
2 Drunks and A Guitar
Rock, Alternative, Americana
From: St Louis, MO, United States
Band Members
- Rick Heim - Bass-Vocals-Guitars
- Jr Richardson - Vocals-Guitars
About Band
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We have been picked up by radio station KDJE 100.3 FM in Little Rock Arkansas, for airplay. BUT, we need your help to stay there. By clicking on the above link, you will be taken to the 2 Drunks and A Guitar KDJE webpage. When there, just click and play the song Demon Eyes. Everytime you click on the play button it moves us up the station programmers play list. WE GET MORE AIRPLAY!. The higher we get on his list, the more airplay we get. Pretty simple, but we need you, our fans, to help us!!! Go ahead, click the link ON TOP!!! It's FREE!
As of July 18th our song Demon Eyes has climbed from 5th place to 3rd place on the charts of Hardcoremix.com. We also got news from Indie Show Case that our songs are quickly becoming some of the most requested songs!
This is the Band ----- 2 Drunks and A Guitar. We are just 2 guys that have been playing together for a while, just drinking beer and writing songs. We were told by other friends we should share the songs with other people outside of the small group that hears us play around the fire, or in the barn. So here are some samples for you to enjoy. We're sitting around drinking beer and making up songs. Not trying to prove anything except we have fun! If you like the music please tell us, and tell your friends. If we have enough people that like us we will post more music. We would really like to know what you think. We don't have a real drummer with us, we just find one to record. Same with the keyboards. Maybe one day when we stop drinking beer and BBQing we can fill these spots. In the mean time......we're having fun.-
We now have ladies spaghetti T shirts for sale with the 'band logo' for sale. Wear one to a show, get in free! The link to buy one is below, and pictures of the shirts are in the photo section!
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Rick Heim Bio
Rick started playing 6 string country guitar about the age of 10 years old. At that time living in Festus Mo. At the age of 14 the family move to St Louis where Rick was introduced to Rock music, and the bass guitar. As time went on Rick started several garage and basement bands working on his writing skills, and the new instrument, the bass guitar.
Eventuly Rick started a local copy band called RAZZ which brought JR Richardson in the picture as the 3rd guitarist for Razz. They had the pleasure of being the opening act for Billy Thourpe on his last American tour. Also opening up for the Michael Stanley Band at 6 Flags over MidAmerica. That is the night their drummer became very sick and was hospitalized. Their booking agent made several frantic calls to keep the gig going, and was able to get the drummer from the John Cougar Mellencamp band, Tommy Knowels to sit in with the band that night. Later that night 6 Flags told Rick that was one of the craziest nights they had that year at 6 Flags. Complete success!
Razz went on to be a favorite band in one of the night clubs Chuck Berry owned in Wentzville Mo for about 3 years. The club, The Backroom, later changed owners and names to The Homeplate Lounge, and kept Razz as the headliner act. But as fate would have it, the band Rick and JR Richardson worked so hard to keep hot, ended.
Rick and JR Richardson continued to keep writing together and playing , and writing songs in the barn in Licking Mo. Not really focusing on the " playing out" thing, but just having some fun playing for friends in the barn and around the pond.
"We like our beer and love our friends", Rick said. We love playing for them and trust their opinons. When they kept saying over and over we should put our songs out for everyone to hear, eventually that is what we did, said JR Richardson.
Both guys laughing, they admitted that the band was named 2 Drunks and A Guitar for a reason by their fans in the barn.
Bio For JR Richardson
JR Richardson got his first 6-string guitar around 8 or 9 years old. His grand father taught him his first basic open chords. Proudly watching (and laughing) thru his struggles. Then he met up with some of the neighborhood guys, which were jamming, and singing in the basements. He watched, jammed, and learned the Rock n Roll power chords from his friends. There he developed his style, and learned how to sing and play, at the same time.
There were a lot of influences in JR's life. Some of which go back as far as, Steppinwolf, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, just to name a few. It's cool having a big brother to introduce you to the early Rock music, said JR.
After many, many, mind numbing experiences with the basement and garage bands, it was time for JR to move on to bigger and better things. I put myself on the market looking for a working band, I wanted to be playing the big clubs, he said. After playing and singing in several working bands in St Louis, he met someone else that had the same ideas as he does, Rick Heim. JR joined Rick's band RAZZ, and played the local circuit around the St. Louis area with them, for a few years. Together they achieved a few good gigs as opening acts for such bands as, Billy Thourpe from Australia, and The Michael Stanley Group.
As RAZZ ended, JR and Rick ended up being the best of friends, and stayed together working on originals. Doing nothing more than playing in a barn in Licking Missouri. Never really thinking about playing any clubs again. Writing and having fun was at the head of the list, said JR. We liked sitting back, and drinking our beer, and playing for our friends that came over to the barn to party, he said. We would have so much fun banging on the guitars, and partying in the barn, our friends dubbed us, 2 Drunks and A Guitar!
As chance would have it, their friends liked their songs so much they would keep saying, "Why don't you guys record these songs, their great everyone would really like this stuff"!
JR Richardson, together with Rick Heim, finally broke down and recorded some of their music and now is offering it to everyone else to enjoy.
JR just said, "Just watch out for 2 Drunks and a Guitar falling your way"!