Jamie Ray - Lead Vocals, Guitar
Patrick Jason - Bass, Backing Vocals
Brad Snipes - Drums, Backing Vocals
"Blanco Diablo's debut
'Paper Poison Revolution' is a riff-riot collection of songs that lumbers
and stomps at just the right pace (think Urge Overkill meets Sabbath
and AC/DC's Young brothers at Billy Gibbons' Texas ranch)".
-- T. Ballard Lesemann from Charleston City Paper (Charleston,
SC)
BLANCO DIABLO is everything the band's name suggests and even some
things it doesn’t. This is a band on a mission and not one of those
panty-waist, boy band evil missions either - this is dangerous rock
& roll that engages the brain as well as the bones. The band's timeless
rock songs have an edge all their own, honed with a relentlessly intense
musical middle finger thrust at double-talking politicos that will define
a genre, not mimic one.
Tearing it up with such national acts as Tantric, Drivin n Cryin, Brides
of Destruction, Rose Hill Drive, Firehouse, Jackyl, and Gary Hoey, BLANCO
DIABLO continues to establish themselves as a band with a distinct style
and abiding love for music. Be it with full-blown electric intensity
or soulful bluesy jams, BLANCO DIABLO often perform in the Southeast,
New York City, and the U.K. Their debut CD Paper Poison Revolution was
released on Rock Ridge Music on April 25th, 2006. An exclusive single
from the CD, titled "Fix Me Again", resulted in 6000 downloads in the
first week of release on WindowsMedia.com. On their 2006 U.K. tour the
band performed at the acclaimed Oswestry Music Live Festival in Shropshire
County England with over 12,000 in attendance. 2007 saw the band return
to an even larger reception at the Oswestry Music Live festival and
subsequent successful tour of the UK. In 2008, the band returned to
the UK for 2 more successful headline tours, radio interviews and appearances,
and festival performances. The summer 2008 UK tour concluded with the
band recording their sophomore disc with Grammy-nominated producer Chris
Tsangarides at the Ecology Rooms Studio in Kent, England.
Blanco Diablo has gained solid local, regional, and national press including
a highlight in the November 2006 issue of Modern Drummer magazine recognizing
the band's relentless touring schedule.
The band gained regular radio play in the the Southeastern US on stations
such as WEND, WRXR, WOBX, WXQR, WRCQ, WYBB, WTPT, and WBZT for their
debut single "Fix Me Again". In the UK, the band has 3 different singles
in rotation on Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show on BBC 6 Music, Radio Maldwyn
in Shropshire County, CRMK 89.8 in Milton Keynes, England, Sunshine
Radio 106.2 FM in Herefordshire, England, and Rock247 Radio in Staffordshire,
England. From December 2006 through January 2007, the Speed Channel
on Cable and Satellite Television featured the band's single on the
Speed Report show.
Fall 2008 had the band featured on various NFL games on the FOX Network
with their song “Fix Me Again” being broadcast nationwide!
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