Baton Rouge (band)
| Baton Rouge | |
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Baton Rouge, 1991. L-R: Scott Bender, Lance Bulen, Kelly Keeling, Corky McClellan and David Cremin.
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Pearl River, Louisiana, USA |
| Genres | Hard rock, glam metal |
| Years active | 1986–1991, 1997, 2009 |
| Labels | Atlantic, East West, MTM Music |
| Past members |
Kelly Keeling |
Kelly Keeling
Lance Bulen
Scott Bender
Corky McClellan
David Cremin
Tony Palmucci
Keith Harrison
Harold Knappenburger
Brian Scott
Jack Ponti
Pat Schick
Guy Daniel
Camus Celli
Baton Rouge were an American hard rock band, formed in 1986 in Pearl River, Louisiana. The band produced two albums and enjoyed limited success during the final part of the hair metal explosion in the early 1990s, before disbanding. All the band members went on to work with other hard rock recording artists and in particular vocalist and guitarist Kelly Keeling performed with Michael Schenker Group and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
The group was originally composed by Lance Bulen (vocals), Kelly Keeling (guitars and keyboards), Keith Harrison (bass) and Harold Knappenberger III(drums). The group began their career under the name Voices, later changed to Cheetah, then to Meridian and finally to Baton Rouge, because of the similar name of the band Melidian.
The band relocated to Los Angeles in 1987, experiencing changes of personnel and roles within the group. Keeling assumed the role of frontman, Bulen passed on guitar, and two new members were recruited, bassist Bryan Scott and drummer Corky McClellan. The band, still under the name Cheetah, signed to MCA Records and produced a demo and a song with Jack Ponti, before Scott departed and was replaced by Scott Bender. In 1989, after only six shows in Los Angeles clubs, Atlantic Records put the band under contract . With the collaboration of the two songwriting members of the band Surgin’, Jack Ponti and Vic Pepe (the first had worked on the first album of Bon Jovi), Baton Rouge began rehearsing material for their first album. Meanwhile in 1989, Keeling, Bulen, and Ponti, contributed some songs for the album Point Blank of the German hard rock band Bonfire.
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