A blast from the past in a new age
When you think about rock and roll bands you may think about The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, AC/DC, The Beatles, Aerosmith and so many other famous rock bands with their awesome music. If people wish they saw any of these and other rock ‘n’ roll bands before they blew up, this is their chance.
There is one local band that is up and coming with great rock ‘n’ roll music like the bands of yesteryear right here in South Texas. This band loves to pay tribute to the founding fathers of rock and roll for their fans known as Rock ’N’ Riot. They play music that caters to the classic rocker’s love of Judas Priest, Ozzy, Motley, ZZ Top and more. I enjoyed their music in the past at their concerts and I’m going to their future ones.
Rock ‘N’ Riot is a group of four players. There’s Rocco (Rocco Eros) Eros Olvera who is the lead vocals with a rhythm guitar, Trey (Trey Eden) Gonzalez Canales on lead guitar and is a Texas A&M-Kingsville student, Seth (Seth Layne) Martinez who plays the bass and provides back-up vocals and Tony (Tony Lee) Lee Sandoval, another TAMUK student, who rocks the drums.
From listening to the fans and attending a few of their shows, it looks to be going well for them and they have a faithful fan base in McAllen, Texas. They are booking venues in Alice and other surrounding towns nearby.
They have so much fun with their shows and interact with their fans in between their performances but when they play their songs, you can see it in their eyes that they are in love with the music when they play. Their last show was in July at Texas Nugget, which was understaffed and under supplied for the crowd. The venues they performed at didn’t think it was going to happen but the band proved them wrong. Now the venue wants them back to play and they are glad to go back.
They have a few upcoming shows and the first is Sept. 24 at the VFW in Alice. They’ll be opening for Drums, a tribute to Fleetwood Mac. They will have two more concerts in October. The first is Oct. 8 again at the VFW in Alice and will feature their own music which is nothing but killer rock ‘n’ roll. The next concert will be on Oct. 29, at the Texas Nugget and it will be a Halloween-themed concert with a costume contest. The band is currently in the studio recording their first EP.
