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The Quack
The Quack,
central Kentucky’s premier party band, has been entertaining
audiences with its own powerful brand of good-time music for over
25 years.
The 11-piece
group plays a broad selection of hits from four decades, ranging from
classic Motown and Memphis-style dance hits to current rock with a
few surprises thrown in. The band’s versatile instrumentation
and variety of singers, combined with the diverse musical tastes of
the members, has produced a repertoire of tunes that
includes something to please almost everyone.
The Quack was
originally formed by one of the band’s current members and a
few of his classmates for the annual talent show at the University
of Kentucky College of Law. The next year, The Quack, with a slightly
different lineup, reappeared just in time for the talent show. The
band then went “dormant” for several years, until it reunited
on a whim to play a party in 1986. The band members enjoyed
the reunion so much that they began to actively seek gigs and soon
became regulars at area
country clubs and bars.
Throughout
the 1990s, The Quack played larger and larger clubs, conferences,
hotels, charity events, and other venues as it developed a reputation
for playing fun rock’n’roll with a lot of enthusiasm.
The band’s territory steadily expanded to include the Lexington,
Louisville, Ashland, Indianapolis, and the Cincinnati areas. Regardless
of its other engagements, the band likes to return to Richmond every
summer to play for the college crowds here.
On New Year’s
Eve 1998, The Quack entertained University of Kentucky fans in Tampa,
Florida, on the night before the Wildcats’ appearance in the
Outback Bowl. In 2001 & 2002, the band was the headliner for the
City of Richmond’s Fourth of July fireworks celebration at Lake
Reba, where they played for over 10,000 people.
The current
edition of The Quack includes four members who have been playing together
for more than 15 years, including one of the charter members of the
band.
The Quack is:
Mary Dreiling, vocals; Billy Ray Barker, vocals; Wayne Baxter, guitar
& vocals; Owen
Grise, guitar & vocals;
Doug Lamb, keyboards & vocals; Carroll
Jones, bass guitar & vocals; Herb Tatem, drums; Rob
Fischer, trumpet; Billy Underwood, saxophone; Mike Meuser, trombone;
and Duffy Higgins, sound.
