Fat Bottomed Band
Has the Pacific Northwest finally caught up to Queen?
A rocket scientist, a sports car collector, a nerd, and a polyamorous bisexual libertine with four extra teeth created some of the most amazing music of the 20th century. Over the top live performances, virtuoso musicianship, soaring harmonies, and complex compositions—celebrating love, sex, and life. The world may not have been ready for this mix of opera, metal, rockabilly and funk in the 70s. But the Northwest is definitely ready for it now! With electrifying, high energy performances, operatic four-part harmonies, and meticulous instrumentation, Fat Bottomed Band captures the majesty, power, and fun of Queen in its prime.
Fat Bottomed Band will ROCK YOU!
Song LisT
Do we play your favorite Queen song? Let us know if you have any requests!
A Kind of Magic
Another One Bites the Dust
Bicycle Race
Bohemian Rhapsody
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Don't Stop Me Now
Fat Bottomed Girls
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Hammer to Fall
I Want to Break Free
In the Lap of the Gods
Keep Yourself Alive
Killer Queen
Love of My Life
Now I’m Here
One Vision
Radio Gaga
Save Me
Seven Seas of Rhye
Somebody to Love
Stone Cold Crazy
Tie Your Mother Down
Under Pressure
We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
You're My Best Friend
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Fat Bottomed Band also can do an acoustic set inserted into the electric set, just as Queen pioneered in the 70s!
Betty Mercury
Freddie Mercury is in a class all his own. He weaves in and out of several vocal timbres and styles effortlessly like no other. In his youth, he was known for his ability to play songs off the radio after a single listening. Brian May once told an interviewer that Mercury had an uncanny sense of timing, and could lay down piano tracks as if they were to a metronome. The singer supposedly had a habit of showing up to recording sessions having already fully worked out the complicated, intricate backing vocals to his pieces in his head.
Betty Mercury (AKA Kaylee Jorene) has been finding every excuse to sing and to perform all her life. She’s sung in numerous choirs and competitions and explored many styles while studying voice at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. The challenge of singing Queen is one she’s prepared for with her extensive and diverse training. She also can currently be seen performing with Blake Noble and in Right Hand Drive with John.
John Drenning
Brian May is one of a handful of guitarists who belong in the one-note club: the first note of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” solo, and there’s no doubt about who you’re hearing—a PhD rocket scientist who built his own guitar in his early teens out of his fireplace mantel and a motorcycle kickstand. May’s songwriting, vocal-like guitar playing, and sense of harmony are essential ingredients of the Queen recipe. And he’s the only rock guitar hero who sounds like he wasn’t influenced by anyone.
John started playing an acoustic of his father’s that was lying around the house; when he started studying classical he learned that it could make more notes if you just pressed down on the strings. He grew up playing punk rock and metal, performing at the hardcore matinees at CBGBs in the late 80s, and recording 7”s, back when those were both things you could do. In addition to Fat Bottomed Band, he also plays in American Thighs, and in Right Hand Drive with Kaylee.
Tim Keller
Freddie Mercury is legendary as performer and singer, but what gets lost in the glamour of his onstage persona is that his level of musicianship was extraordinarily prodigious. His technical abilities as a pianist were no joke either. As anyone who has heard the isolated backing tracks on a Mercury-penned song can attest, he effortlessly laid down rhythmically flawless, technically challenging, musically exciting piano tracks, and replicated this playing live. All of these factors combine to make it hard to fill Freddie's shoes in a live context. Even Queen themselves toured with a backing piano/synth player.
Singer, keyboardist, composer, and Seattle native Tim Keller could easily be called one of Seattle's most versatile vocalists. Though he has sung with Lyric Opera Northwest, Puget Sound Concert Opera, and Village Theater, as well as untold rock and pop projects, he is best known as Jack Skellington in the Can Can Kitchen and Cabaret's annual production of This Is Halloween, a burlesque stage adaptation of The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is currently the lead singer of local power metal band Drägorhast, co-fronts the retro close-harmony original "trunk song" band The Dutiful Dreamers, and spends his days singing musical theater and classic jazz cabarets for senior citizens, a job he derives great fulfillment from.
Jeff Cates
John Deacon may be its least known (and most quiet) member, but the band would not be Queen without his funky and soulful bass runs and his contributions as a guitar player, songwriter and composer. From the beautiful melodic bass lines in “Someone to Love” to the thundering groove in “Another One Bites The Dust”, there is no doubt that he was and will always be the “fat bottomed” foundation of Queen.
In 1974 a 13-year-old boy dropped the needle on Queen II in a normal American boyhood bedroom in suburban east Texas. Any doubts about finding the band that became the "love of my life" came crashing down with the massive "Ogre Battle," the first song of the second side. Jeff has essentially been training to be a in a Queen tribute band since then. Live concerts, innumerable recordings in a variety of media spanning decades have birthed in him an appreciation for their catalog that verges on mania. He’s been a bass player and singer in bands since the late '80s, first in Texas and then in Seattle since moving here in 2014.
Chris Lucier
Roger Taylor is one of those drummers that doesn’t get much attention and is often overlooked, even though he contributed to some of the most influential music to hit human ears of all time. His style is unmistakable, his power is undeniable, and his incredible vocal ability is rivaled only by Freddie, himself. So few musicians can ever even dream of achieving the level of musicianship and success that Taylor has, and he deservedly continues to perform to massive audiences all over the world.
Chris Lucier is a professional drummer who has been playing drums for over 25 years. Chris has toured with bands/performance groups all over the US, Mexico, Canada, and Europe. Much of his musical upbringing involved jazz, prog, metal, rock, hip-hop, and funk on drumset, as well as performing with symphonies, drumlines. Chris has also been a percussion instructor for several schools and private students. Chris moved from Phoenix to Seattle in 2011, where he has continued performing and recording as a session musician. He is currently a member of Fat Bottomed Band, Blake Noble Band, Good Quiver, Designer Disguise, and Enterra, as well as working as a session musician.
CONTACT
For booking and press inquiries, please contact Betty Mercury at
fatbottomedband@gmail.com
or call or text (206) 265-3230