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Romeo Spike

Rock / Indie

ATL, GA

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Brought together through mutual friends in 2006, Mike Kunz (then living in Chicago) and Donn Aaron (Atlanta) began with a weekly songwriting challenge to trigger each other’s creativity. Each Saturday night they would email each other a new song, and stay up late into the night reworking them over the phone. The band materialized almost by accident as the pair quickly realized their chemistry had a life of its own. They soon ditched the song-writing competition to start work on the full-length album “For the Cause,” and began calling themselves Romeo Spike. A majority of the record was recorded partially in Chicago and partially in Atlanta as the two sent tracks back and forth across the internet. After several short trips South during the recording of the album, Kunz moved to Atlanta to make Romeo Spike a full-time realization.

During production of “For the Cause,” the two caught the attention of Grammy award winner, and long-time Elton John mix engineer/producer Matt Still who produced, mixed and provided back-up vocals on almost half the album. Romeo Spike’s refined rock is led by Kunz’s vocals and Rhodes electric piano, and Aaron’s atomic pedal steel (which has been described as “playing

lightening”). These staples of their sound are supported by a standard rock rhythm section. In addition, a main strength of the duo is found in the accomplished guitarmanship of both Kunz and Aaron. As a teen, Aaron was featured in both “Guitar Player” and “Guitar World” magazines. In 1991, he was the lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the group "Mary My Hope”. He has recorded guitar with Ludacris on a track that was featured in the Martin Lawrence motion picture “National Security.” In November 2005, Aaron's solo album "Unfinished Symphonies" was chosen by Performing Songwriter magazine as one of their "Top 12 Independent DIY Releases."

No matter how slick and finessed their productions can become, “It’s all about the song,” Kunz says.“Songwriting is this weird form of magic where if you happen to be in the right headspace,” Kunz said. “You just have to play one note and listen for all the music that is already there.” Aaron describes his approach to songwriting as an exploration in complete mystery: “I liken it to Tarot Card reading, or playing with a Ouija Board. I find the whole thing to be a fragile mystery, and I leave it at that.”

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• Mike Kunz - vocals/rhodes/guitar

• Donn Aaron - pedal steel/guitars/casio/sound FX/background vocals

• Will Brown - drums

• Skyler Ross - bass

beginning to feel plugged in

updated Jun 26, 2009

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