TrailerKings are the best in American Garage Rock. Playing covers from AC/DC to Warren Zevon, with originals like “Another Day”. Trailer Kings started as the Troye Shanks band, then officially changed their name in January 2008.
Trailer Kings play a lot of great songs, but have always relied on the crowd to give them the set list. The three part harmony that the Trailer Kings pull out on songs like “Good Things”, “Seven Bridges Road” and many others, really show the depth of this group.
Troye Shanks
acoustic & electric guitars, harmonicas, vocals
Troye has played well over a thousand gigs in his 20+ years as a frontman/guitarist. He was also the founding member of several successful groups including, "LIVE WIRE" "Gary & the Gators" " The Jessi Lynn Band" He has left the corporate office for good and continues to play music full-time as a solo artist, a duo partner and frontman for "Trailer Kings".
Troye uses
- Taylor guitars
- Fender guitars
- EMG pickups
- Mesa Lonestar amps
- Ray-Ban
- Dr. Schols
- Jameson's
Tim Bredemus
acoustic & electric bass guitars, vocals
Tim has also had a very successful career in music. His most notable group was the Madison group "Kicks" They played throughout the entire midwest during the late 70's and 80's. There would be more to write here about that time but no one seems to remember much. He is the only person in the band to have been removed from an Air Force base for singing the song "Free Bird" and the only person in the band to be escorted to the state line for playing too loud in the town of Hurley WI.
Tim uses
- Ibanez guitars
- Electro-Voice speakers
- Cabo Wabo tequila
Jeffrey Powers
drums, percussion, vocals
Jeffrey is not only a drummer, vocalist, songwriter, secret agent and producer but is also web master for several sites. Among them are, WIbands.com & Geekazine.com. He won a MAMA Award in 2009 for producing the remix of Art Paul Schlosser's "Have a Peanut Butter Sandwich"
Jeffrey uses
- sticks
- stones
- broken bones
- peanut butter sandwich
- Waboritas
Dave Martin
lead guitars
Dave is a veteren of many hard rocking bands since he and Troye met in high school. Most recently he was the guitarist for very successful band "Jostle" and "Section 8" but is now a full time King.
Dave uses,
-Gibson Les Paul guitars
- Marshall Amps
- Splawn Amps
- Jagermeister
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