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Alan Fox Band
"These Guys Really Know Their Stuff, and
Alan Fox Band Breaks Out!
Donnie Pendleton performs at the Avalon Theater in Hollywood.
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 4:45 am
A band that once rocked Longview is poised to take its next step after earning two
That would be guitarist Donnie Pendleton, now based in Fort Worth, but who lived in
The group, which formed in Longview with remnants of local powerhouses such as U.S. Lords,
It’s a far cry from the garages that gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll dreams for Fox, Pendleton,
The Fort Worth native, who moved home from Longview to be near his mother, Susi McDaniel,
On Nov. 14, though, Pendleton, Fox and the rest found themselves giving multiple red carpet
“We’re the kind of band that doesn’t have gimmicks,” Pendleton said. “We just play music.
And, with collective decades of studio, stage and touring experience, they’re tight.
The single is available for download from CD Baby, ITunes, Rhapsody and at alanfoxband.com.
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CNN
By Wehopostpr/Posted November 20, 2013/Hollywood, California
November 14, 2013 (Hollywood, CA)
“The Hollywood F.A.M.E. Awards presentations are a celebration of Film, Art,
Among the Hollywood F.A.M.E. Awards recipients this year were Director/Producer
Simultaneous with the Hollywood F.A.M.E. Awards presentations were the Los Angeles
Other attendees at the event included recording artists Trevor Page, BP Major,
The Los Angeles Music Awards and Hollywood F.A.M.E. Awards are executively produced
For more on the Los Angeles Music Awards visit: www.lamusicawards.net
Photo (Left To Right): Meli Alexander, Actor Bill Blair
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I have seen in 23 years. Flawless is an understatement!",
Al Bowman Founder / Executive Producer
LA Music Awards / Hollywood F.A.M.E. Awards
and Phoenix Music Awards .
I am proud to be a Sponsor for the Alan Fox Band. We are
All Looking forward to having these guys out in
LA. in September. Yes! The show is already SOLD OUT!"
Alan Petsche, Aaron Ave Records. -July 2013-
What a Pleasure to Work With, AFB ROCKS!"
Alan Davis - Engineer at
"The Cove Studio"
"Hard Rock Band of the Year 2013"
By Glenn Evans gevans@news-journal.com
awards in Hollywood for its twin-guitar power sound.
“We’re so very, very excited. Better things just keep coming,” Alan Fox, founder of
The Alan Fox Band, said after returning home to Carthage from the Los Angeles Music Awards
where the five-man combo was named Hard Rock Band of the Year. “I would have been happy
with just Donnie getting Guitarist of the Year.”
downtown Longview while the band played successive AlleyFests.
has continued to evolve since moving its base of operations to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
A brief flirtation with singer Bubba Keith of Point Blank fame has ended, but the original
lineup largely remains intact as the group plays regular gigs at Mambo’s Tapas Cantina in
downtown Cowtown.
bassist Greg Cagle, drummer Terry Salyer and vocalist Donny Hart, formerly of Arlington-based Pantera.
“Most people give up. It’s hard,” Pendleton, 52, said of staying focused on a longshot musical
career while, in his case, working as a mechanic and raising a family with the girlfriend he
married at age 18, Vicki McBride Pendleton.
still calls the guitar his drug of choice.
“I don’t believe that if I wasn’t out playing professionally that I would be happy,”
Pendleton said. “If I tried to settle down, and be like everybody else and get a
job and do the whole retirement thing and build a 401k, that I would have this joy in my life.
I toured back in the hair band days and suffered through all of that. I wasn’t making any money,
my wife staying home with the children while I was touring. I got kind of disgruntled with
the whole music scene. It was never going to be like I expected.”
interviews and later performing on the same Hollywood stage that once welcomed The Beatles.
“Standing on the stage at the at the Avalon Theater, if you had told me six months ago that
was going to happen, I’d have told you you were crazy,” Pendleton said. “I kept crying — absolutely,
I always will. You don’t have to worry about me changing my mind. I’m always going to play.”
Fox recalled paying dues in the Longview area before the band relocated.
“A few years back, we really had oversaturated ourselves in the Longview area,” he said.
“We were playing three and four nights a week at one time, and hosting jams at Mom’s (Biker Bar).
But, we stopped all of that and stayed true to our roots and booking rallies and festivals.”
The band’s roots are in power rock, driven by dual lead guitars and NO slick synthesizers or
detours into ‘what’s new.’
We have harmony and melodies and harmony guitar, and we’re freaking loud.”
The band’s latest single, ‘Never Learn,’ is part of four-song package of original songs
the band laid down at Code Studio in Arlington.
“We’re working on a full-length album for the label, Aaron Avenue Records,” Pendleton said,
referring to the outfit that sponsored the band in Los Angeles.
Fox said the band will soon meet with the label to discuss their mutual futures.
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A Celebrity Fest At 23rd Annual Los Angeles Music Awards
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The historic Avalon Theater on Hollywood and Vine was the scene of intense excitement
this past week for the 23rd Annual Los Angeles Music Awards and 7th Annual Hollywood
F.A.M.E. Awards. Members of the music, television, and movie industries attended
the event, which was broadcasted by MeTV and hosted by actor Robert Burton and
former Miss Arkansas U.S.A. Tamara Henry. Among the live performances were
Lannie Flowers, The Alan Fox Band
, MK Ultra, Stevie Hawkins, Giuseppina Torre,
Mahkenna, Calico The Band, and White House pianist David Osborne. Following the
red carpet, gourmet dinner, and awards show, guests were treated to after
parties at the elegant Bardot and Redbury.
Music and Entertainment, a creative license to recognize a variety of personalities
from every genre of the entertainment industry,” stated Executive Producers
Al Bowman and Susan Griffie in their program to event guests. “Hollywood
F.A.M.E. Award winners enable us to bring a much larger mass media audience
for our award show events.”
Cass Warner (‘The Brothers Warner’), actors Nathin Butler (‘General Hospital’)
and Bill Blair (‘ARGO’), media sensation and actor Ron Jeremy Hyatt (‘Ronin’),
actresses Leilani Sarelle (‘Basic Instinct’) and Meilani Paul (‘The Butterfly Effect’),
Grammy nominated percussionist Victor Orlando (‘The Gap Band’), music industry
executive Steve Resnik and legendary game show host and creator Wink Martindale
(‘Tic-Tac-Dough’).
Music Awards. This year’s LAMA distributed 40 awards to independent artists and
bands that were voted on by fans and the LAMA music industry panel on September 26th
at the Whisky A Go-Go in Hollywood as part of the Los Angeles Music Awards annual
voting event. Among some of the notable winners this past week were Dezmond Meeks
(“Best Male Pop Artist), Lora McHough (“Best Dance/Electronic Artist”;
“Dance/Electronic Single of the Year”), and Black Raven (“2013 Instrumental
Artist of the Year”). The evening also presented an additional 10 “Producers
Choice Awards” to various recipients from the independent music community,
which included among others Douglas Cameron (National Crooner of the Year),
Brett Hunt (Breakthrough Rap Performer), St. Madness (Metal Album of the Year),
Olga Korbut (Career Achievement in Visual Arts), Lannie Flowers (Breakthrough Video),
and David Longoria (Career Achievement Instrumentalist). David Osborne, the
pianist to the presidents who has sold over 5 million albums was honored with
a "Special Achievement Award".
and Feva Mode, movie producer Jon Woodward, Executive Producer of Artists in
Music Awards Mikey Jayy, recording artist Tom Slack (who is also up for nine
Grammy Nomination Considerations this year), movie producer Ray Michaels Quiroga,
publicist Denise O’Brian, and the Honorary Mayor of Beverly Hills
David Harrison Levi.
by industry experts Al Bowman and Susana Griffie. The LAMA has been in existence for
23 years, hosting its first event in 1991, and has been held at various venues around
Hollywood including Paramount Studios, the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom,
the House of Blues, and Fonda Theater. Among the sponsors of this year’s event
were MCF Energy, Face of the USA, ShhhMedia, Aaron Avenue RecordsAlan Fox Band
, CARVIN, Impact
Promotions, Visionary Music, The Redbury, Spyder Pop Records, Soundcheck International,
Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa, JDM Rubbings.com and RainboRecords.com.
(Hollywood F.A.M.E. Award winner for "Lifetime Achievement Character Actor";
Guinness Book of World Records), West Hollywood Entertainment Advocate
John Carvalho, and Publicist Favi Jaime.