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Thursday, 03 January 2008 13:33 |
The City of Tucson, Arizona has named DOKKEN/TED NUGENT bassist BARRY SPARKS as it's Citizen Of The Month for January 2008.
Tucson officials herald Sparks in the following manner: "The Barry
Sparks Band offers a unique brand of guitar driven, electric and
acoustic style rock 'n' roll played with an unbelievable amount of
energy and skill - guaranteed to please a wide variety of audiences!
The band's catchy and rhythmic style is played with endless amounts of
soul and an intensity seldom seen anymore. Tucson is proud of Barry
Sparks."
Barry himself responded: "Hello there, well what can I say? When I
was nine years old I wanted to be ACE FREHLEY (from KISS). Ever since
then I have worked my fingers to the bone for the love of music. Music
is my life, without it I am not sure what I would do? I have been
around the biz for quite a few years now and I hope to be rockin' until
the folks at the mental institution have to pry the guitar from my old
fingers and say 'stop it old man! You are really getting on our
nerves!'
I have been very lucky to have been able to tour and record with
some of my biggest heroes such as: SCORPIONS, U.F.O, MICHAEL SCHENKER
GROUP, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, B'Z, ULI JON ROTH to name a few. I currently
play bass in the band Dokken and Ted Nugent. I also have my new band,
The Barry Sparks Band (I am very proud of my boys, they are real swell
fellars). They work real hard and bathe daily as far as I know. Check
out www.barrysparks.com for the complete bio and thank you for stopping by.
Some people I really admire are PAUL McCARTNEY, JOHN LENNON, GEORGE
HARRISON and RINGO STARR, they had a little group called THE BEATLES.
They were pretty good and wrote a couple good songs too! LED ZEPPELIN,
RUSH, YES, THE WHO, JOHN ENTWHISTLE was the greatest rock bassist to
ever to grace this planet r.i.p."
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