Crack City Rockers

Okay folks, here’s the deal:



After eight years, three CD releases, four lead guitar players, around 100+ performances and untold bottles of bottom-shelf bourbon, the Crack City Rockers formally announce their amiable breakup, effective immediately. The celebratory final gig will be Friday, July 6 at the White Eagle Saloon, with guests Honus Huffhines and The Strange Effects. The band is survived by their latest release, The Good Life, and literally dozens of disappointed fans.



Every worthwhile endeavor eventually reaches a point of diminishing returns, and instead of letting the band degenerate into some kind of sad love affair we lack the courage to end, it seemed both simpler and more honest to just set a definitive “sell-by” date, shake hands like weary travelers at the end of the journey, and call it a day while the group still fires on all collective cylinders. Plus, by splitting up, the band enters our long-planned final phase by becoming yet another influential cult act that toiled in relative obscurity before leaving a legacy of work that grew in legend and impact long after the bones were picked clean. It’s nice work if you can get it.



And really, even if the band achieves this epic status only in the minds of the members and a few other hangers-on, that’ll be payment plenty. We knew we were good at what we did- convincing others that we were became less and less important and more and more boring, and now none of that matters at all.



So, were our weeks better than your years? Was our shit harder, shiner and more downright crystalline than your diamonds? It’s hard to say…but here’s the important part: we always swung for the fence.



If on occasion we were just a sweaty, ridiculous mess, every once in a while we were also the best band going, bar none. Sometimes we flat-out sucked, but we were never, ever boring.



Regrets? Well, we never did score that endorsement deal from the Old Crow people. But in the larger scheme, we’ve checked off all the boxes on our dance card and did everything we set out to do.



All our love, Crack City Rockers



(active service) Ken Coleman- guitar, vocals/ Eric S. Gregory- lead vocals, guitar/ Curt Schulz, drums, percussion/Matt Sherman- bass.



(retired from duty) Sean Flora- bass and vocals, Dennis Mitchell- lead guitar, Steve McAvoy- lead guitar and vocals, Kurtiss Lofstrom- lead guitar and bass.