Bio

. .You are listning to The RAVENZ new CD,17 classic cover songs and Cry Cry which is an original written by Tim Isaacs and myself about 40 years ago. . . .IT ALL STARTED in about 1965.A friend,Tim Isaacs found out I could play guitar then introduced me to a great singer, Danny Burns.We then met Billy McWhorter who was playing bass on a regular guitar.Then we needed a drummer who turned out to be my brother Alan ,which was always beating on anything from bucket lids to the kitchen table.We could tell he had rhythm and the rest was history.Tim was the only one who had driving license so he was very important since the rest of us were under 16.We got together with hardly any equipment.Very small amps turned up to 11, one microphone plugged into a guitar amp,no P.A. We were a garage band that hardly ever left the garage. . . .We did do a few shows and had a good following cause around here in this small community there was not much to do so we always had a decent crowd. We were all practically neighbors within 5 or 6 miles of each other.As time went by and we grew up and went seperate ways with the army and school and marriage and everything,we were seperated for about 35 years... . . .We are all in our mid-50s now.Since I had built a nice recording studio I thought it would be a good idea to re-unite and try it again.Low and behold we still live as neighbors.We started out with all the old 60\"s songs we used to do and really liked.Everyone made a list of their favorites.Some of them made it and some did’nt so we picked more of the same that we sounded pretty good on.Danny still had one of the old lyric books we copied from back then. We started out doing this for our own satisfaction and something to leave our kids and grandkids but it turned out to be a great CD and everyone wanted to buy one.We were very excited . . .All but one song are cover tunes from various artist.All the music and vocals were done by us with Xtra help on \"Yesterday\" where my cousin Kim Shepherd played Key’s and cello and my friend Joe Hampton played the guitar breaks. Kim also played key’s on \"Story in your Eyes\".The CD has 18 songs on it.Billy could’nt do the project so I had to do guitar and bass.There are cover songs on here from people like,The Beatles,Beau Brummels,Moody Blues,Neil Diamond,Steppenwolf,The Birds,The Youngbloods,The Vogues,The Who and others. It’s 2008 and we’re back in the studio cutting tracks for CD number 2.We will keep you posted during the completion of it. Hopefully it will not take another 40 years! . . .Thanks for listning;Randy Hayes(I also have another space on here talking about my other playing experiences when I traveled with J.D.Crowe and Keith Whitley and Tanya Tucker. www.myspace.com..randyhayes_studio