Lifelong choir geek, singing and live music have been a source of much enjoyment and may friends over the years. From numerous honor choirs all through school, to friends with bands in Osage, Iowa during Jr. High ("Limelight" anyone?), as well as in Elkhardt, Idiana during High School ("Rage"/ "Circus"/ "Rock Bottom"), and again in Cedar Rapids after moving back from Maui in '97.

A friend and veteran of the local music scene, Don Crippen, introduced him to his high school classmate and guitarist Mark Shelton, who happpened to have a drum set, too. Motivated by too much vocal mediocrity and the desire to finally get off his ass and do something about it, in May 2002, Ken started working on coordinating his limbs and vocal chords while the two started working up a set list.

By October he bought his first drum set and their musician search had yielded 2nd guitarist Dennis Hite and bassist Adam Draeger. The first gig was played in June '03 under the name, "Blind Ambition", but underwent a swap of 2nd guitarist after just 2 gigs. Enter BYRON WOOTEN, and in March, '03 the band, "Blind Lab Rats" (BLR) was born.

BLR enjoyed much success and fun in the Cedar Rapids area at various functions, highlighted by an opening spot for the Jeff Healey Band at the Chrome Horse "grand opening" Summer of 2004.

Soon after, Bassist Adam Draeger announced he would be re-locating to Pella, Iowa for a new day job. The band dissolved and went their separate ways, sealing the fate of Blind Lab Rats.

Ken started assembling another band, "Monkey Business", and during the birth stages, he kept busy in varying capacity, singing for Iowa City based band, "Bigfoot", and singing/drumming for Cedar Rapids based "Boneshaker" before the official debut of the line-up you see here.

And the rest is history...

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