Diesel Boy
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Diesel Boy is a band from Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th...

, US. They have always been signed to Honest Don's Records
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According to Last.fm
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, Diesel Boy's most popular tracks are "Titty Twister", "Looks That Kill" and "She's My Queen".

History

The band was formed in summer 1993, and their first album was released in 1996. Afterwards, they toured in the US, Canada
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, Europe
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 and Australia
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In 2001, following their last album, the band unofficially split up, because "things just got wound down". Their last concert was played in 2002.

In 2006, the band suddenly created a MySpace
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 page, and later in 2009 a Facebook
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page. In October 2010, the band reunited. On July 18, 2011, it was officially announced that the band will write a new album.

Members

  • Dave Lake "Diesel Dave" – vocals and guitar
  • Justin Werth - guitar
  • Greg Hensley - bass guitar
  • Geoff Lackey - drums

Cock Rock (1996)

Venus Envy (1998)

Sofa King Cool (1999)

Rode Hard and Put Away Wet (2001)

TBA (2012)

Since the band's reunion they have been working on a new studio album, expected to be released by 2012.

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