Daily Breeze RAVE! "Band In A Box" Feature -- 1/13/2006

Loud Neighbor

Loud Neighbor is proof that bands that play music just for the sheer fun of it still exists.

The South Bay band consists of dentist Aris Corkos (guitar) and his wife, Joyce Corkos, (bass) of Redondo Beach, orthopedic surgeon Nic Halikis (guitar) of Hermosa Beach and businessman Todd Turquand (drums) of Torrance.

It's listener-friendly set lists can include just about anything from "Wipeout" to Weezer; its Web site (www.loudneighbor.com) lists 60 songs in its repertoire, but it's a good bet band memebers know a lot more than those shown.

Loud Neighbor squeezes in local shows when its members' schedules allow, and when Aris Corkos isn't busy tinkering with his extensive amplifier collection.

The next Loud Neighbor show will be at 9:30 pm Jan. 27 at the Pitcher House, 142 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach. For information, call 310-374-0626. Admission is $3.

- Sam Gnerre

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Easy Reader Live Music Review -- 9/22/2005

Loud Neighbor -- by Ryan Beachkofski

For more than a half a century, the Lighthouse Café has been hoarding the best acts in the South Bay. Perhaps it’s the historical lure, or maybe it’s the limited venues available for live music in our parts. Either way, there has not been a Friday or Saturday night (and Reggae Sundays) in 50 years in which you couldn’t find good song and dance at the Lighthouse. Friday was no exception.

Loud Neighbor, a four-member white collar cover band from Palos Verdes, played a song list that spanned 20 years. From Pink Floyd to Aerosmith to contemporary, Loud Neighbor touched on it all. It was akin to engaging in four sets of Rockstar INXS, only without the INXS or Dave Navarro and his desperate need to sit in on songs.

Loud Neighbor is Aris Corkos on microphone and guitar, his charming wife Joyce on bass (who’s watching the kids?), Nick Halikis on lead guitar and Todd Turquand on drums. Together, they made a very palatable evening of covers that pleased the crowd and had heads bobbing and feet tapping.

This quartet (made up of a doctor, dentist, businessman and mommy) can play. In our Herbert Hooverian “band in every garage” era that we live in, it’s tough to weed out the recreational band with those who can play. But these long time friends belong on stage in their spare time. And they looked like they enjoyed the spotlight.

In a brief sit down with Joyce, I learned, not only that she was a first chair flutist at PV High before she picked up the bass, but also that music is part of her lineage. From her father, Dick Kaehler, playing gigs in the South Bay in the ‘50’s to her boy, Perry, rocking the ¾-Gretsch kit for the Dark Black Skeletons (local heavy metal hair band of 8-year-olds), the family tree is fed by G chords and paradiddles. The proud wife and mom can also thump a bass. She may stand in the background on stage and duck the attention, but I saw her fingering some triplets and using her thumb. Go ahead girl!

Loud Neighbor, cleverly coined by Joyce in gratitude to their quiet neighbors, can be seen about town once a month or in between root canals. They have played at Keegan’s and Suzy’s and even Rebo’s in the past, so the Lighthouse was a good venue for the band. Not that the other stages were not quality, it is just that when you play at the Lighthouse you are sharing a stage with the likes of Miles Davis.

Upcoming events for Loud Neighbor include the Lighthouse on Saturday, November 19. For future bookings, please see www.loudneighbor.com.

Also, keep a watchful eye out for the Dark Black Skeletons opening up for the lady that sings the national anthem at this year’s Little League opening day ceremonies.

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