It all began in November 1990 at Pete's Grandma's basement, blasting out cover tunes and snacking on homemade cookies and coffee provided by the rock & roll Grandma herself. After a while, we ended up migrating the practices to Pat's basement in Geary, now Haneytown. Pat's house in Geary, what a riot. Pat's basement was a mountain of stored family gear. Boxes with clothes, bike parts, toys, junk, laundry. It was like the set from Synchronicity II, that Police video.

Dream Kick weren't like many bands. I guess we were a true basement garage band, we never used a P.A. to practice through. I think we were all too cheap to rent anything and lug it around. After we started playing shows, I found the benefit of practicing without a PA was that we were a little tighter, cause we had to compete to hear above each other. I always said, if we sounded good at practice then when we got a PA we would sound even tighter...It was a good theory.

So after some all ages shows at Community Centers and Junior High Schools we broke into playing some 19+ clubs. Most bands of that era were still playing the "Classic Rock" bar room standards, I won't bother to name them since we too played a lot of them as well. We put some more edge on it, we figured if we were going to be stuck playing the classics then we'd be stuck playing them OUR way.

Who says you can't mix the Classics with Heavy Metal?...

Having kick ass musicians gave us the headroom to write originals and slowly integrate them into the sets, seeing how they played over with a crowd. It's funny how it works, a room full of punks will show up for an unknown punk band but if a rock band puts on a show like that, you wouldn't get a person. Soon we started covering some Cult, Faster Pussycat and then when Metallica released the "Black Album", we started playing Enter Sandman probably before Metallica left on their world tour..I think we've played that song more times than Born to Be Wild.

We did take some slack from other musicians in the area when we started this trend because they didn't think patrons or bar owners would put up with that stuff. It was 1990 and things were changing. Dream Kick helped usher in Hard rock and expose a new era of music. We take great pride in that, and we had fun doing it.

We were always energetic, usually sloppy drunk. We ran across tables, ventured outside with our wireless systems and we hope we had you all having the best times you could be having. Dream Kick was a blast, We won the 1992 battle of the bands, headlined fund raisers and opened up for a few well known bands. We jumped off bridges, shit off patio decks, smashed up drum kits and drove tremendously drunk on bikes and canoes. We even managed to fit a lil' sex in there!

Today, we are a little older, put on some weight and still fun to laugh. Half of us are still heavy within the music circuit while the others found different ways of getting the monthly bills paid.