The band BroKin has been in the Anchorage rock scene for about a year now, or maybe a little longer. The frist time I met these guys was at the East 40 Bowling lanes in Muldoon. It was BroKin and SpeedTrap that night and ever since we have all had a mutual respect for one another musicaly and personaly. These are some of the coolest guys you could ever meet.
BroKin started off as one of those power trio bands. Rob on drums, Jeremy on Guitar/Vocals, and Kevin on bass. Kevin never liked playing bass and is much better at guitar anyway. So it seemed only obvious to get a different bass player and stick Kevin on lead guitar. Cool.... No problem. So they got Jodi Hendrix, bass player/family man extrodinaire. Things were working out well. The music was great, the stage show improving, and the friend base expanding. Being in a band however takes up a lot of time and effort. Jodi has a family and needs to spend the majority of his time away from work with his wife and son Jonas. So being in a band, as appealing and fun as it seems, was not the best of ways to spend his time. So Jodi left BroKin.
So the band is left without a bassist. No problem...... make a few phone calls, (really just one call), and get a new one. What better person to call than another bass player/writer extrodinaire...... Eddie Walsh. Former bassist for SpeedTrap and Seven. Things are going great according to Rob and the boys, and Eddie is bringing in a whole new dimension to the way things go in BroKin. They've started writing more new material, and are set to record sometime this summer or sooner. Apparently they are even considering a name change......... Who knows if that will be the case, but one of the names up for consideration is "Running with Scissors". Be on the lookout for thes guys. Nothing's gonna hold 'em back.
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