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Hot Pursuit is a Classic
Rock and Blues Band located in Orange and Los
Angeles Counties. We are available
to play any engagement from concerts to clubs,
weddings and corporate events, and can even learn
songs that you request. We play a wide variety
of songs from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and even the
80's and 90's.
By special arrangement
only, we can be booked
to present our unique and exciting "History
of Rock and Roll Show".
Some of us have been playing together since
1978, and we are a very tight and strong unit.
We're well balanced with FOUR lead singers, male
and female. Instrumentation consists of Bass,
Drums, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, & Keyboards.
We can even throw in Sax when required.
We are fully self contained and can travel anywhere
in the Southern California area.
Check us out:
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Pearl
- Guitar, Bass & Vocals
"Pearl
the Gurl"
is is a dynamic and effortless guitar
player, and a smoooooth vocalist.
She grooves
with the best of 'em, and when called
for, she can wail away on some screamin'
leads.
Along with
Suzie (see below) she was instrumental
in starting the internationally known
"Cadillac Cowgirls" and
eventually moved on to the all girl
power pop trio "Madcap",
again with Suzie.
When Johnny
Blue approached her to join Hot Pursuit,
wooing her away from her then current
project, she finally acquiesed and
is now a cherished and indispensible
member.
Pearl also
fills in on Bass to give The Doc a
chance to scream away at guitar.
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Sue
"Suzie" Helgeson -
Drums & Vocals
Ya
wanna dance? You won't be able to
help yourself when Sue sits on her
drum throne. Solid, tight, and utterly
in the groove, Suzie lays down a backbeat
that speaks to your feet and gets
your booty shakin'.
Suzie
started playing drums in 7th grade
in marching band. She got her first
drum set three years later and played
with local bands in Oregon and Washington
over the next three years. Says Suzie,
"one band asked if I could sing
and I said 'I dunno! I'll try!'. I
quickly went from singing one or two
songs to more than thirty".
Suzie
moved to California in 1970 where
she studied music in college for six
years, and played with a few local
Rock 'n' Roll bands. Around this time
she met The Doc. Suzie tells this
story, "I was doing some recording/singing,
and I went for this high note and
what came out was a kind of growly,
schreech sound. After someone I didn't
know came up to me and said 'WOW!
That sounded sooooo cool!'. I thought,
'OK, maybe I'll work on that - thus
my "Janis" voice began."
In
1978, Suzie joined "Caddillac
Cowgirls", an internationally
known Country Rock band. They started
out at the world famous "Palomino
Club" opening for the likes of
the "Burrito Brothers".
From 1982 - 1986 they toured Japan,
Korea, the Phillipines, Alaska and
many a military base.
After
a stint with the all girl power pop
trio, "Madcap", with her
friends Pearl and Lisa, where the
girls wowed Camp Pendleton for two
years, Suzie took a much needed break
from the world of music. She now wows
'em again with her own brand of sizzle
and sass.
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Danny
"Doctor
Midnite" Kearney - Bass,
Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Vocals
Doc
mostly sits back and pumps out the
huge bass sounds that pound your chest
and get you really "feeling"
the music. Doc is multitalented in
that he also rips out some mean guitar
licks, both electrically and acoustically.
The
young Doctor grew up in New York City
listening to rock and roll as long
as he can remember. He bugged his
parents for a guitar until they couldn't
stand it any longer and finally they
gave in and bought him his first Danelectro.
That was the Christmas that the Beatles
first appeared on the Ed Sullivan
Show. The Doctor grew up learning
all the Beatles songs as well as others
of the 60's as soon as they were released.
His
first gig lasted for two years. He
played at Folk Mass while attending
parochial school. Soon the Doctor
was playing at Junior High and High
School dances and parties. After high
school Doc went to the State University
of New York at Oswego for a year as
a music major. The Doc wanted to rock
and soon got bored with classical
and left school and left for Los Angeles.
Then
it was on to Golden West College for
two years while he studied Recording
Arts + Sciences. There he appeared
on two school albums. After graduating
he worked in the electronic music
lab at Golden West College for the
next five years. He also ran his own
eight track studio for many years
where he engineered and produced hundreds
of demos for local groups as well
as eleven record projects.
The
doctor also played in numerous popular
top 40 bar bands as a bass player
including "Twist Of Fate",
"The Names", "Straight
Up", and "The Touch".
During the last five years the Doc
has gotten back to his songwriting
roots (he has written over three hundred
songs).
Visit The Docs website: DrMidnite.com
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Johnny
"Blue" - Keyboards &
Vocals
Blue
tickles the ivories. Blue manhandles
the ivories. Blue shreds the ivories
(and if Jerry Lee hadn't done it already,
he would light 'em on fire). If you
like a good Bluesy B3 organ, Blue
will satisfy your need. Having found
a sudden interest in piano in the
fourth grade, he never looked back.
Music has been an integral part of
his life ever since.
Blue's credits include touring two
countries in the all original rock
band "Raisin' Caine", back
in the late 70's. Blue also was instrumental
in forming the Orange County local
A-list bands "Straight Up"
and "Twist Of Fate" in the
80's and 90's. He then took off to
Memphis to "absorb the blues
firsthand" and ended up forming
the all blues band "De Delta
Dawgs", with members of "Canned
Heat" and "John Lee Hookers"
band, which played Bluestock (a major
festival on Beale Street in Memphis)
and the Memphis Blues Festival, as
well as many clubs on world famous
Beale Street and up and down the "delta".
He
has toured all 48 of the continental
United States as keyboardist and musical
director with the national act "The
Bobby Freeman Show", as well
as touring extensively with the International
Reggae Band "Rascalin
& The Roots Rockers",
most notably, headlining the "Annual
Bob Marley Festival Tour" series.
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Copyright © 2002,
Hot Pursuit. All Rights Reserved.
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