HIT N RUN (Band Members)
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Name:
Mark
Valentino
Accomplishments:
Voted
Top Male Vocalist 17 times, including 9X winner Top Male
Vocalist in the Buffalo Music Awards. 3X Winner Top Male
Vocalist for The Peoples Choice Awards. 3X winner for
the Art Voice magazine, NightLife winner, & more for
Top Male Vocalist. Mark was flown by promoters to NYC
to sing on Broadway, in Times Square with members of American
Idol
and was recently inducted into the Hall of Achivements.
Former
Bands: Hit N Run, American
Brass, One Night Stand, Wunderland and Gator. Oh and Hit
N Run.
Influences
(bands): Steve Perry and Journey, Boston,
Triumph, Poison, Chicago, Goo Goo Dolls, Styx, REO, Rush and Bon Jovi
Likes:
Our friends of Hit n
Run who are part of our family. Turkey, Cheeseburgers
and Italian Food. Great Legs and Boobies! Puppy Dog eyes.
Honest and sincere people. People who have stuck beside
me to provide support through the best and worst of times.
Family, and people who treat you like family.
Dislikes:
People
who think the world owes them everything. People who are
able to work but yet steal your hard earned tax dollars.
Lazy people who lack ambition to be better role models
for their kids. Liars, phony people and users. People
who blind copy.
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Name:
Guy Nichols
Instrument:
Bass Guitar and Vocals
Accomplishments:
Multiple
time Top Rock Bassist in the Buffalo Music Awards. Guy
was offered a spot performing with National Touring group,
Trans Siberien Orchestra.
Inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame for Top Bass
player and was also inducted into the Hall of Fame for
the group, The Trolls.
Former
Bands: The Trolls, Winger
(Bass Tech for Kip Winger), Release, Rockamania, and the
Jimmie Van Zant (of Lynard Skynard fame) band.
Influences
(bands): AC/DC, Bad Company,
Foghat and anything that ROCKS!
Likes:
Family, friends, fishing, water skiing, cooking, Sunday
afternoons, and SLEEPING.
Dislikes:
People that give you the run-around, telemarketers, and
LAST CALL AT THE BAR!
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Name:
Pat Annunziata
Instruments:
Organ, piano, synthesizers and Vocals
Accomplishments:
4X
Time winner for Top Rock Keyboard player between the BMA's,
NightLife and Peoples Choice awards.
Former
Bands: Hit n Run,
Image ,
Influences
(bands): Yes, Kansas,
Supertramp, Genisis, Rick Wakeman, Gentle Giant.,
Gentle Giant
Likes:
Chinese food, Boobies, small portions of food at restaurants
and professional wrestling.
Dislikes:
Rap music, small boobies, overplaying...double kick pedals
in every song and Drama. Airing dirty laundry for the
whole world to see.
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Name:
Kelly Wahl – Vocals, percussion and Vibraslap
Former
Bands: Big Dangerous World, Splitimage
Accomplishments:
Top
Female Vocalist 2X in the Art Voice Awards and one time
in the BMA's.
Influences:
Heart, Pat Benatar, Melissa Etheridge, Janis Joplin, Journey, Bon Jovi,
Rush, Def Leppard
Likes:
family & friends, honesty, loyalty, Cinco, Greek food,
great butts and soft lips, not
boobies!! Kickboxing, a sense of humor, playing with incredibly
talented people that know how to have fun, BAC with friends
and hanging with TP security…you girls Rock!!
Dislikes: Liars, people
who are two-faced and people who just can’t seem to grow
up and move on! Adults who act like children and think
they can tell others who they can be friends with and
who they can see. People who remove friends on FB for
seeing me!
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Name:
Joe Suplicki
Former Bands: McCarthyzm,
Burn, Suckerpunch and Black Widow.
Accomplishments:
2X
Top Hard Rock Drummer - Buffalo Music Awards, Peoples
Choice for Top Rock Drummer, inducted into the Buffalo
Music Hall of Fame as a member of McCarthyzm.
Influences: So many
to list it is not funny. More about the music.
Likes: April, video
games, excercise, fitness, having money, cruisin' in
my vette.
Dislikes: Snow, not having enough free time
and people that constantly bitch
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Name:
Dan Kaplin - Guitar, Vocals.
Former
Bands: Metalworks, Black Widow, Slo Burn, Wildchild,
Snakebite.
Accomplishments:
4X
Top rock guitarist BMA's, Nominated top rock bassist for
BMA's.
Influences: Rik Emmett,
Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, John Sykes,
SRV, Robben Ford, Jean- Luc Ponty.
Likes: Spring and
Fall in WNY, Half shirts, Surf and Turf, People with a
warped sense of humor and who can laugh at themselves,
Monty Python, Rennies! Playing with Talented musicians
who are also great people.
Dislikes:
Selfish and two-faced people,
scraping the ice off the car in the morning. People who
don't use turn signals.
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