Artist description Currently "Darrell D" plays with The Garage Band, a popular cover band based in Dayton, Kentucky. Darrell has been playing music since the early 60s and has enjoyed a successful solo career.

Music Style Folk/Rock

Musical Influences Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Native American music, Spanish/Flamenco guitar, The Eagles, etc.

Similar Artists Neil Young! Very similar to Neil Young, with Pink Floyd influences.

Artist History In 1963 Darrell bought his first set of drums from money he made on a farm. After 6-months of practicing someone in a band drove passed his farm and heard him playing. They asked him to join and at the age of 13 he was already playing in bars while GoGo dancers danced around his drums. Darrell liked the drums because he could hide from the crowd behind them. Years later, after a performance one night, a popular band called "White Wolf" asked Darrell to jam with their band. The band clicked and Darrell would end up drumming for them for about two years."White Wolf" would become big, and was even offered a deal to go down to Nashville and cut an album. Darrell was married so they declined. Instead they toured all over Ohio and Kentucky in which they once played in front of a crowd of "a few thousand." The constant touring and being away from home was taking a toll on Darrell's marriage. There were also scuffles in the band and "White Wolf" eventually broke up. Divorced, Darrell moved to Florida in 1974 and didn't seriously play again until he returned home in 1977. That's when he decided to jam with his good friend, and brother-in-law, Gary Legeré. Since Gary also played drums Darrell took the opportunity to learn the guitar, something he always wanted to do. They practiced for a while in a spare room in Gary's house until Gary's wife Lana kicked them out. Luckily, there was a small one-car garage behind Gary's house. They both decided to move their equipment there after discovering it had electricity, and a concrete floor under the dirt floor. After a lot of fixing up and loads and loads of soundproof insulation (the walls were nine walls thick) people started hanging around Gary's garage at all hours of the day to watch him and Darrell play (occasionally other musicians would jam along). "We only knew a couple songs at the time, so we'd do two hour versions of each song," laughs Darrell today. "It didn't matter what time of day, or what day of the week you went into The Garage, there were always people partying. Anyone who partied in the 70s from around [Northern Kentucky] knows about 'the Garage'," says Darrell. "We never got into any trouble because the cops were too afraid to come up there." Then, around 1979, Darrell would help found and name the band "Hurricane"--named after the Neil Young classic "Like a Hurricane." In it he played guitar and Gary drummed. Someone joined the band, that Darrell didn't like, so he quit and joined "Ambush" along with his friend Tony Fredrick. Gary told Darrell that he knew that'd play again someday but didn't know when. Again he ended up performing every weekend and they'd practice all through the week. "It was becoming a second job," says Darrell, "it wasn't fun anymore." Both Darrell and Gary quit their respective bands and decided to jam together again, only this time with no commitments to perform as a band. On one occasion someone asked them what their band's name was. They never thought about it and someone came up with the idea to call them "The Garage Band" after The Garage. Sadly Gary's house burned down sometime in the 80s, and The Garage was torn down and apartments were built in its place. Gary and Darrell moved the band across the street and this album was recorded on a 4-track circa 1989. Essentially it's a solo album but it features many of the musicians who played with. All songs were first takes and were never redone. Today "The Garage Band" still plays out, when they want to and with no commitments of course. The recordings that are placed on this site are of a bad dump. The 4-track it was made on was destroyed long ago so no new dumps could be made. "I gave away all my good tapes," admits Darrell. The 12-year-old tape was then put into a stereo that was hooked up to the line in of a computer. The computer used MusicMatch to change the recordings into mp3s. We are awaiting a better copy of the album before selling D.A.M. CDs.

Group Members Darrell Holton- Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Harmonica, Keyboards... Also featuring: Gary Legeré- Drums; Tony Fredrick- Guitar, Keyboards; Craig Cornet- Guitar; Rus Perkins- Bass; LeRoy Laycock- Bass

Instruments Gibson J-45 Deluxe, Gibson Bluesbird w/ Bigsby style whammy, '63 Reissue Fender Stratocastor with Virtual Vintage Pickups

Albums The Last Days

Location Bellevue, Kentucky - USA

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