Last updated 03/26/2010
Band News: Can you believe I finally updated the site news I thinks is been a year and one month since last time DOH!!!
MGB
Next gig, Harry's Cocktail Lounge Pismo Beach
CA, Sunday afternoon March 7th (2010) from 3pm till 8pm. Great
hang in a beautiful beach town that likes to party. Tons of shops and
restaurants to check out, parking is free in the dirt lot by the Pier
or $1 an hour on the streets.
Recording news Raw video tracks can be seen at http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=48428890
UPDATE The recording is DONE!!! A 10 song album of some of our favorite songs dubbed “Recycled”. The disk sounds freakin great engineered and produced by Jimbo James Barton with some help from Tyler Hole of Motograter and Mark Schisel aiding in backing vocal recording. But we finally finished it and a few CD's have been circulating around via friends or MP3's by email, email us if you want to get a few tracks sent to you FREE!!! Hit up a guy in the band for a limited free copy of the CD.
DRUMMER NEWS! Yes its true once again we have a new drummer this time Ray Rocha hailing from North County Atascadero CA. So North County will be seeing a lot more of MGB
SINGER NEWS! What??? Yep true again we have brought in Kelly Atwell another North County resident lending his vocal chops to expand the range and versatility of the MGB band. Everyone is digging the many added new tunes and expanded song list, stay tuned for some originals making their way into our every set. The idea was bringing a strong vocalist like Kelly allows me more time to focus on more rippin guitar plus our backing vocals just get stronger.
For those who want to get on our proverbial SHIT LIST, this is a GIG mailing list so you know when and where MGB will be going... or I mean playing next... Click here to add your email address to our SHIT LIST!
http://johnnypunches.com/db5/00417/johnnypunches.com/_uimages/PORTAJONSBIO017.jpg Click here for some press info on the Portable Johnnies interviewed by Jeni Conte.
For booking for private events please call (805) 478-7017 or email
If your also stumbling upon this site in search of Gene Baker's guitar building fetish you have come close enough to get to the source just click the FTI link below and you will be redirected to the place it all happens.
Video clip updated to MPEG format for all viewers Mac or PC, let me know if the video doesn't play for you.
Check out the "Sweeping Arpeggio's" clip from the Mean Gene's Insane Lead Guitar Video, see the new Video sidebar tab link
Full Tilt MP3's Mean Gene and the boys back in 1989 doing all that 80's sorta shred!
I added a Baker Pics page and will continue to upload more photo gallery's of the guitars and people that made us famous.
Hot of the press from Europe's Guitar Buyer Magazine, Baker Guitars makes the front cover and a 6 page cover story. Click on the page for a PDF file version for your reading pleasure.