Rik Collins Thee RNR Crusader on Bass and Vox/
Christa DeErynn Collins on Vox,organ,harmonica,tambo,shakers and whatever else she could get her paws on!
/Tracy Lee Skull-- Lead Guitar
/John Langdon--Keys
/Rikki Styxx--Drums
/Managment & Booking
Contact band directly here or you can e-mail at rocknrollcrusader@hotmail.com
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To be sure, The Woolly Bandits have roots in sixties garage rock, but somewhere along the way they bring a unique twist to the table, giving their tunes a distinctive touch that you really can't put a copyright date on. Cool music is cool music, no matter what year it was recorded.
Splashed with saucy vocals, whipping keyboards, stabbing chords and crashing drumbeats, the band's new album, Say Hello to My Little Friend, is truly a classic of its kind.
Governed by ragged melodies and restless energy, "Don't Want You Around," "What Are You All About?" and "Let Me Know" spit and swagger with arrogance and aggressiveness. Fun and frisky, "Bomp Shu Bomp" checks in as a hot dance number with its shuffling rhythms and infectious refrain. A take of Syd Barrett's "Octopus" bristles with chugging riffs, that strange as it may seem, makes me think of Black Sabbath.
Say Hello to My Little Friend also features a manic cover of "Pushin' Too Hard," which isn't exactly surprising, since The Woolly Bandits do sound an awful lot like The Seeds at times. Scruffy, yet not sloppy, straight ahead garage rock honestly doesn't get much better than this.]
review for Music Dish, Jump, Jive, Harmonize by Beverly Paterson
The Woolly Bandits, born from the resurrection of Sky Sunlight Saxon and The Seeds.
Rik Collins (or Crusader as dubbed by Saxon), is the Lead screamer and Bassist for the Woolly Bandits. The story begins when Rik re-connected with Sky who was living in virtual exile in Mt. Shasta California to perform the Seeds music again starting in 2002. After three European tours and two US. tours the new Seeds recorded the Red Planet album in 2004. It was during those sessions along with Seeds band members at that time, drummer, keyboardist Dave Klein (Bomboras, Invisible Men, Finks, Ghastly Ones) , Mark bellgraph and Bassist Rik Collins (Venusians, Tongue, Decry, Caustic Resin) decided to kick out an album of their own.
The first album out on Dionysus Records "Say Hello To My Little Friend" is a flaming nose dive into the world of Garage, Punk, surf and Psychedelic Rock. With Garage rock pounders like, "Dont Want You Around", "Hard To Forget You", "Last Night", "Let Me Know", "Without You", and "What Are You All about". and new songs, "Bomp Shu Bomp", "In The Morning", and "Mollys Shell"
Rik also pays homage to Sky and The Seeds with a blistering version of "Pushin' Too Hard" and the bandits first album was spit out.
Rik along with new Woolly Bandit Christa DeErynn Collins returned back from the 2005 Seeds European tour a little crispy critters but ready to keep the Fuzzadelic train rollin'.... After playin with the Bandits and Seeds on the last European tour DeErynn now plays organ, harmonica, percussion as well as sharing the lead vocals with Rik, and now The Woolly Bandits will never be same, Lord help us! Oh yeah, while in London they recorded a live album at The Garage, slated to come out this year. the Woolly's are gearing up to play some dates in The U.S. and a full blown European tour starting in May 2009.
New album is just about done and will be released mid Fall 2008.
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Woow your show was the hottest thing since I met the devil in switzerland! And that was yeeears ago. I'm impressed! Yes, love to hook up for dinner -lets talk soon!! Love - Kea
