Nineteen88

A supersonic 80's journey that will rock your face off. Think AC/DC meets Wrestling and NASCAR in a Smash Pile-Up of Hard Rock Thunder. All the rock swagger you can handle. This is butt kicking LOUD fun. For those about to rock...This record salutes you Biography After releasing thier acclaimed debut "The Great American Rock And Roll Spectacle" in 2004. Nineteen88 have returned to Nashville and are recording the follow up release in 2011.

Biography



After releasing thier acclaimed debut "The Great American Rock And Roll Spectacle" in 2004. Nineteen88 have returned to Nashville and are recording the follow up release in 2011. Waiting seven years to release a sophomore record in an industry that has a notoriously short attention span may seem like a big gamble for most bands. Nineteen88 on the other hand are not worried about it one bit. "I think it's because I just decided to do things my way" states Handsome Mick Rowe, Lead vocalist/Guitarist for the retro supergroup. "I'm playin music because I want to make music, but not make music on industry terms or standards.

Nineteen88 exploded on stage for the first time in a "small dumpy club buried in Evansville, Indiana called The Duck Inn". The bands debut stage show impressed former VP of A&R with EMI's ForeFront Records label David Bach, that he asked the band to meet in Nashville three days later. Dave was now A&R of a new startup label based out of Nashville, TN being financed by the Westin Hotel Group called "Selectric Records". Selectric was headed up by John and Dino Elefante ( Both Grammy winners and owners of the famous Sound Kitchen studios in Franklin, TN. John was also the vocalist for Kansas) after a quick meeting contracts were signed, the cd was made and the band was on a tour!

While the band was on that tour and the debut cd was hitting the shelves, Mick ask John to be released from the new Selectric Records Label. Knowing he would lose all the investment capitol from the Westin Hotel Group, Mick still felt he had to venture on his own with the band and it's debut release.

After both parties agreed to the seperation, a Non-Disclosure Agreement was signed by all and Mick was free to take back control of the band.

Nineteen88 went back to playing clubs in Nashville and hitting summer festivals gaining a huge amount of local success and a worldwide fanbase including members of Charlie Daniels Band, Alice Cooper, 3 Doors Down, Molly Hatchet and Shooter Jennings.

During this time, Mick was also writing for Getty Images and getting continuous work with MTV, VH1, Food Network, ABC, Universal Orlando, as well as many great shows like "Dog The Bounty Hunter" that had used several tracks from Mick's repertoire and decided to write for television and stay off the road after a final show with Switchfoot in 2005.

"After looking back, it was a bad decision" says the six foot five rocker, Retail giant "Wal Mart" had taken on several thousand copies of the release for their Southern stores and sold out, but couldn't restock the sellout as the band had went on hiatus and stopped production of the release.

Handsome Mick & the boys are back recording the new release and about to begin promoting a new single from the debut CD. "USA" is a track that was written just after 9/11/2001 and is a letter from a soldier to his wife and a moment of loss in a military family. "it just seemed like the right time to return and share a look into the loss our country has to endure to be free."