Outside of Luna Lounge, a trendy little live music spot on New York City's lower East Side, 10 Heads High bassist Michael Borenstein is shivering through his post-gig cigarette while chatting up a gaggle of female friends. A stranger comes up, an ol [+]Outside of Luna Lounge, a trendy little live music spot on New York City's lower East Side, 10 Heads High bassist Michael Borenstein is shivering through his post-gig cigarette while chatting up a gaggle of female friends. A stranger comes up, an older man maybe a bit out of place in the current scene in his fishing hat and corduroy jacket, who offers a congratulatory handshake and a bizarre analogy for the riveting show he just witnessed.
"Man, I was telling your singer - you know that scene in Back To The Future where Michael J. Fox is plays the guitar at the prom and everybody's jaw kind of drops? It was like that when you guys came on."
Borenstein just sort of smiles and takes in the compliment. The members of 10 Heads High are used to hearing this kind of thing, maybe not with the Hollywood parallel thrown in, but used to it all the same. For close to 3 years, 10 Heads High has been having this sort of effect on audiences throughout their home states, New York and New Jersey (drummer Brian King being the Garden State native.)
The band's beginnings can actually be traced to Long Island, where singer Marc Lombardo and guitarist Tommy Kohl were once guitarists in rival bands, and subsequently co-guitarists in the same band. Ultimately that project ran its course, but a friendship and partnership between Lombardo and Kohl rose from the ashes. They began writing songs and auditioning singers, but became frustrated with not being able to find the right voice for the songs. One day, Kohl simply turned to Lombardo, and said "You can sing this stuff, why don't you be the singer?"
To catch Lombardo on stage now, with his cocky Jagger-like swagger and his strong early-Rod-Stewart-meets-Chris-Cornell set of pipes, you'd think he was born a frontman. He straps on a Fender Strat for a couple of songs, but prefers to leave the bulk of the guitar work these days to Kohl, a Telecaster-wielding classic guitar hero, an expert of textures and stomp-box flavors, like Page to Plant, a stoic icon of cool over on stage left.
Lombardo and Kohl found their bassist and drummer through successive ads in the Village Voice, the same New York weekly through which Kiss originally got together. Having had the common experience of being the standout member in all
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