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A five-piece ragtime/tango/Latin/spaghetti western, instrumentally-based, bonifiedly warranted excuse for a good time.
KING CITY are a five-piece Ragtime/Tango/Latin/Spaghetti Western, instrumentally-based, bonifiedly warranted excuse for a good time.

The music at times is fast, fiery and whimsical in a Carl Stahling chase scene in a circus type of way. It playfully swings and then suddenly beckons of the convulsing tightrope walker above you: "Will He Make It?"... and surprisingly, he does... or does he?

At other times, it romantically invites the listener to slowly waltz on a tear-stained velvet dance floor, or Tango in Trinidad under the pale light of a Balinese moonbeam. From neck brace cartoon rags to entrancingly deep-green mood ballads, King City covers both the Highs, the Lows and a few points in-between. The band likes to say that there's no such thing as mistakes in King City's live performances. "It is as it is, and was as it may be"...they like to say... and it is as it is.

Fronted by local electric guitar Guru and Bodhisattva Rich Morin, King City are the result of an instrumental recording that Rich composed, performed, recorded and sent as a gift to his father in 2002.

The recording came out so well, that in early 2003, Rich assembled most of the musicians who played on these rarely heard recordings and decided to give it a go live-and-in-person at the local bars and haunts of the Mission District of San Francisco. Conclusion: He had a good time. The band had a good time but most importantly, the audience had a really good time and, low and behold, it sounded good. If it sounds good, it is good. It's just simple science... and if you're having a good time and I'm having a good time, doesn't that make it our good time? Hence...King City, bastard that it is, was born.
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