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Steve Bonner - drums

At age 7 Steve was learning how to play the guitar until he found his uncle's drums in the closet. He ditched the 6-string much to the dismay of his father, and started playing drums and never looked back. After lessons from various instuctors, he played in the marching band at Chamberlain High as the head (chief) drummer in charge and was heavily influenced by friend and teacher Joe Murphy. He always knew he wanted to be a performer and his musical influences came from his parents who always had on vinyls and concerts playing around the clock. Steve's drumming style comes from such greats as Phil Collins, the late and great Jeff Porcaro of Toto, Chester Thompson, and Vinny Colaiuta.

When the toads aren't playing Steve is watching Seminole football, selling drugs for Forest Pharmaceuticals and spending time with his two boys... Brock and Cole.

Chad Rose - vocals

Chad knew he wanted to rock the second he saw the video for "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" by Night Ranger. And he's proud of it. Imagine that? He's been singing since age 4 and run the gamut from opera to Cole Porter to Counting Crows. He's also a writer heavily influenced by Chaucer, Keats and Faulkner. See his taste isn't all bad. Now days you'll find him reading every american history book he can find, training for the ironman and listening to Taylor Swift because his daughter does.

Chris Ryals - bass guitar

Here's where Chris' rockin bio will go once he sends it to us!

Eddy Totten - lead guitar

Eddy's interest in guitar was inspired by three different events in his life: his grandmother's hillbilly/southern Baptist heritage, watching flamenco players on the street corners of Spain as a little boy, and also the hippie rock revolution as influenced by his uncles and aunt.

Eddy enjoys all styles of music and tries to pull from them as he feels fit - sometimes all within the same guitar solo!
A good description of Eddy's playing is Santana meets Robin Trower at a hillbilly church for Sunday service.

Larry Wiezycki - keyboards, rhythm guitar

It all started with a first grade teacher playing songs on the piano for her class - that's the power of a teacher for you! Coming from a family with no musical background or interest, Larry didn't even have a piano in his house until decades later but still the hunger was there. Luckily his grandmother picked up on the interest and started him in piano lessons at the age of 7.

Biking to and from his grandparent's house each day to practice (since they had a piano), the chance to play was something he always cherished. Maybe this was why he always loved finding a random piano somewhere in a store, classroom, hotel, you name it... if it had keys Larry would start playing it, and people would gather. "This was very cool" Larry thought.

Little has changed since then. After regular gigging in a rock band and the attempts to get that elusive record deal seemed to become much more unimportant than other things (like starting a family), Larry found a home at Grace Family Church playing on Saturday nights again. It's a pretty awesome gig, without all the broken beer bottles and cigarette smell!