The band:

Mike Trash –guitar, vocals
Johnny Riott – drums
Billy Belaire –bass

Location:

How long as the band been together?:

9 years

Band Website:

http://www.eroticrocknroll.com

Band MySpace Profile:

http://www.myspace.com/theerotics

Do you have your music posted anywhere for fans to sample?  If so, where:

http://music.podshow.com
http://www.myspace.com/theerotics
http://www.cdbaby.com/erotics

iTunes, Rhapsody, BuyMusic, Emusic, the new Napster, AOL’s MusicNet, MusicMatch, and many more to come.

The Erotics - Billy, Mike, John

Band Bio:

We’ll spare you the canned bio…this is what some others have said…(well, the good stuff anyway)

Imagine if Steve Rachelle fronted American Heartbreak and you’ll get an idea of what you can expect from The Erotics ‘All That Glitters Is Dead’.
-Lycan Davis

“….aren’t just fun, demonic blasts of slash-and-burn trousersnake rock n’ roll. They’re also GREAT SONGS.  Each complements the high voltage riff power & thundering backstreet rhythm with a delicious melody that you just won’t be able to get out of your head. This is what it’s all about, kids: pure musical aggression laced with a tuneful appeal that’s impossible to resist. Fun music. Naughty music. Dangerous music. Celebratory, turn-it-up-loud music. Unwholesome music. Music that will annoy pretentious hipsters who don’t know the difference between Hanoi Rocks and Warrant. Music to listen to while you’re driving too fast, getting fucked up, or deflowering the teenage hottie next door.

If you regularly pay good money to see aging Sunset Strip has-beens but haven’t bought a new album since the Reagan era, it’s time for you to get with the program, pal! The Erotics are here and happening and at the top of their game. Perhaps they’ll come to your town soon, and then you’re gonna party like it’s 1989.
---Josh Rutledge, professional bastard

Albany, New Yorks Erotics sound like the wayward lovechild conceived from the collective sperm of Motley Crue and Cheap Trick.
--Sleazegrinder

Reckless, awesome, slutty drunken rock.
—Bill Ketzer

The Erotics - Drink, Fight, Fuck?

Sound best described as:

Rock

Band Influences:

The usual suspects:  Ramones, KISS, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Faster Pussycat, GnR, Russ Meyer movies, lotsa eyeliner, junk in the trunk…

If you could tour with any band, who would you pick?:

Aerosmith ‘76

Ultimate goal as a band?

To get invited to Japan, of course, make a groundbreaking live album that sells 50,000,000 worldwide, buy separate islands and retire into luxurious obscurity with our respective Scandinavian model-servants in tow. 

Best gig:

New Year’s Eve with Sloppy Seconds in Indy…every show we’ve done in Pittsburgh…

Billy Belaire

Worst gig:

There was one on a boat where there was a buffet.  We played great but the chicken wings had been sprinkled with ashes and we got to watch people unsuspectingly eat those wings…with a cremated uncle garnishing.  That one’s probably one to forget. 

Mike Trash

Upcoming Gigs: 

The second European Tour is in the works and all US dates are always posted on the website. 

Final Words:

Forget about the rumors that you’ve heard, Tonight’s gonna end with a four-letter word!

Guys, you’ve heard of the “Fuck, Marry, Kill” game… How about a new one- the Drink, Fight, Fuck game…

Mike- Jose Cuervo, Jose Cuervo, Jose Cuervo
John- Drink: anything caffeinated, Fight: only the weak, Fuck?:  lets go!
Bill- The only one of those I’m any good at is the first one…and I quit that because of my allergy to the booze: I break out in handcuffs. 

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