The DEAD KENNY G'S are:
Skerik: Sax, keys. Mike Dillon: Drums, vibraphone, tabla, percussion. Brad Houser: Bass, baritone sax.
Go HERE for the Dead Kenny G's MySpace Page.
Breaking news (May 8, 2012) - New 12" "GORELICK" is OUT NOW!!
Hit up the ROYAL POTATO FAMILY website to order your vinyl and digi release!!
Limited Edition 12-inch EP w/ mp3 download card (only 500 copies available)
The Dead Kenny Gs have made their punk rock masterpiece. A 17-minute EP entitled Gorelick. Not one more
second is needed as the DKGs slash and burn their way through six tracks, including originals like “Beer,” “Daddy
Issues” and “Punk Rock Girlfriend,” plus a bruising rendition of their namesake The Dead Kennedys’ “Kill The
Poor.” Gorelick will be released on vinyl as a limited pressing with only 500 copies being issued, after which the
recording will be available solely as a digital download. The combustible punk jazz trio featuring saxophonist
Skerik, bassist Brad Houser and vocalist/vibraphonist/drummer Mike Dillon have garnered a fanatical cult fan-base
over years of incessant touring and critical praise, as well as through related projects like Garage A Trois, Critters
Buggin and Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle.
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Given its play-on-words moniker that simultaneously drives a sock down the mouth of smooth-jazz king Kenny G
and recalls the early ’80s hardcore-punk band The Dead Kennedys, the powerhouse trio taps into a sound that
fuses jazz and punk. It’s a crazy mix played intensely by a group that has the skill and knowledge to pull it off.”
– Alarm Magazine
”Dead Kenny Gs is a definitive statement of purpose: a resolute denunciation of all-things artificial. Skerik and his
compatriots use their un-compromised art to draw an aesthetic line in the sand at the expense of crass
commercialization that contaminates our art, our food, and what passes for our political discourse. It’s fun,
fearless, and, if you are the ass-shaking type, you can get down accordingly.” – Popmatters
Also available - Operation Long Leash on Royal Potato Family available now!!
Click on the "Music" link above to listen to songs from Operation Long Leash
Dead Kenny G's at The Fox Theater 12/31/10 opening for Les Claypool
"Birther Blues->Punk Rock Guilt"