Formed 1997, U.S.A.
Albums:
1997
Funny Money
1999
Back Again
2001
Even Better...Live!
2003
Skin To Skin
2006
Stick It!
History:
With the demise of Kix in the mid nineties, vocalist Steve Whiteman put
together a similar no-frills hard rock band called Funny Money. The boys hit
the club scene in Maryland and adjoining states just as Kix had done almost
twenty years prior.
Whiteman recruited Dean Cramer (guitar), Billy Andrews
(guitar), Ned Meloni (bass) and Geoff Burell (drums). The band hit
every smoke filled bar they could find, and impressed audiences with their original
songs and Kix classics.
The signed with the independent label Kivel Records and released their
self-titled debut in 1997. Of course music from this genre was completely ignored by
radio and television, but Whiteman and his new band refused to sell out to
the masses.
Two more albums would follow before personnel changes hit the band in 2002.
Andrews, Meloni and Burell left amicably to be replaced by
Louis Coppola, Mark Schenker and Sam Stilwell respectively for the
Skin To Skin album, but a short time later Kix alumni
Jimmy Chalfant was recruited on drums and Rob Galpin on guitar. It would be this lineup that
reunited with Midnite Dynamite producer Beau Hill on 2006's Stick It! If you
were a fan of Kix, you will love Funny Money...what else needs to be said?
Links:
The Official Funny Money Page
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