American Headtrip:
American Headtrip are a four piece Hard Rock band who opened this night’s festivities with their straight-up, no non-sense rock attitude and an eleven song set that fired up the Starlite Lounge audience! In January 2023, the band’s singer, known as Roland, made a full lineup change that started by recruiting hard rockin’ drummer Joe Ramirez. In Februrary of 2023, rock solid guitarist Darius Tonachio came on board and finaly to complete the line-up came the addition of bassist Greg Tuner. Bassist Turner may be on loan from the Hard Rocking band Ten Cent Revenge as he is listed on the AHT website as being on board for their Spring and Summer shows. Having never caught AHT live before, I had no reference of the band’s sound until this show and was really impressed with their rock solid performance. The rhythm section of Turner and Ramirez work well together as they lay down thick and heavy grooves that give guitarist Tonachio a solid foundation for his rhythm playing and the freedom to rip it up on the lead guitar solos. This solid line-up gives singer Roland the ability to do what his does best which is; moving about the stage, interacting with the audience and jamimg out on rhythm guitar.
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