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BEST LIVE BAND!! 2006 WINNER PITCH MAGAZINE BEST OF KANSAS CITY It was 2001 when The V8s gave premature birth to their demo (turned overnight spectacle with umbilical cord intact and dragging in an oily wake) "It's On!" on the Shock Factory Rockstar Manufacturing Machine. Man, how time flies when you're groping and bleeding on innocent spectators. After multiple lineup changes and debates over the word "The", they are back stronger than even I could imagine. Ryjo Mattes, Kriss Ward, J.Z., and latest addition Chico Thunder are killing it. From Pitch Magazine's Best of Kansas City 2006 Arts & Entertainment: Best Live Band "Time was, just about every car that rolled out of Detroit packed a V8 engine, the monster that drove families to church and propelled teenagers recklessly down back roads after dark. Now, big engines are the albatross around America's gas-guzzling neck, and workaday speed demons are lucky to have a V6 under their sensible hoods. So it's not the Dodge hemi that comes to mind when the Last of the V8s plays but rather a steel-bodied, four-door GM battle cruiser, trashed on the inside, rusty along the bottom, its crackly stereo blasting "I Wanna Be Your Dog." At every live show, band builds an altar to rock, with high priest-cum-lead singer Ryan Mattes sacrificing himself in a frenzy of growls, sweat, stage dives and self-inflicted bloody gashes. Meanwhile, bassist Chico Thunder and guitarist Jay Zastoupil mount roaring assaults; at least once every show, Zasto
