The Suspects

Andy Hocker, O.S. (original Suspect), dishes on the origin of one of our most popular songs, “Caffeine“. Let’s hear it for affectations!

The question has been raised, “Who exactly is playing in the band for the reunion show?”.  An excellent question! This wouldn’t be a proper reunion if all of your favorite Suspects weren’t in attendance, so we are happy to report the line-up as we currently know it:

• Thomas (vocals)
• Alan (guitar)
• Bill (guitar)
• Charlie (bass)
• Joe (keyboards)
• Ryan (trombone)
• Steve (trumpet)
• Andy (sax)
• Chuy (sax)
• Aaron (trumpet)
• Jay (bass) <-- newly added!

This list is certainly not final… we’re trying get as many ex-Suspects on stage as we can. We’ll update this list as it changes.

The Suspects will reunite for one show only on Friday January 19th 2007 at the Continental Club in Houston. Details are sketchy beyond that, but we will update this space once more info is known.

We’re all damn happy to get the chance to play in front of y’all again, and we hope everyone can turn up for the party.

Are there monkeys flying out of it? Stay tuned for more info…

I’m slowly going through all my sites and upgrading the blogging software to the current versions and I’ve taken the time to install a new theme here at suspects.billgrady.com. I never really thought the default look that WordPress gave me felt right for The Suspects, but I also never had enough time to change it to what did “feel right”. Anyways, more changes will come along soon… a few people happen across this site every day and as long as they get something out of the music it’s worth my time to keep this info current. Thanks to all who email and buy Cd’s; old memories = good feelings.

Iv’e got a lot of CDs, and MySpace has a lot of ears! Go check out our new MySpace page at http://myspace.com/skasuspects!

Hello everyone. Nothing new to report in the way of reunion shows, but we still have CDs. Lots of CDs.

Back in June we teased you with some loose information on reunion rumors and bad haikus. After throwing around a lot of emails between the ex-Suspects, I will confirm and clarify what we know, what we attempted, and what we’re trying to do in the future.

What We Know

We know that all of the ex-Suspects are in favor of the idea of a reunion-type show.

What We Attempted

We tried to arrange a show for the July 4th, 2005 weekend, but not everybody was available. More recently, we pinged everybody to see if getting together for any type of a post-Katrina benefit show could be done… not everybody was available. Right after that, we compared schedules to see if doing a show around Christmas or New Years Eve was feasible. Not surprisingly, not everybody was available.

What We’re Trying To Do In The Future

The desire to play is there, but everything is dependent on the out-of-state ex-Suspects and their travel schedules. The best guess as to the next possible window of Suspects availablity is Summer of 2006.

Now you know.

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