I started singing in public at 4, Began guitar at 9, practicing with a real established band, "The Blue Invaders", at 10. Played 3 piece bands with my brother and friend til I left home at 18. Played private functions, Moose Lodges, Country Clubs bars and dives until 1980. Toured the East Coast playing on the road for frats and clubs in 1981. Joined a heavy metal band called Rockacy, moved to Memphis and landed many gigs in the surrounding areas. In 1982, Rockacy Toured Germany/Azores Islands for the USO .Have played many many different venues since then. Was more recently in a cover band called The Paparoxy. We played classic and modern rock, we even turned some pretty popular radio tunes into some interesting but fun rock songs. We were a guitar heavy band, we lovedit loud and more importantly, we had fun.
Meanwhile, I write and record a variety of songs and place them on www.Reverbnation.com/keithbrooks, fandalism.com and also submit some to Westsidewillradio.com for internet airplay.
Currently enjoying hearing a cd I have been involved with from the beginning of its birth. It is by Dick Barnes, Carolina Country Living. Its debut song reached number one in Europe and other songs are still charting.
Personally in March I released XQz Me (excuse me) and I am releasing 2 hard rock CDs, a country cd, and an easy listening instrumental cd by spring 2016.
Thanks for reading a little about me.

Steppenwolf, 1968? I want to say. Free was the opening band. It was in Boone, NC on the Mountaineer campus. IT WAS GREAT.I went with a 4-H group and some local friends. Actually sat with a girl. LOL What i now remember most? The ticket was a dollar and fifty cents. I had to mow a yard for the money to go.

I would be overwhelmed to find an artist who was interested in recording some of my music, or a publishing company, manager, producer who believed in me and my music. I had a BIG chance once with a SUPER MAJOR label, but the band broke up, even with a promise from this label, and that was that. THANKS GUYS!
Carry on, whether anything comes of it or not. I am getting older but, you can take the boy out of music, but cant take the music out of the boy. It is a passion, a burning desire to perform. I AM a musician. That's who I am.

I love my guitars, I have an Epiphone Les paul, and 2 Floyd Rose Discovery guitars, A transformed Fender Squire Tele, a Dean Exotica acoustic, and Ibanez bass. I run the electrics through either a Crate 120 watt combo or a Marshall Half Stack. At home I use a Korg d1200mkii recorder, with a set of Alesis Monitor One reference speakers, Yamaha Keyboard w Korg M3R and REI Remote. FUN INDEED ! ! ! I love the Les Paul thru the Marshal, but my fav guitar is my black Floyd Rose Discovery. SWEET

WOW! I have so many. I started rock and roll with The Ventures, CCR, CSNY, Free, Bad Company, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Mott the Hoople, Uriah Heep, Blue Oyster Cult, Ted Nugent, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, then theres 38 Special (my fav). I do believe you can hear a little of them all when I play.

Currently I am involved only with Dick Barnes and my solo projects

I wanted SOOOO bad to get on stage with Joe Bonamassa when he was in Greensboro. Just to jam a 3 chord blues thing would have been such a high for me. HE IS AWESOME. I have just recently became a huge fan after watching his Royal Albert Hall DVD. I've been hooked ever since. I always prefer playing over listening. It's the burning desire I have to perform live. But I get into closed session jamming too.

Heidlebeug, Germany 1982, 2nd day of Rockacy's USO tour we played at a folksfest. The tent was the biggest Id ever seen with vendors lining both sides. The schedule got mixed up and we ended up playing last which was much better for us There were 4500 seats, the more we played the more people came in until there was not even standing room. The man in charge asked us if we could play at least 45 more minutes because he was selling more concessions than ever. We played 8 encores, each time we left the stage and listened to the crowd want us back we got really psyched up. Plus, each time we went off stage, our room kept getting more and more beer. The people were buying us German beer and sending them back stage to us. Needless to say we had one big afterparty before we left. The estimated crowd was 10.000. The man said he'd never seen anything like it in all the years of running that tent. WE WERE ROCKSTARS THAT NIGHT. It was a highlite of my life..
The smallest? July 4th in about 1984?. I was with a top 40 group called "Surge" at that time, in fact this night the drummer and I decided to leave and start our own band. The crowd swelled to about 5, one of which was a reporter for the local paper. We still got a good review. I have the article and pics still.

Its got to be 38 Special with all their hits. I LOVE this band. I like their clean meaningful lyrics, their smooth vocals and theres the driving guitars I love. I started getting into 38 Special with the Wild Eyed Southern Boys ALBUM that I had won from the rock station in Memphis. YES, I met them in Greensboro and hung out with them for quiet a long time over a couple beers. Don and I HAVE to be closely related. My cousins and he look alike. LOL