Blues Society of Western PA - Newsletter

Pittsburgh rock and blues musicians continue to mourn the Jan. 29 death of Warren King, one of the finest guitar players ever to come from this region.
“He was a bluesman’s bluesman,” said Monaca’s Billy Evanochko, a close friend and collaborator the past few years, who arranged for his mentor to play a few Beaver Valley gigs, at places like Wooley Bully’s in New Brighton.
King, who died from cancer, fronted his own blues bands the past decade and previously played in Pittsburgh rock bands like the Igniters, Diamond Reo and the Silencers.
His stellar fretwork with the Silencers, on songs like “Remote Control,” “Too Illegal” and a cover of “The Theme from Peter Gunn” put the band in steady rotation on MTV when that music channel launched in 1981.  Visit You Tube.com and do a search for “warren king Pittsburgh” to see a video montage and marvel at King’s skills, while reading the touching messages that fans and friends have been posting.