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"Greasy, breezy, sometimes sleazy lowdown in the street rock & roll"

"R&B injected guitar rock"

"Good pop melodies abound with bluesy guitar riffs"

"Pop, rock, & blues all molded together with fluid guitar riffs and melodies.

"This is good old straight ahead rock for the new millennium"

"Kalz & his group, "Impala Deluxe" have rediscovered what rock and roll was supposed to be all about"
David G. Kalz
Guitar and vocals
David G. Kalz, played guitar with Devon Allman (son of rock legend, Greg Allman) in Honeytribe, Kalz toured both coasts and the Midwest with the Greg Allman Band, and the Allman Brothers.
With Midwest buzz band Suave Octopus, Kalz toured the Midwest and south extensively, releasing two successful CDs.
During a brief left turn into country music, Kalz found himself recording at Willie Nelson's studio in Austin, Texas with Grammy Award winning engineer Richard Mullen behind the board.

Mark T. Quinn
Guitar and vocals
Mark T. Quinn, sang and played for many successful Midwestern acts including 90's alt rock band "Lexx Luthor".
Playing the part of Roger Waters in one of the country's top Pink Floyd tribute bands, Quinn has played sold out theaters throughout the Midwest.

Rich Ellington
Bass and vocals
Rich Ellington toured with Kalz as bassist for "Suave Octopus".
Recorded at the renown Triclops Recording Studio (smashing pumpkins, matchbox 20, hole) with the band Alcohol Ignition Switch.
Ellington has toured Europe, Greenland and the middle east playing for our nations troops abroad.

Francis Gomez
Drums and vocals
Francis Gomez was the drummer for the power-pop trio in the 90's called
"Roger From the Dark".
Roger From the dark released two successful CD's and toured throughout the Midwest, and also traveled over seas in support of our soldiers.

Impala Deluxe has opened for Chuck Berry (twice)
· The Fabulous Thunderbirds
· John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
· Indigenous
· Styx, Bad Company, Billy Squire
· Nazareth
· Eric Gales

Impala Deluxe has been compared to
· Big Head Todd & the Monsters
· Lenny Kravitz
· Arc Angels

David G. Kalz turned down auditions for
· Sheryl Crowe
· Tracy Chapman
he didn't really know who they were at the time

Mark T. Quinn's cousin, Charlie Allen Martin played drums for Bob Seger and is featured on his infamous double "Live Bullet" album Back in the early-mid nineties, Suave Octopus and Lexx Luthor played many shows together.

Mark T. Quinn's alter ego band, "El Monstero Y Los Masked Avengers", is really Capital Recording Artist, "Stir" with Mark on vocals & additional guitars.

 
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