Artist description British rock meets good old country boys with soul

Music Style rock

Musical Influences the Who,Jethro Tull, King Crimson, the Beatles, yes, gentle giant,pink floyd, steve vai, moody blues, allman brothers, kinks, R.E.M., brand x, jazz, blues and classical and some other stuff.

Similar Artists comparisons have ranged from santana to jethro tull depending on the song.

Artist History Formed in 1996 by the very persistent NEAL HARTH who kept coming over to JOEY HOPKINS house because Joey let him.One night he came over and said, " I have brought a keyboard player and a drummer with no drums.and so it was decreed throughout the land that GREG HAYNES would be keyboard player for the then titled "BIG FUN BAND".And furthermore it was observed that through the hand of divine providence, the drummerless drummer would henceforth be known as MIKE HARTH - bass player of BBF.After this blessed event a colorful pagent of players came and went.Finally, the last personell change came in August of 1998 when we found our drummer Jeff Boseman.Or rather he found us.He's the kind of guy that makes you glad the other five drummers didn't work out.He just walked into my basement one day to fix the air-conditioning and saw the sound equipment and our just-left drummers drums.A few minutes later he was in the band.Now we are cooking and hope to have new product more representative of the band out very soon.for now we are the NEW --- IMPROVED --- INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH ------------- ----------HAYwYRE! ------------------For more on HAYwYRE HISTORY, Upcoming Live Dates, and New Projects, be sure to check out our Home Page at the ARTIST LINK WEB SITE URL.Remember to ask for HAYwYRE brand and accept no substitutes!!!also: WE WANT PAYING GIGS!CONTACT US NOW!!So it is written,so let it be done.

Group Members Joey Hopkins:guitar & vocals -------Neal Harth:guitar & vocals ----------Mike Harth:bass ----------------------- Greg Haynes:keyboards & piano - Jeff Boseman:drums

Instruments You get two guitars, a bass, a keyboard, three vocalist(with a fourth on the way) and a drummer on a drum throne.And if you act by midnight tonight, a sound mixer(Angie Miller) absolutely free!!!

Albums "Evolution of Passion" / "HAYwYRE"- (self-titled)

Press Reviews "People will be throwing their Lynrd Skynrd CD's out the window when they hear this." Ricky Drewry

Additional Info Beau Hooker (drums) and Karen Faust (vocals) appear on "Evolution of Passion"

Location Daleville, Virginia - USA

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