Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Rob Dexter (Vocals, Bass) of Orlando hard-rockers, Kings County.
5 albums that changed your life:
1. Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
2. UFO – Obsession
3. Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
4. Yes – Fragile
5. Aerosmith – Rocks
5 artists that influenced you as a musician:
1. Iron Maiden
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Van Halen
4. UFO
5. Collective Soul
5 favorite live albums:
1. Foghat – Live
2. Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive
3. UFO – Strangers In The Night
4. Kiss Alive II
5. The Scorpions – World Wide Live
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories:
1. Orange Beach, AL – While walking into a bank to cash a check a foot long rat ran in as I opened the door and all I heard were tellers screaming and standing on chairs.
2. Cancun, Mexico – Got questioned by the international FBI about a supposed mafia guy living next to the band’s condo. mafia? didnt see a thing.
3. While performing at Disney, we were playing one of our heaviest songs and noticed a guy by the front of the stage head banging, turned out to be TV Personality Drew Carey.
4. Nantucket, MA – While playing a show at the world famous Chicken Box, some guy jumped on stage with us to play tambourine, turned out to be singer Jimmy Buffett.
5. Entered into a contest with iHeart radio and live nation for original music, we won the contest and we got the opening slot for Bon Jovi.
5 favorite movies:
1. The Omega Man
2. The Hangover
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Papillon
5. It (2017)
Like everyone else, we have all been locked down in our homes. You can either waste away doing nothing or sets goals and keep busy. We chose with the unexpected time we have to continue writing new music and mastering our craft. Have to keep the momentum of the band growing. There will be a time when we can get back out and perform live and we need to be ready.
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