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Super 400
12+ albums
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Troy, NY: Kenny Hohman picked up the guitar as a young boy after hearing Eddie Van Halen's mind-bending tracks on the early Van Halen records. Joe Daley's two older brothers were already established musicians in their home town, so when Joe was a teenager, he cut his teeth playing the drums with them at dingy clubs and blues joints in and around Troy. After high school, Joe and Kenny moved to New York City, then Woodstock, in the hopes finding the right bass player and establishing a Rock and Roll band. The pair had spent hundreds of smoky hours hypnotized by the magic of Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Blind Faith, Led Zeppelin - the music that was made for young souls to discover and devour. Their travels left them unsatisfied and Hohman and Daley returned home, where on a Monday night blues jam, they unexpectedly met bassist Lori Friday. Friday had been on a musical journey that paralleled her new friends' - she lived on the heavy rock and soul sounds of her heroes and was searching for her musical match. After an initial brush-off by Hohman, a mutual friend convinced the boys to get together with Friday and just play for awhile. The three made a date to jam in a Troy warehouse, and after 45 minutes, Super 400 was born. They didn't need to speak of it - they were already a band from the first note. The three friends immediately began long jam sessions that lasted for days, searching for and cultivating a sound and feel that would develop into a breathing entity that was e
