The Rebel Pride Band: NEWS

REBEL PRIDE IS CURRENTLY RECORDING  A NEW CD AT PANDA  STUDIOS(Clearwater, Florida). THE RELEASE DATE IS TBA. 

 

        Straightforward country in one glimpse, deep-fried southern rock in another, and floating on the line of alternative at certain points, Pat Buffo sings lead vocals for “ Rebel Pride”, a Tampa-based, 5-man tribute to the simple philosophy of “just turn it up and rock.

  “All Points In Between” really goes in a lot of different directions. “Girls Wanna Dance”, the first track on the cd sounds very country, but the very next track almost has a 3 Doors Down kind of feel to it that dips into an alternative feel.

“Touch Our Souls” has an absolutely screaming guitar that has a touch of blues, topped with some Slash and finished with a near infectious drumbeat throughout.

  Overall, this album really covers a lot of ground. The name makes you expect a very narrowed sound, but it’s apparent everywhere on this 10-song effort that you’re getting a lot more than just good ol’ boys; you’re getting some diversity. Ed Woltil and Chuck Majewski do a great job with album art, too.

By Xander Rich
www.orlandobands.com

http://www.rebelprideband.com
 

            It was a cold evening in Brooksville,Fl. @ Journey fest 2010. That did'nt stop "THE REBEL PRIDE BOYZ". The band performed a  powerful 45min set of high energy original music. The crowd rushed to the front of the stage and roared on after each and every song. The adrenaline level was spectacular. You need to check these guys out they are "SMOKIN" hot.

Rebel Pride would like to welcome new member keyboardist Bob Howes.

"welcome aboard Bob"

 

Micheal Buffalo Smith gives a great review of new Rebel Pride Band's release All Points In Between. Read the entire review in our review section.

In the review Michael Buffalo Smith compares the Rebel Pride Band to early Molly Hatchet and The Outlaws.

PRESS RELEASE
June 1, 2009


REBEL PRIDE band from Largo, Florida receives award from Seminole Relay for Life Foundation for donating their time to several local benefits. Big Dave Stevenson accepted the award from Candy Bowes, the President of Seminole Relay for Life at a recent benefit show at Grass Flats in Clearwater, Fl.

Recently, the band has gone through some changes. Now joining long time members Brian Jeffries, Big Dave Stevenson and Pat Buffo are guitarist Dwayne Shores and drummer Pete Gratta. The sound and the attitude are still the same, kick ass southern rock. Do yourself a favor, visit www.rebelprideband.com for their schedule and catch a show soon; see you there.

Join us on Friday February 27th 2009 at Grassflats one block South of Ulmerton Rd. on 49th St.N. at 8PM for the All Points IN Between CD Release Party.

Get them while their hot!! Put your order in at CDbaby.com or just come on out to a show and pick your copy.

Rebel Pride will be the opening act for the Marshall Tucker Band on January 7th 2009 at The Largo Cultural Center. The band will perform a 45 minute set of all original music acoustically. Material from the CD's It Is What It Is, Backin' It Up, and the soon to be relaeased All Points in Between, will be featured. Show starts at 8PM and tickets are available from the LCC box office.

Rebel Pride will appear on the hit TV show My Biggest Redneck Wedding Ever on the CMT network August 30 at 8 PM, then again at 11 PM, also 2 PM Sunday August 31. More listings are available on the CMT website www.cmt.com. Hear song clips from the new Rebel Pride CD "All Points Near and Far" and witness some crazy redneck games like the worlds biggest beer slide.

The band would like to express their sincere gratitude for Troy Montgomery's tireless work putting this whole show together. Montgomery Guns Productions, our hat is off to you. Thank you, Rebel Pride Band

O.K. fans, that's right, Rebel Pride has been picked to do a episode of MY BIGGEST REDNECK WEDDING EVER with guest host Tom Arnold. Filming begins on Aug 1st and Aug 2nd in Inglis, Fl at the Horse Hole Mud pit. Check local listings or CMT for show times.

In the same issue the band gets honorable mention in all catagories plus the Number Two CD of 2007. According to the magazine's readers poll.

The Rebel Pride Band would like to express our deepest sorrow over the loss of one of the greatest musicians that ever lived… Hughie Thomasson. We offer our sympathy’s to Mary Thomasson and the Thomasson family. This is a serious blow to our music community. Hughie was one of the few world-renowned rock stars to come from the Tampa Bay area. We have admired Hughie’s work for decades and recently got to know him better. I had talked with Hughie a few times last year about producing a CD for us. Our financial situation did not allow that to happen. I deeply regret not having such a great man to be a part of our recording process. Now we will never know what he would have brought to the RPB table. Last year Rebel Pride enjoyed seeing and meeting The Outlaws on their 30th year reunion tour here in Florida. Our manager Troy was a personal long time friend of Hughie’s. Thanks to that friendship, I have a memory that I will always cherish forever. I will never forget for as long as I live the time I got to sit at Troy’s kitchen table playing guitar and talking shop with Hughie Thomasson. Huey was a big influence on my playing style and the members of Rebel Pride and he will be sorely missed. Heaven has done called another six-string slinger back home. God Bless Hughie Thomasson! --Tom

Hear the Rebel Pride song Stomp Yer Foots on the Stimulus Films release Grilling Bobby Hicks. You can see and hear the song being used on the movie's trailer. There is a link to it on our Myspace page (direct link to RP myspace on link page)www.myspace.com/rebelprideband This trailer was shown nation wide on the Fox TV show The Lot.
Also available for viewing on the Grilling Bobby Hicks Myspace site. It looks like it's going to be a killer flick (no pun intended) and we are proud to be a part of it.

CMH Records will release Rebel Pride's third album in as many years on June 5th. The album is titled... "A Southern Rock Tribute to Toby Keith performed by Rebel Pride". CMH plans to make it available in record stores across North America and Europe. Look for it in the Toby Keith bin at your local Wal Mart. If you don't see it there please ask them to order it for you. It will also be available through the label's website www.cmhrecords.com

The Rebel Pride Band released its second CD today entitled Backin' It Up. Eight fresh new tracks of pure Southern music are now available for order through this website. Just email Tom at tspittL1@tampabay.rr.com and place an order. You can pay with Paypal (account address is the same as the email address given above, also direct link on the booking page) or send check or money order to...
Rebel Pride Band
PO BOX 1226
Largo, Fl. 33779-1226

You can now hear the new Rebel Pride CD Backin' It Up
exclusively on Allsouthernrock.com
www.allsouthernrock.com Request it in the shout box and ask the DJ to play the CD in it's entirety on Saturdays.

Rebel Pride is a Sonicbid featured artist in the November issue of Relix Magazine. Look for Tenacious D on the cover. This jam band mag has a subscription base of 300,000 readers. Pick up a copy today at your local news stand. Also at Barnes and Noble or Borders Books and Music.

Gritz has chosen the Rebel Pride song Stomp Yer Foots as the opening cut for thier new CD, Home Grown and Hand Picked. It is available from thier site Gritz.net and can be purchased from the online store there along with albumn that song comes from - It Is What It Is.

PROUD SOUTHERN REBELS
The Southern Rocking Rebel Pride

by Michael Buffalo Smith
July 2006



One of the hottest new Southern Rock bands on the scene today is Rebel Pride, hailing from the Tampa, Florida area. We checked in with the guys to ask about their new CD, touring and the road.

Tell us how, where and when Rebel Pride was formed.
Tom: Rebel Pride was first formed by three guys from Seminole, Fl. in 1995. Those three are no longer a part of the present lineup. The original three went their own way and the rest of us just kept plowing ahead under the same name. In the beginning, a karaoke singer was told by a radio DJ to put together a band and try his hand at the country market. First Brian, then Tom, then Dave were brought on board to make that happen. We did a lot of shows in the early days and were opening for well-known country acts throughout Florida. Then that same karaoke singer got a big head and ran off with all our pay from a ten-night engagement at Disney World. We have a pending lawsuit addressing that four-year-old theft and abandonment issue. We went through a few member changes after that before we got the present team together. For the last two years, we have jelled as a unit and really enjoy making music together.

Who are the band members and what do they play?
Rebel Pride is:
Pat Buffo – Lead Vocal, Guitar, Drums, Percussion
Bobby Howes-Keyboards,Vocals
Brian Jeffries – Guitars, Vocals
Dave Stevenson – Bass, Vocals
Francis “Sonny” Harlan – Drums

Who are your biggest musical influences ?
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet, The Outlaws, Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Stevie Ray Vaughn, ZZ Top, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, The Kings (BB, Albert and Freddie) The British Invasion, Motown, Stax, Chess, Capricorn, Blue Note, Jazz, Country, Bluegrass, heck anything southern.

In the politically correct society we inhabit thesedays, have you encountered any problems with the “Rebel”moniker? Your thoughts on that.
Brian: Yes. Mostly white collar corporate America. Here are some thoughts on that… If you look up rebel in the dictionary, it is defined as one who defies authority. I believe there is a little rebel in all of us. Always question authority. Our founding fathers in this great country were considered rebels. Jesus was considered a rebel. So were Gandhi and Martin Luther King. So back to rock and roll. If you listen to our music it’s all about a good time with some jamming’ on the backbeat. I think there are too many labels in society and America has a guilt complex about its past. The name of this band, Rebel Pride, has nothing to do with hate or racism. The world has too many politically correct people that do not want to offend anyone but its okay to knock a band. It’s only Rock and Roll so sit back and enjoy, crank it up, and forget the hang-ups. Keep it positive.

Tom: Our band name is mild compared to some we have seen.

Pat: Unfortunately, yes we have had some raised eyebrows over the name. To me the name says Southern Rock.

Tell us about your latest CD.
Tom: Our most recent CD “It Is What It Is” was recorded in May of 2005 and released in October of 2005. A world-class engineer Steve Connelly recorded it in two nights live in Zen Studios. It does have a couple overdubs, but really captures a raw, live style performance much like our live show, without the crowd noise. It’s packed with eight all original tunes (a couple in the ten-minute range) and we feel it kicks serious Southern ass. We are exited about ya’ll choosing "Stomp Yer Foots" as the opening cut of your new release Home Grown and Hand Picked. It’s also the opening cut on our CD

It Is What It Is, and for good reason’ it just plain rocks. That and the majority of our tunes are usually Brian’s guitar lick ideas and Pats lyrics with the rest of the band helping with some arrangements. "Gititon" is word play for Get It On and it shows our lyricist Pat just having fun. With a lyrical gem like “slipping’ on the floor like a chicken wing” you can tell its all in good fun. "Tampa Bay Worksong" was written and sung by our guitarist Brian with Pat on drums. "Slippin’ Away" is a popular tune that starts out bluesy then goes into a Santana-like Latin feel for the vamp then returns for a blistering blues finish. "Drop the Ball" is a tribute to SRV written by Tommy with lyrics by Pat. It is about a guy and girl meeting in a bar with hopes that when the guy puts the ball in the girls’ court, she doesn’t drop it. "The Hard Way" was written by our drummer Sonny and tells about striking out on your own and leaving the old lady behind. "Survive" was a full band arrangement with a great lyric by Pat that tells the story of the Florida Panther’s depleting habitat and the over development going on in our home state. A European magazine called it the new "Green Grass/ Freebird." It’s a great set closer and CD closer too.

What has been the highlight of your career thus far?
Tom: Going from cover band to a more original show has been a highlight along with playing with this lineup for the last two years. In the past we had some great moments like being the backup band for Charlie Daniels, and Montgomery Gentry at the annual Angelus concert here in Clearwater. That was 2000 and one of the best musical weekends I ever had. A few more highlights would be playing Clemson, S.C. on the George Strait tour, and a lot of the shows we did at Disney World were cool. Appealing to a worldwide audience has been very exciting too.

If you could jam with anyone, living or dead, who would it be and why?
Tom : Stevie Ray Vaughn or Jimi Hendrix

Brian: Duane Allman, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughn

Pat: Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Molly Hatchet

Your thoughts on the state of SOUTHERN ROCK?
The state of Florida is a great state. Opps sorry I forgot Florida isn’t THE Southern Rock state it’s just one of them.

Tom: Southern Rock is alive and well and has never left the radar screen despite the will of record companies and such. Proof is in its presence on last years Grammy’s and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions plus a strong fan base in Europe and up north. It certainly has captured the favor of a worldwide audience. Southern Rock and Roll is here to stay,

Any interesting Rebel Pride stories you want to share?
Brian: Is this an adult only magazine? If not we cannot answer that question.

Tom: We have some stories but we want to keep this interview clean. Come and help us develop some new Rebel Pride stories.

What’s next?
We are going back into Zen Studios to record our next CD of all original tunes this week. We think we have a great follow up to the last CD and hopes of doing as well if not better than ”It Is What It Is.” The working title is Backing It Up. We hope to release it at Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach October 18-21. Plus, we are playing out every week so catch us live at a venue here on the West Coast of the Sunshine State or wherever we wind-up. Check our calendar at www.rebelprideband.com
See you there! Thanks al ot to all the fans and to Gritz for making us a part of the family.







Copyright 2006 Gritz Publishing

Rebel Pride will open for Leon Russell, April 27th at The State Theater on Central Ave.& 7th St. Petersburg, Fl.-Doors open at 7PM

December Issue of Bands of Dixie Magazine

IN SHORT
==> Bobby Ingram , leader of Molly Hatchet , joined the long list of the artists criticizing chain KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) for ______ of chickens. More than 850 million poultries are raised and killed by KFC, each year.



==> number 47 (November-December) of Bands Of Dixie was dispatched with the subscribers Friday December 9. At the interior, an interview of Henry Paul of Outlaws , another of the new feeling of the hard southern rock'n'roll, Rebel Pride , the first part of a disc with disc devoted to Charlie Daniels , photographs of the reformation of Blank Point and the second part of the article on the guitars. Here what to pass the festivals to the heat!



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