Lockdown Junkies
Extended
The LOCKDOWN JUNKIES is a project created by the Lockdown. This is what happens when you sideline four touring musicians. They begin to write, record, and jam with friends. When travel restrictions abound, local musicians get together with other known locals. That's exactly what happened in a town just northwest of Bologna, Italy called Poviglio. These four musicians, (Mauro, Casey, Tommy, and Paulo,) have navigated their way through the pandemic by getting together for 'birra' (beer) and making music, some of the best music in the world has to offer. With forty years of Raw Power, the success of Rigor Mortis, GWAR, Beer Pong, and Extrema all essentially on hold, these three Italians plus one American chose to get together and keep music alive. A sideline band of creativity and different ideas of those from their regular musical endeavors was born out of the pandemic. Something to jam to and relax to and take their minds off the suffering caused by Covid. PIG Records is proud to offer this COVID CREATION by four gentlemen who mean as much to the musical culture of Italy as Archimedes, Galileo, Marco Polo, and Mark Anthony mean to the country's history. The LOCKDOWN JUNKIES dedicate this recording to all the families and friends in the world who have lost a loved one to the syndrome. Not everything that comes out of the pandemic has to be bad. The LOCKDOWN JUNKIES gift to you is their music and while they cannot revive the deceased, they can comfort the living with their songs in the hopes that it takes the mind off of the pandemic for a few minutes.