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Personal Information
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First Name
Hot
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Last Name
Robots
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Birthdate
July 23, 1966
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Location:
Denver, CO.
Personal Details
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Bio
The POWER of The Who! The PASSION of The Clash! The SPIRIT of Guided By Voices! All parts of the machine that is HOT ROBOTS! With hearts on their sleeves, HOT ROBOTS play LOUD, melodic, ROCK and imbue their songs with defiant energy. Hot Robots music, like jeans & a t-shirt, is never out of style.
Inspired by their mutual admiration for The Who, Guided By Voices, Cheap Trick, The Clash, Big Star, The Replacements, and Teenage Fanclub among others, vocalist/guitarist Jimmy Image (James Leo) and guitarist/vocalist Eric Loud (Eric Lowe) formed Hot Robots in November 2007.
A conversation over drinks about Sci-Fi cult films, THX-1138, Bladerunner, and Cherry 2000 provided the name for the band, as well as its purpose. With Pop Art in mind, their logo would feature a bar code (a likely state provided tattoo). And if the world would act as robots, then their music would be the music of defiance, in other words, heart-on-your-sleeve rock & roll. The world, they believe, needs three-minute songs with loud guitars. Plugging in for the unplugged, so to speak. This would also offer proof that drinking encourages abstract thought.
Veterans of the Denver music scene and friends and neighbors for many years, Leo and Lowe made their Denver debut as Hot Robots in January 2008. A year later, the group self-released an album, Built To Tilt, to positive local reviews. However, after enduring a number of line-up changes since the band’s inception, Leo and Lowe would refocus and regroup in 2010 adding Paul Childs (guitar), drummer Danimal (Dan Gilbertson), and bassist Max Summer (Matt Sumner) essentially rebooting and starting over.
This restart would in turn yield, All Alone Together, an album whose songs were recorded by the band in their rehearsal space, and are essentially about being a Hot Robot.
In tribute of the finest traditions of Rock, Hot Robots combine the rough & tumble energy of Garage, the melodies and hooks of Power Pop, and the defiance & rebellion of Punk to deliver impassioned songs from the working class. Hot Robots aren’t reinventing the wheel… Hot Robots are putting the wheel to work. Weren’t the guitar, bass, and drums invented for this very reason? – Chazz Obbligato, 2012
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Favorite Music
Hot Robots listen to ..Guided By Voices, The Who, The Clash, The Beatles, Teenage Fanclub, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Kinks, Big Star, Cheap Trick, The Replacements, The Jam, The Lemonheads, Pavement, The Buzzcocks, The Pixies, Urge Overkill, The Smithereens, Agent Orange, Apples In Stereo, Black Flag, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blur, The Breeders, Brendan Benson, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Buffalo Tom, Cage the Elephant, The Cars, Catherine Wheel, The Chesterfield Kings, The Church, The Creation, The Damned, D Generation, Descendents, Dinosaur Jr, Dream Syndicate, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Flamin' Groovies, Heatmiser, The Hives, The Hold Steady, The House of Love, Hüsker Dü, Jay Reatard, Kiss, The Libertines, Lilys, Matthew Sweet, MC5, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, The Modern Lovers, The Mooney Suzuki, Motörhead, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, New York Dolls, Nirvana, No Age, Oasis, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pastels, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Pernice Brothers, The Plimsouls, The Ponys, The Posies, The Pretenders, Queens of the Stone Age, The Ramones, Rain Parade, Redd Kross, Ride, Rocket from the Crypt, The Rolling Stones, The Saints, Screaming Trees, Sebadoh, Sex Pistols, Sloan, The Soft Boys, Sparklehorse, Starling Electric, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stone Roses, The Stooges, The Strokes, Sugar, Swervedriver, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Telekinesis, Television Personalities, The Thermals, Tom Petty &; the Heartbreakers, The Troggs, The Vapors, The Vaselines, The Velvet Underground, The Vibrators, The Von Bondies, The Warlocks, The Wedding Present, X, XTC, The Yardbirds, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies, The Count Five, and Mr. Neil Diamond!
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Favorite Movies
THX-1138, Mad Max, Bladerunner, anything with Michael Caine.
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Other Hobbies/Interests
Whiskey
