bios

Tony Oros is a professional musician living and working in Park City, Utah. Performing several different shows each month, from solo acoustic classic rock to choreography- and-costume production shows. He saves his hard rock creative energies, however, for his friends in EGODOG.
He became the first rock musician to endorse nutritional supplements, presently working with SportsNutrition2000, and has been featured in a recent issue of nationally-distributed Natural Muscle Magazine. He is also a Sponsored Athlete with House of Pain Ironwear.
Due in part to his work for the Dept. of Defense, Tony has recently been selected to be an official Torchbearer for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Games.
He has arranged original compositions for classical string ensemble and jazz big band.

He has performed the National Anthem for the Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) and the Chicago Bears (NFL).
He is currently working on several non-musical writing projects and business endeavors.
Tony says you can e-mail him any time at: orostony@yahoo.com and that his schedule is always on line at www.tonyoros.com

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's possible, it's yours"
- Ayn Rand

Born and raised in the suburbs of Boston and weaned on his Dad's Beatles albums at an early age, Mike could sing every song on the Sgt. Pepper's album by the age six. It was there he acquired a taste for melodic 70's arena rock bands such as Queen and Cheap Trick. After High School, Mike enrolled in Berklee College of Music. After two years of intensive harmony, theory, and guitar instruction, Mike left Berklee to focus on songwriting and developing his now “trademark” melodic playing style. He soon left Boston for Los Angeles, and began sowing the seeds for what would soon become EGODOG.

In 2003, Mike delved into the wildest corners of his imagination and created the musically animated Uncle Moondog, a scruffy-looking terrier who lives on the beach, sings songs, and drives a dune buggy.

(check out www.unclemoondog.com) He wrote, recorded and released the 10-song “Uncle Moondog” CD in December 2003, and has received rave reviews across the country and spanning as far as the U.K and Japan.
In 2004, Mike got a call to complete the line-up for Queen Nation, Los Angeles’ premier tribute to Queen. Looking at it as a labor of love, Mike buckled down and began learning all the guitar parts and transcribing all the harmonies. Not an easy task! His hard work led to an endorsement with Burns Guitars, maker of the Brian May model. Add to that Mike's dead-on Brian May mannerisms and accurate stage attire, and you'd swear you were at the L.A. Forum in 1980!
When Mike’s fingers aren’t around his guitar, they’re usually crossed in hopes that his beloved Boston Red Sox will finally win a World Series title!

Drum heads fear Joey O'Higgins. "My goal is to make the sound guy's ears bleed with my snare alone." Born to Northern Illinois potato farmers who taught him to play poly rhythms by age 3, Joey soon joined the Rosemont Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps and began rocking his first of many football stadiums before discovering the world of rock and roll bands. Joey moved from Chicago to Hermosa Beach, California because Jordan retired. On summer weekends, you'll probably find Joey jet skiing somewhere off the pacific coast. In the winters, snow boarding is in order, although he still sucks.

Catching an NBA game, the Sopranos, or the Leif Garrett-"Behind The Music" is a television must. Belying the conventional wisdom that suburban-bred white boys can't funk out, Joey's infectious playing style can move the lilliest of white people. Whether it's whispers or roars, his drumming provides whatever the song calls for, and he's the first one to suggest hitting the topless club after the gig, especially when Taylor Hayes is the feature.