RC5

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The young Robb Clarke got his initial introduction to the great scriptures of thrashrock when an older friend (Mike Sharman) turned him on to an 8-track tape of the first New York Doll album. "After that, it was just all down hill", says Robb. "I started exchanging 8-tracks and the next one I got was RAW POWER". He remembers sitting at home listening to the Iggy and The Stooges classic through headphones and thinking. "I've arrived. My stomache got warm and I said 'Holy shit, this is the kind of music that I want to do'". Not that there was a straight line from Robb's quasi-religious experience and the formation of the mighty RC5. He'd sung for punk outfits such as ZIPGUN and AMA ,(not to mention The TRIDS in 82', a punk/glam band among metal bands of Lake Hills) before he and like minded guitarist Todd Ohashi got together in 1997. While their love for the likes of Johnny Thunders and James Williamson got the band going, the RC5 sound incorporates lots of musical genres, they both agree. "Those are mobvious influences of ours, but everybody in the band pulls from way different things", says Todd, who admits his first 8-track was Permanent Waves by Rush. "They're a well-rounded thrashrock entity", quips Robb. Bassist Jason Freeman says he prefers to check out the influences of the bands that influenced him. Instead of learning Thunders licks, "I'll go all the way back to Chuck Berry or Howlin Wolf-steal from the originals". And drummer Erick Erickson has a fine local t

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