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I was born out of the ashes of two great Galway bands; II Toke Pass – Reggae/Ska/Buckfast covers band and Big Bag of Sticks – Reggae/Ska/Trad/Punk band. My first rehearsal was in the Oslo Hotel in Salthill Galway. Peat, Dave, Dara and Keith we're already there for two days and had set-up Rory's drum kit that Dave sat in on. You should've seen the look on his face when he saw his beloved kit just fired together; not at all in the exacting way he did it. It was a look of terror, anger and containment!!! From there I moved...

Big John and Scotty formed the Saddle Tramps in 1999. They started out as a comedy duo playing in places like The Improve doing shortened versions of some of their original songs and interjecting with standup improv comedy. The band then got it’s first gigs as a band and added a drummer and eventually by 2000 the gun-slinging go-go dancer Suzy Switchblade. From day one The Saddle Tramps played relentlessly in and around Reno as well as on the road to support their first 3 CDs. Their rigorous show schedule and work ethic got them signed to L.A. based Split...

"What do I know anyway? I'm just some dumb kid," sings Adam Amoroso in A World Like This. Mildly sarcastic? Indeed, but hardly self-descriptive of him, nor his mates Andrew Leader, Eric Grava, and Martin DiLiegro. The four teamed up to form The Mystery Tramps on Halloween night, 2004, in their hometown of Lynnfield, Massachusetts. That was not the beginning, but rather another page in what the boys profess to be the fateful series of events that brought them together. They chose the name because of its roots in the seminal stage of rock and roll history (the lyrics of...