BULLETBOYS Announce Return Of Bassist LONNIE VENCENT

BULLETBOYS have introduced the return of bassist Lonnie Vencent and addition of guitarist Jake Faun (David Lee Roth, WINGER) to the group’s ranks.

Earlier immediately, BULLETBOYS frontman Marq Torien shared the next message by way of the band’s social media: “BREAKING!!!! BULLETBOYS NEWS!!! 2025 Touring Dates!!! We’re so enthusiastic about Subsequent 12 months’s Dates and Lonnie Vencent being again within the recreation with us!!! Welcome again my brother!!! New Beginnings, New Dates, New Album, New Music, New Mgt, New Beginnings!!!

“Thanks to all of our Household, Associates and Followers All over the place!!! We’re embarking on a Magical New Enterprise!!! Ty to the wonderful #georgereed for his stellar images!! Love u brother!! Ty to #kencheneymgt for his timeless like to BULLETBOYS! We Love u Ken!! Carry on Punchin and Rockin Yall!! See all yall very quickly!!!”

BULLETBOYS‘ present lineup is rounded out by drummer Fred Aching (POWERFLO).

BULLETBOYS fashioned in 1988 on the very peak of the Los Angeles glam steel motion. As a group of proficient musicians, BULLETBOYS had been capable of rapidly seize the eye of music followers around the globe. Not like different rockers of the day, the BULLETBOYS possessed extra exhausting rock-blues fusion than pure hair steel. Because of comparisons to the likes of AEROSMITH and VAN HALEN, expertise scouts got here working and the band rapidly obtained their first main label contract.

BULLETBOYS‘ self-titled debut was launched in 1988 by way of Warner Bros. and peaked at quantity 34 on the Billboard 200. The album spawned two hit singles, a canopy of the O’JAYS basic “For The Love Of Cash” and “Clean Up in Ya”, each of which charted on the Mainstream Rock chart and noticed common airplay on MTV. BULLETBOYS went on to launch two extra albums, 1991’s “Freakshow” and 1993’s “Za-Za”, earlier than splitting up.

The unique BULLETBOYS lineup — Torien, Vencent, guitarist Mick Sweda and drummer Jimmy D’Anda — reunited 5 years in the past and made its reside return in December 2019 with a sold-out efficiency on the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California. Sweda and D’Anda exited the group once more two years later, with Sweda saying in an interview that he would “by no means do something with BULLETBOYS once more.”