book or hanging over her guitar, and now, she enters the Columbus rock scene with heavy influences in Punk, Rock, and Classical Indian, and a degree in Physics. Check out her super-distorted power chords, melodic microtones, and anti-establishment lyrics!

Adam Story
bass, keyboard, guitar

To say musician Adam Story "enjoys" making music is an understatement. This boy was born with pure Rock and Roll flowing through his veins. He breathes in chords, walks in diatonic, and eats distortion for breakfast. Thanks to a starving artist father and a prog-rock/soul obsessed mother, Adam learned the importance of the creative human spirit and the desire to express through making music. Adam, like the other members of Twiggy and Frollywog, is a self-taught musician (but of course!). Having gone through twenty-odd something bands and currently being a member of the two-man metal machine group Your Vapid Television (YVTV), Adam decided to 'spread his wings' and join Twiggy and Frollywog in the summer of 2003. Impressed with the musicianship and committment of Bill, Jason, and Sita, Adam is convinced that Twiggy and Frollywog has great things in its future!

Jason Corner
drums

Jason is Twiggy and Frollywog's drummer. He can drum practically any style of music that has drums, which greatly accomodates Twiggy's eclectic style. He is currently pursuing a PhD in English, and has made excellent contributions to the band through his own songs as well, but has not yet written his own bio, ironically enough.

Bill Spiropoulos
lead guitar, bass

Bill has been a boy obsessed by music literally as long as he can remember. He grew up in a household saturated with records, absorbing absolutely everything from psychedelic and hard rock to bluegrass to jazz and movie soundtracks from an early age (he remains a vinyl junkie and a connoisseur of old music), and his dad and both brothers had played instruments at one time or another. All the pieces were there in waiting for this impressionable youngster by the time he perceived a physical resemblance between his 5 year old self and the very young Beatles (on the cover of the 1962-1966 double LP), and being told by his grinning brother that they were in fact "kids" when they recorded the early hits contained therein, Bill decided then and there that he was going to be a rock musician too. Although he didn't meet his self-imposed deadline of 17 years of age to become a star, his obsession with music and records pushed him all the way through the next twenty-odd years, during which he taught himself guitar and keyboards, experimented incessantly with tape recorders and microphones, and through his love of album cover art and graphics in general, turned on to a career in graphic design by which he makes his "real" living these days. Bill didn't join his first band until 2001, playing bass for a year and a half with local jam band Brokedown Sound (which evolved into current scenesters Sens). In between that adventure and his fateful lunchtime meeting with Jodi at a downtoiwn restaurant in October 2003, he'd also joined up with the neo-psychedelic combo Floorian where he plays keyboards and guitar in a competely different context. The boy's finally doing what he's always wanted to, and doing it a lot. His house, as a result, is a mess.



A NOTE FROM TOMMY KEEGAN'S:

Tommy Keegan's is located at 456 South Front Street in the heart of one of Columbus' premier areas, the Brewery District. Keegan's opened for business in 1994 and has become a well-known establishment throughout the City. Tommy Keegan's offers live music on Fridays and Saturdays with happy hour Monday through Friday from 4:00 to 8:00. We are currently closed on Sundays.

Our philosophy is simple - to provide our patrons a comfortable, friendly atmosphere to enjoy good music and good company so come join us!!

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Parking

Parking meters available free after 6pm. They are located on Front St., W. Livingston Ave and High St.
There is also a 1$ parking garage connected to 500 s. Front St building.
To access the garage, head south on High St. and make a Right turn onto Blenkner. The garage is on the RIGHT hand side. By using the exit door located in the back of the garage, you’ll be steps away from the ally connected to Tommy Keegans!