Artist description Hard rockin and deeply groovin, Johnny Young is raging across the US supporting their second cd, “Drone” This three piece dynamo is garnering radio support, new venues and fans on a weekly basis.

Music Style Alternative Hard Rock

Musical Influences Soundgarden, Doors, Yes, Nirvana, Miles Davis, John Lennon, everything I ever heard or will hear plus stuff I make up....

Similar Artists Soundgarden,Monster Magnet,STP,Drain,Alice In Chains,Nirvana, early, heavy Pumkins

Artist History Currently Johnny Young is playing clubs and colleges doing both electric and acoustic shows to support their debut cd, “Drone”

Group Members Johnny Young - Vocals and Guitar Christo Strone - Bass Lex Dunbar - Drums

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocal

Albums Shed Your Skin 1998, Drone 2000

Press Reviews JERSEY BEAT #63 JANUARY 1999JOHNNY YOUNG - Shed Your Skin (Menagerie Records, 440 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215)This potently primordial 12 track debut CD offers a blisteringly effective post-modem hard rock combination of 80's heavy metal's mighty caveman stomp and 90's alternative rock's carefully wrought melodic accessibility. Lead singer Johnny Young's gritty, raspy, soaring voice savagely tears its way through each hard-hitting song. The crunchy, power chord-ridden guitars, putty, bottom-heavy drums which never let up on the chunky, surging beats, and a thickly plodding bass create a powerful, pulverizing sonic thrust which thankfully eschews all-out abrasiveness in favor of a much more tautly harmonic and controlled approach to banging out a tune that gains considerable strength from its tightly focused intensity. The band's harshly down-to-earth, confrontational, unsentimental sensibility caps things off perfectly. A righteously dead-on serving of no-bullshit, straight-with-no-chaser rock'n'roll fury. - Joe Wawyezniak Johnny Young: SHED YOUR SKIN - Little trio on this CD in from Brooklyn. This is a KEWL rawkin' thang. Young has been blind since age 17, but he hasn't let that get in his way at all! This music is FULL of punch & energy, & a sensitivity not often heard these days! Young's lead guitar/vox are thoroughly complimented by th' power-driven bass by Christopher Strone & th' butt-kickin' drums of Emilio Vicini. If th' word "alternative" (when used to describe rock music that's supposed to be "different") has sorta' turned you off - think AGAIN! This is th' REAL thing! Second cut in, "One Call", is a fave, but none o' th' rest are slackerz', either! Strong lyrical bent, with real style, not jus' another punker with a case o' wannabe! Wanna' get yer' blood SURGING? GET THIS - it's MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED & gets th' PICK of this issue for "best rawker"! If yer' don't get another R&R album this year - you jus' GOTTA' have this one! Independence with GUTZ'! Contact at 440 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215, or via e-mail to johnelle@erols.com Rotcod Zzaj -- Dick Metcalf, aka Rotcod Zzaj -- Improvijazzation Nation November 1998JOHNNY YOUNG - SHED YOUR SKIN It's pretty obvious from the opening track "Change" on this album that here we have quite an undiscovered talent ready to move into the spotlight. A great slow start to the song slides brilliantly into a great bit of heavy riffage to get your attention, alternating between the soft & loud sounds.

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Location Brooklyn, NY - USA

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