Artist description Please visit our web site for more information: http://www.turnrock.com. We like to jam to come up with stuff and make the pieces into songs.

Music Style Rock

Musical Influences Rock and Metal

Similar Artists You tell me who we sound like.

Artist History The current members, Ray, Roy, and Lyndon started playing together in 1995 in another band. With the singer away from that band, Turn has blossomed. See web page for details!

Group Members Raymond Lugo (guitar), Roy Kurano (bass/vocals), Lyndon Scott (drums), Bio's in French, German, Italian, English at http://www.turnrock.com.

Instruments guitars, bass, drums

Albums Slaughterhouse, Money, Pedal to the Metal, Live at the Monterey Rock & Festival 1999 (Video/CD), Live at Warfside, Smash Hit Record, Instrumentals, Acoustic Breakfast, Eye Disease

Press Reviews We didn't win the contest according to what I heard over the P.A. Friday night, but it's good that it says so in our first review. I thought we played our asses off and so did the Chop Tops. Roy and I heard over the P.A. that Redhanded won, so we told them congratulations and then talked to the guys in the Chop Tops. The singer/drummer said he would try to hook us up with some shows in Santa Cruz and the guitarist gave me his card. They were way cool and did a great rockabilly version of AC/DC's "Rocker." ¶ Roy does scream, I hope I provide a layer of heavy riffs, and Lyndon does hammer, but it was not a hack-night for us. We kicked ass and the reviewer I think didn't like it. Yeah, we might have turned some people away--we turned up the volume and (except for one song) were out to crush. Not everybody likes their music crushing. We don't play happy soft music--we play rock and roll. So I hope you find this article amusing--I laughed when I read it: ¶ Black and Blue Blitzkrieg bounces off the ceiling and delivers a bruising musical experience. ¶ By Aaron S. Birk ¶ Walking into KMBY's new Black & Blue Blitzkrieg Band Competition is an adventure. You throw the doorman a few bucks and set yourself up in front of Blue Fin's stage, waiting to be either aurally stimulated--or tortured--by some local unsigned bands. Either way, the audience gets the last word--winners of each round are selected by audience vote. Last weekend's opening-round competition was a case in point. A crowd filtered off the escalators on Friday to find the first group, Turn, hacking through a kind of abrasive, hard-rock which sent many people out the back early. Even so, Roy Kurano, the singer and bass player for the group, caught the spirit of the whole affair, screaming into a microphone under a layer of heavy riffs provided by guitarist Raymond Lugo. The drummer, Lyndon Scott, rode chaotically over the sound like a hammer. The square high ceiling of Blue Fin's stage provides what musicians call a "bass trap": It traps low tones in a swirl of bouncing sound waves which pound downward out of sync with everything else around it--the whole thing makes a show more fun, not to mention challenging. ¶ Watching bands perform in this weird situation is like watching wrestling or caged death-matches from Indonesia. It presents a "fly or die" challenge for the performers, forcing them to squint past the bad dynamics of the room and push their talent to an extreme. ¶ As the evening wore on, groups of people eventually found themselves overtaken by another group, The Chop Tops, a rockabilly group out of the Santa Cruz area, who have performed around here for a while. Guitar player Shelby pulled out everything from jumping on the drums to crazy splits between notes. Gary Marsh did his stand-up drumming thing while he sang, and by god, the room danced along to a vintage tone which sent the heart into nostalgia. ¶ Then in the midst of it all, Red-Handed stepped up and attempted to claim the stage with some distorted mayhem of their own. In the end, it wasn't a question of who had won or even who was the best band--it was about who survived the battery of sound that evening. ¶ In the end, Turn was the winner. The Chop Tops may have rocked the place but apparently the crowd last Friday wasn't looking for old kick-ass rock, it had to be new kick-ass rock. ¶ This Friday, three more groups will drag themselves on stage for the amusement of the crowd. The first of those bands will be Righteous Anger. Josh Barica, singer and guitar player for the band, has "Original Modern Rock" etched across the center of his band's business card. This young group has risen into the scene over the past year, offering audiences alternative rock as it once was--with an eye as to where it may be going. The work by Righteous Anger is passionate and filled with old fashioned angst--maybe it'll be enough for a win. ¶ Then again, one-man band Tony Miles could take it that night, too. With his MIDI rack and guitar he will take the stage alone, to compete with his sequenced music. Performer Jim Morrison once said, "I think the future of music is some guy up on stage there with a bunch of tapes, man." Tony Miles is on the fast track toward that future. ¶ G-7, a somewhat unknown group of cats, will perform as well. This is an opportunity to check out one of the area's lesser known bands--and they may need your vote to win. ¶ Saturday will find WYRM and H.B.A duking it out under the bass-trap, two groups about which folks should make their own judgments. "I think it is a good thing for us...and a good thing for the scene," Blue Fin manager Mike Livingston said while sitting out on the balcony trying to offer his insight about this whole depraved affair. This competition at Blue Fin comes on the heels of a similar affair in Santa Cruz, which was also sponsored by KMBY. So, not only does the competition give local bands more exposure to the hometown crowd, it's also something of a bridge between the musical communities at both ends of the Monterey Bay.

Additional Info For Turn merchandise go to http://www.cafepress.com/turn

Location Pacific Grove, CA - USA

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