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Need to book a band for your Upstate, Greenville, Spartanburg or Greenwood event? Now’s a great time!

Hot As A Pepper has been busy building up our repertoire and it is coming together nicely! Lots of fun, funky groovin’ and dancing tunes from several genres, including rock, country, pop, funk, disco (yeah, I said disco), and more.

Here’s the current list:

“Rock This Town” – Stray Cats
“Play That Funky Music” – Wild Cherry
“Brick House” – Commodores
“My Kinda Party” – Jason Aldean
“Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin'” – Journey
“Forget You” – Cee Lo Green
“Billie Jean” – Michael Jackson
“Not My Time” – Three Doors Down
“Two Tickets To Paradise” – Eddie Money
“I Want You To Want Me” – Cheap Trick
“Can’t Get Enough of Your Love” – Bad Company
“Life is a Highway” – Rascal Flatts
“Can’t You See” – Marshall Tucker
“Under the Boardwalk” – The Drifters
“Brown Eyed Girl” – Van Morrison
“Angel Eyes” – Jeff Healey
“Bad Mama Jama” – Carl Carlton
“Breakdown” – Tom Petty
“Dock of the Bay” – Otis Redding
“Lights” – Journey
“Some Kinda Wonderful” – Grand Funk Railroad
“Jessie’s Girl” – Rick Springfield
“Shaky Ground” – Delbert McClinton
“All Summer Long”/”Sweet Home Alabama” – Kid Rock/Skynyrd
“Santaria” – Sublime

This list is not intended to be a final product, only a means to get Hot As A Pepper booked as quickly as possible, it will continue to evolve as we work to define ourselves and through the input of our friends, family and supporters!

When are we available for bookings?

NOW!  If you have an event such as a wedding, party, grand opening or other corporate event scheduled after July 9th, and you want fun and professional live entertainment, then give us a call at 864-979-1224 or use the booking info link to send an email.

We’ll travel outside Greenville, Spartanburg and the Upstate if necessary, and let’s not forget about Greenwood and surrounding area, home of our drummer!

Keep it spicy!

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Selection of players continues for the fun & funky Upstate party band, Hot As A Pepper… Drummers and Guitarists are up this week!

The ad on Craigslist keeps bringing new people who are interested in joining up with a fun and funky Upstate band even though it is has been nearly a week since the original posting.

One thing is becoming super clear, there are more drummers than you can shake a stick at! And there are a lot of talented guitarists too, but only a few singers have come forward.

Guitarists who can sing lead are also either involved in other bands, or maybe not seeing the facebook or Craigslist posting.  If you are a guitarist who is a lead vocalist and you are wanting a job, then get with me please.

Talks continue with the next two drummers to check out and three guitarists. These 5 individuals are very interesting as they all have something outstanding about them. Several have played in successful bands, with somewhat similar styles.

IF you have contacted me and for some reason I have never contacted you back – chances are good that I missed your message, please try again. If you contacted me and we spoke but have not spoken again, let me assure you, everyone is getting put into a “database” and I will indeed get back with you at some point. Feel free to reach out to me again if you feel you left something out in our first conversation too.

Find us on facebook at http://facebook.com/HotAsAPepper and click the LIKE button or MESSAGE if you would like to contact us.

John – Still the world’s loneliest bass player in a most fun “band”!

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Exciting news: First potential members of HAAP meeting to “jam”

Response to our post on Craigslist has turned up a number of great people!

First up, I’ll be meeting up with a drummer and guitarist/singer combo to “jam” and see what it sounds like. These two have played together before and know songs that I have done in the past, so that should prove interesting.

Four drummers in all have contacted me, one is out right away due to living in Seneca and not realizing rehearsals would be in Greenville, one is part of the combo above and two are on extreme ends of the spectrum, the first is a 19 year old who sounds very ambitious, and the other is 50-something well seasoned player.  Funny story – the older gent is from Alabama originally, and when we hooked up on facebook, I saw he was friends with another friend of mine, David Cook and had played with him years ago.  Dave has been up North and just recently moved to GA for some music opportunities. Dave is one heck of a keyboard player, and who knows, we could end up getting this drummer (he goes by “String”) and Dave together here in Greenville to see how that goes. Dave comes complete with even more LED DMX lights and sound gear than I have.

I’ve had only 2 guitarists come forward, one who is very money oriented, which will not work, he wants to “plug and play and get paid” and the other comes with the drummer.

A keyboard player who also plays guitar and bass sent an email but it was late tonight, so it will be tomorrow before I can get in touch with them. Would be great if he could sing too!

Singer options are slim at this point. The duo is one, and the only other available vocalist I know of is Chip McDonald (formerly from the defunct Dockside Band I was in), but I am unsure if he is really in for this style of music. Knowing Chip though, he might cover it until a permanent singer could be located. That’s a conversation yet to be had…

I’m meeting with Bennie Waddell tomorrow, but I hear he’s playing with a couple guys already so he’s probably not available and he’s more Queen & Journey. Come to think of it, so is Chip. Hrmmm

So there we have it.  Slow progress, but progress none the less.

If you are reading this and are aware of any other players in the Upstate / Greenville area who would be a good candidate for this party band project, please point them in this direction!

John M. Hoyt – Bassist and sole member of Hot As A Pepper… The loneliest band in the land!