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The Bombastic Celebration of Arena Rock
It's like 20 concerts in one night!
A band puts on a concert - Hairball puts on an event! Hairball is a Rock & Roll experience you won't soon forget. The lights, sound, smoke, fire, bombs, and screaming hoards of avid fans...to merely call it a concert would be like calling Mount Rushmore a roadside attraction!
Vocalists Kris Vox, Dave Moody, and Drew Hart lead the band through a 2+ hour, mind-blowing, and dropdead accurate homage to some of the biggest arena acts in the world. Van Halen, KISS, Motley Crue, Queen, Journey, and Aerosmith are but a few of the acts fans will see brought to life. The Hairball stage becomes an entirely new rock concert before your very eyes countless times throughout the night.
The motor that drives the Hairball dragster consists of HBK on the electric bass, Billy on the drums, and Happy on the lead guitar. These Rock & Roll soldiers pride themselves on nailing some of the most memorable licks and chops of all time, while adding their own style and flare that they've cultivated over decades of tireless performing. This isn’t a side job. These guys eat, sleep and breathe Rock & Roll!
2023 finds Hairball celebrating its 23rd year of rocking hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Constantly adding more characters, more pyrotechnics, more lights, more sound, more props, more surprises...more everything! While Happy often tells the audience "Today is the first day is the rest of your life!" Hairball performs every show as though it could be their last. Every night is a 100% full-on, no-holds-barred, exciting, chaotic, fiery party that has to be experienced to be believed!
As important to Hairball as the music, are its fans. While many bands claim to have the best fans in the world, Hairball actually has! Whether they are 10 years old or 100, Hairball fans bring an unparalleled enthusiasm and energy to the show that enhances the arena experience. Hairball knows it wouldn't exist without its fans and takes every opportunity to let them know that.
Whether it's a pre-show meet and greet, hanging out at the merch booth, or chatting online, Hairball has a lot in common with its fans and it's always a good time when they get together. Don't confuse Hairball with the countless "80's Tribute" bands across the country. Hairball is an experience, an attitude, and expression of music that isn't simply a retro flashback, it's a way of life!
Meet The Band
HAPPY
Lead Guitar / Vocals
As a child, Happy was a huge fan of Evel Knievel, Kung-Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man with a side of Dean Martin. The culmination of these and the day his dad gave him a late 1950’s Gibson Hollowbody sealed his fate. He’s never forgotten that feeeling as a child that music brought him and he shares that with his fans every night!
Top 5 Favorite Guitarists:
Ace Frehley, Eddie Van Halen, Brian May, Nuno Bettencourt, Michael Schenker
Top 5 Favorite Bands:
KISS, Van Halen, Queen, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith
Favorite Act to perform in Hairball:
Van Halen
The best part of being in Hairball:
Selling smiles
Activities outside of Hairball:
Playing guitar and eating
BRIAN HBK
Bass / Vocals
It’s safe to say HBK was bitten by the music bug at a very early age. His home growing up was filled with music. Many hours were spent lying on the living room floor in front of the stereo speakers playing records by people like Three Dog Night, The Beatles, Foreigner and many others. His uncle played him KISS Alive II, then he heard Led Zeppelin and that was it…there was no turning back. He dreamed of getting to play and sing in front of people. He joined his first bar band at the age of 15 and has had the privilege of playing on different stages across North America ever since.
Top 5 Favorite Bassists:
John Paul Jones, John Deacon, Paul McCartney, Michael Anthony, Duff McKagen
Top 5 Favorite Bands:
Led Zeppelin, Queen, KISS, Metallica, Extreme
Favorite Act to perform with Hairball:
Tough call…I’ll go with Guns N’ Roses
The best part of being in Hairball:
The energy of the audience during the show!
Activities outside of Hairball:
Martial arts, travel, cars and family
BILLY
Drums
Billy’s musical upbringing started early, by steeping himself in his older sister’s classic rock records and 8-tracks, as well as being force fed piano lessons. At age 11, Billy picked up the violin. And while he took to it quickly, he also realized it didn’t rock AT ALL. So, when drums presented themselves a year later, the choice was obvious, and there was no looking back.
Billy has since chalked up nearly 30 years as a professional live and studio drummer, traveling the world playing a wide array of musical styles through the years. But he always will be a rocker at heart, and is right at home in the rock n roll circus that IS Hairball!
Top 5 Favorite Drummers:
John Bonham, Alex Van Halen, Neil Peart, Terry Bozzio, Phil Rudd
Top 5 Favorite Bands:
Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Rush, King Crimson, Aerosmith
Favorite Act to perform with Hairball:
I love playing all of it! But I give the nod to Van Halen.
The best part of being in Hairball:
Playing the show!! Duh!
Activities outside of Hairball:
Recording drum tracks at my house, in my pajamas; golf, bicycling, hanging out with Sugar (my Boston Terrier), traveling to new places and familiar favorites, both here and abroad.
KRIS VOX
Vocals
Kris started playing music in IL as a drummer at the age of 13. The group he was playing with needed a singer so he started doing both. At the age of 18, he moved to MN and after a year of playing drums at local clubs around Minneapolis, he was offered a position as a lead vocalist. The rest is history and he never looked back.
Top 5 Favorite Vocalists:
Lou Gramm, Joe Lynn Turner, Freddie Mercury, Steve Walsh, Paul Rodgers
Top 5 Favorite Bands:
KISS, Foreigner, Queen, Bad Company, The Beatles
Favorite Character to perform:
Rob Halford with a motorcycle
The best part of being in Hairball:
Doing what I love for a living, I never work a day in my life.
Activities outside of Hairball:
Recording, playing guitar and drums, raising my dogs, and loving my wife.