Push Down & Turn's Sam King '94 Profiled by NUVO

April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "There was a time (much of the 90s, into the early 2000s) when the band Push Down & Turn ruled the Indianapolis club music scene," begins a NUVO column. The alternative weekly newspaper notes that the band was "the go-to pick" of the era "with big, fat radio rock (and their own stuff added for legitimacy and depth). Bandmembers Sam King ['94], Jason Brown ['95], Jason Barth ['93], Tay Bourquein ['93] and Matt DeVore ['94] (all DePauw University grads) were part of the band that was perennially named NUVO's Best Local Rock Band winners."

That text is a prelude to an interview with King, who continues to perform.

"I stay relatively busy, but it's a little slower now than it was before the economy took the downturn in 2008-09," he tells NUVO. "I have a nice niche, in that if someone wants live music, but doesn't want to pay $800 a night for a band, I fit their bill. The places seem to rotate a lot, but some constants for me are Cheeseburger in Paradise in Southport, The Rathskeller, and the Quarry in Kokomo ... I'm always writing, but probably not recording as much as I should be. It's fun for me to try out new things playing them in front of people, rather than just hearing a recorded version of it. There's more emotion live. And I'm not one of those guys who use a looper pedal or sampler, that's just not me. If I can't pull it off with just me and a guitar and win the crowd over, then I need to work harder."

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Read about Push Down & Turn in this previous story.

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