RAZOR NIGHTS
At a Chinese Rocks Halloween 2017 gig, Mario "Moonrunner" Gomez told me he wanted to start a new band. We'd first crossed paths when his band Jet Kill Radio gigged at Bar Eleven with Chinese Rocks in 2012, and I remembered that he had real talent, lead singing while playing drums simultaneously.
After quitting The Little Richards and that whole scene in January 2018, the timing was perfect for me to refocus my creative energy with someone I'd never worked with, before.
He emailed me 3 demo songs he'd been working on, and i loved what i heard! We soon got to work filming a few videos with our friend Neil Revenga on 2nd guitar (who i'd worked with before as the Mick Mars in our Motley Crue tribute Too Fast For the Devil).
Initial lineup: Moonrunner - lead vocals/DD - guitar, backup vocals/Neil Revenga - guitar, backup vocals
Eventually, we decided we would like to have a classic rock n roll setup with a bassist + drummer. I recruited drummer Matt Franco, who I'd previously worked with in Flaggs; Mario got bassist Rick Blair, who he'd been in Multiple Stab Wounds and Makeout Boys with in the 1990s.
"Come Without Warning" era lineup: Moonrunner - lead vocals/DD - guitar, backup vocals/Rick Blair - bass/Matt Franco - drums
"Last Days" era lineup: Moonrunner - lead vocals/DD - guitar/Rick Blair - bass/Andrew Hockenberry - drums
Unfortunately, it's the morning of 03/09/25 and I received the news yesterday that Mario passed away after a long and difficult illness. I'm still processing the news, but compiling all of this content is very therapeutic.
Mario was always a joker, and i like to think that by living past 30 and proving his childhood doctors wrong, he got the last laugh.
Razor Nights was a damn good American rock n roll band.
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Diana Death