Brent Hankins is a self-taught photographer in Phoenix.

I was able to fly down from my home in Vancouver Canada, to attend their induction into the AZ hall of fame. Clay befriends a troubling serial killer. They would open and then go offstage for an hour and a half and get super drunk [laughs], and then join me at the end.

Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers wrote and performed ... a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man’s wife. ", His keyboard work helped define the Muscle Shoals sound and make him an integral part of many Neil Young recordings. So I always take it very seriously when we’re preparing for a hometown performance. I know what happened on Friday. NOISE POP REVIEW: MNEK, Raja Kumari showcase Noise Pop's diversity at the Rickshaw Stop, REWIND: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and the author are very tired. There are songs that you recorded more than 20 years ago as The Refreshments that are still part of your live show, and it’s great to see audiences still responding to those. Those were Robin Williams' sayings on his TV show Mork & Mindy. Alice Cooper enters the batter’s box.

You’ve got a hugely dedicated group of fans, and you’ve shared the stage with some legendary performers.

It was terrifying, but what drove the decision was a refusal to be immersed, caught in, restricted by and imprisoned by a system that doesn’t allow you to express yourself the way you should—commercially or artistically. We have taken 10 different friends to several shows along with meeting several new Peacemaker friends along the way. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers perform at the Van Buren in Phoenix, Ariz. on Dec. 29, 2018. Yes? You always seem to draw great crowds here in Arizona. Songs about drugs, revolution and greed that have been used in commercials for sneakers, jeans, fast food, cruises and cars.

Your email address will not be published. It drives off a lot of suitors, which is probably really good for us in the end, so we just stay the course.

… Halfway through our tenure with them, which was only about three or four years, the staff was replaced when the company was sold to Seagram’s.

Roger Clyne had a taste of fame as lead singer of the Refreshments, but has found his niche writing and performing with an independent band. The western span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge photographed on Sept. 9, 2020.…, Megadeth performs at the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino on Sept. 6, 2006. The Refreshments got a really great first shake with the record company [Mercury], and it kind of spoiled me on the way bands should be treated. "Womanizer" was Britney Spears' comeback song, going to #1 about 10 months after she was institutionalized to get treatment for addictions and mental health issues. Last weekend we had the privilege to see the 3 Amigos at the Soiled Dove and again at a private show on Saturday night. Clyne and his wife, Alisa Allyn Clyne, live in Tempe; they have three children.

In the next part of the interview, Roger discussed this and other common themes that run throughout his songs - breaking down barriers, global responsibility, and the universal life force, just to name a few.

So we just decided to go back to what we were doing before, and we turned our back on that industry.

As you read this—assuming of course you’re frantically refreshing the site…... Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers perform at the Van Buren in Phoenix, Ariz. on Dec. 29, 2018. So I kind of forced the hand of the record company when our option period was up, which is the date when the record company is supposed to extend your contract and commit to another couple of records.

He owns his own tour bus, nicknamed "The Stallion" and tours all over the United States every year.

The Mexican Moonshine is off the top good too! I know…, Jacob Blake This is supposed to be a humor column about music. Clyne has been a successful, truly independent musician for close to 15 years. previously, he performed with The Refreshments. He also is part owner of a bar in Puerto Peñasco called Banditos. To close out 2018, the Peacemakers celebrated 20 years together with a Phoenix show that saw the bar run out of tequila. MTV reversed the word "joint" in Tom Petty's "You Don't Known How It Feels" so it was unintelligible, but gave the video a VMA anyway. His previous bands include The Refreshments and the Mortals. My BFF lives in AZ she and her family are huge fans of RCPM. The Refreshments got a really great first shake with the record company [Mercury], and it kind of spoiled me on the way bands should be treated. (Lead singer), Vocation : Food and Beverage : Alcohol business, Vocation : Food and Beverage : Other Food and Beverage (Bar owner). Courtesy. Clyne's other interests include his own brand of tequila, named Mexican Moonshine.

Twenty years later, Clyne and his band have released eight albums, established their own music festival in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico and launched their own brand of tequila. Clyne owns his own tour bus and tours all over the United States every year.

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It’s really great to play where you came from, and where you feel the pulse of your roots. Yeah, that’s indelible for me. Every single person I turn on to RCPM comes back astounded after listening to their music! You’ve had an amazing run, first with The Refreshments and then with The Peacemakers. Roger Clyne: I love it. So we found the only other direction we could, and that’s what became “independence” before “independence” was really a term. And we never forget that we’re broadcasting to an audience, and that audience is our community.

They are a great Band and the most amazing people I have had the pleasure to meet. Clyne owns his own tour bus and tours all over the United States every year.

Upon occasion, I’ll rest a song from the more vintage catalog stuff, but it doesn’t take long for me to start missing it. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers perform at the Van Buren in Phoenix, Ariz. on Dec. 29, 2018.

Roger Clyne: I’ll try to give you the short answer: I didn’t like the way we were getting treated, which sounds sort of bratty. Have any of the record labels come calling to bring you back into the fold in the years since you went your own way?

One thing led to another. Privacy Policy   • We've even sipped Mexican Moonshine at a few bars in Tempe, Prescott and Pinetop and have more swag and peacetime goods than we EVER imagined. At the end of AC/DC's "Night Prowler," you hear Bon Scott say, "Shazbot, Nanu Nunu."

And it turned out that the inclusion of them at the end of the show was more fun than me just playing solo, so we just got rid of the solo idea and called it Three Amigos.

Roger lives with his wife, Alisa, and their three children, Otis, Ruston, and Lily, in Tempe, Arizona.

Into the vaults for Bruce Pollock's 1984 conversation with the esteemed bluesman. RCPM concerts are incendiary with each and every show BETTER than the previous one. I’m actively in the process of songwriting right now, so I have a handful of tunes that I’m hoping to show to the band—and to an audience—pretty soon. Roger Clyne is a rock singer from Arizona, United States.

Vocation : Food and Beverage : Alcohol business, Vocation : Food and Beverage : Other Food and Beverage, Lifestyle : Work : Travel for work (Tours), Vocation : Entertain/Music : Group/ Duo (Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers), Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Rhythm guitar, harmonica, kazoo), Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc. It’s a labor of love, it’s an incredibly joyful and painful process; a little self-help and self-discovery, and you hope that it’s a communication that will cross to other hearts and minds and souls.

Clockwise from left: Adrianne Lenker, Liturgy, Secret Chiefs 3, Sunami, Crippled Black Phoenix…, Clockwise from top left: Kelsey Waldon, Kristiane, Teenage Wrist, Bakar, Anna of the North and Kit Major. Required fields are marked *. Is that a sporadic sort of thing, or something the three of you do regularly? When that happened, I think we ended up getting treated sort of like the average band does: “Maybe you’ll get some promotion, maybe you’ll get some artistic license” … instead of “You guys are doing a great job, let’s just put all of our resources behind you.” ….

Roger's been crossing the Mexican border all his life, and that culture is reflected in much of his songwriting. … They said “let us have 90 days to evaluate whether or not you guys are going to succeed at retail and radio, and if you do, then we’ll sign you.” … I said, “you make up your mind now, under the same auspices that this company signed us two and a half years ago, or you let us go.” … So they dropped us. Follow Brent Hankins at Twitter.com/mistermainevent and Instagram.com/greatwidenowhere. The day I don’t get a little bit of cold feet about it, is not a good day, because I’m always a little bit more nervous playing to our home state than I am about going out of state. The trail runs from flying saucer songs in the '50s, through Bowie, blink-182 and Katy Perry.

We cannot wait to leave New England for good to move to the desert Southwest.

But the solution is just ‘buy more tequila,'” Roger Clyne said, laughing.

Now, how we cobble together our commerce behind it is also our job, and we’ve been lucky enough to summon the business acumen to muddle through. They brought RCPM into my life about 10 years ago. Photo: Otto Kitsinger To millions who came into adolescence in the late ‘90s,…, t.A.T.u, Courtesy: NatureBoyMD/Wikicommons. “That happens with way more frequency than I’d like it to. You’re out there to prove a point, so you get in there, you slash and burn and hopefully leave everybody breathless and swooning. Rock on guys Rock on!!!!!!!! An original member of Depeche Mode, Vince went on to form Erasure and Yaz. Roger Meade Clyne (born January 13, 1968) is the lead singer, primary songwriter, and rhythm guitar player for the American rock band Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. His other interests include his own brand of ultra premium tequila, named Roger Clyne's Mexican Moonshine Tequila. … It’s quite the honor to be held in that regard by people like that, or by people I don’t even know. His other interests include his own brand of ultra premium tequila, named Roger Clyne's Mexican Moonshine Tequila. ….

We fielded offers from the other record companies for this quote-unquote follow-up project, which became Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, and those offers were terrible.

That’s…, Clockwise from top left: Carolina Story, BLACKSTARKIDS, Ryan Webster, James Hersey, Rusty Eye and Imelda May.

Hankins is also a film critic at SpoilerTV, president of the Phoenix Critics Circle, and founder of The Nerd Repository. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs. And the way we live up to it is to just keep art at the forefront of commerce, and make our connection to the audience from the stage, with the music. Roger tells the stories behind some of his biggest hits, including "Give a Little Bit," "Take the Long Way Home" and "The Logical Song. Clyne and his wife, Alisa Allyn Clyne, live in Tempe; they have three children.

You’re still very much tied to your roots. Roger Clyne: I wouldn’t do it if it weren’t still fun.

These guys it their all and for the life of me I cannot figure out why they have not blown up more in the mainstream.