The BellRays

Blues is the teacher. Punk is the Preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy. Experience and

raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide.

Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made The BellRays happen in 1990 in Riverside, California but

they weren’t really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to play music and they wanted

it to feel good. They wanted people to WANT to get up, to NEED to get up and check out what

was going on. Form an opinion. React.

So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones

Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, and Led Zeppelin (to name a

very few to whom “BLUES IS THE TEACHER”) and pressed it into service.