1. Who is Havick? Where did they come from? .

Havick is a fairly new rock party band out of Des Moines that plays mostly modern rock (90’s to today) with a few classics thrown in.

Band members are Brian Lincoln on lead vocals & guitar, Jim Cateron on guitar, Chad Schwartz on bass, and Joe Puente on
drums & vocals. We also have Gene Scott that comes up and plays bass /backup vocals on
some songs, does his famous band introductions, provides our light show, as well as does everything and anything you can imagine to help keep the band going.

Joe Puente - has never been in a band besides Havick but has been playing drums for 12 years.

Gene Scott - has never been
in a band besides Havick and has played bass less than a year. His first live bass performance was the December 31, 2008 New Years Eve Bash at The Reverse Bar in Perry. Quite a few were shocked and delighted to see him play live for the first time! I bet nobody could guess who his bass teacher is.

Jim Cateron - I started a band called Painface with Anders who was the original singer
of Slipknot, also with Jas
(guitar) from On a Pale Horse, Nick Bullock (drums) and
Paul Grinstead (bass). Then I joined Mindsplice with Paul Vanweelden (bass), Mark Loomis (drums), the one and only famous Billy Sevenbergen (guitar), and Kitty (singer) who was the
ex-wife of Craig Jones of Slipknot. She died a few years back of breast cancer. Then Jim was idle for a few years until joining up with Havick.

Brian Lincoln - At the age of sixteen started my first band Cyro. We were way into Duran Duran so we tried to copy there look. With the dyed bangs, tails and we even wore makeup. Members were Brian Lincoln-lead vocals; Ron Mcgee Jr.-lead guitar, vocals, and backup vocals; Dave Prince-bassist who was replaced after a couple of years by Curtis Fuller, Jamie Downing-keyboards; Ty Legget-drums who was soon replaced by a classmate from S.E. Polk Jason Brady of Toad Valley Golf Course. We played half originals and half covers. Some Duran Duran, Cars, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Badfinger, and Beatles. Some of our originals were Shadows Turning Red, Nowhere to Run, Audacious Type, and Doves in a Rainy Season.

My mother managed Alladin's Castle at Merle Hay Mall, so we mostly played there every other Saturday. Switching off weekends with rival band Onyx. We played a battle of the bands at Vittoria Lodge where the Kruze band had dominated. Although we did not win, the Kruze band liked our sound and Rick Maly, Kruze's drummer and sound engineer, wanted to record us. We became great friends with all the band Pat Helan, Dirk Newton, Rick Maly, Ron Kinnenbeck, and their bassist Brian, I can't remember his last name. Some of those members worked at Rieman's Music where Ron Mcgee and Myself took up employment also. Cyro finally came to an end because myself and Ron were getting into harder rock and the rest of the band was getting more techno.

When We split and me and Ron joined forces with Bill King-bassist, Scott Kacher-keyboards, and Paul Grandquist-drums who was replaced after a year by Tim "Boom Boom" Burrows. We named ourselves "Medallion" and it seemed to be a match made in heaven. We lived and breathed rock n' roll. We all worked then at Riemans except our drummer Tim. He found other ways to make money. We became the house band at Hott Rocks, you might remember it as The Pines. We played there Wednesday thru Saturday. It really helped us get tight. We were all young and cocky with a great song list and an amazing live performance. Our song list consisted of White Snake, G n' R, Sammy Hagaar, Skid Row, Zeppelin, Kingdom Cum, Cinderella, Foriegner, Thin Lizzy, Reo Speedwagon. We played pretty much anything and everything.

After three or four years going hard all over the state of Iowa at places like Sioux City, Fort Dodge, Ames, Grand Junction, Des Moines, Bill had a choice between his girlfriend Cindy or the band. Foolishly he chose her. Along with some other variables at the time it pretty much dissolved Medallion. We did do a reunion show at Party Town and along with opening for Pat Travers at Hott Rocks it was a great time.

Ron, Scott and I then tried our luck with the other gentlemen, who we had long time idolized from the Thunderteaz. Lance Harrison- lead guitarist, Tom Murphy bassist, and Kevin Morrissey-drummer who now make up band 3 A.M. and Side Effect. We went strong for about two years under the name Scarlett O' Hara. We played stuff like The Guess Who, Steve Miller, Led Zeppelin, and AC/DC.

What other bands have you all been in?

I’ve had 11 other attempts at putting bands together but Sniffers Row was the first and only other band I’ve really spent some time with besides Havick. Sniffers Row consists of Mark Menegay on guitar, Matt Menegay on guitar, Craig McLaughlin on drums, and for a while Cory Peden on keyboards before he went to Rearview (now Kerosene) then moved down south to Nashville. Sniffers Row started January 2006 and we played one live show at my Birthday Bash in 2008. The song Sniffers Row is most famous for playing that night was Michael Jackson Billie Jean. Never know they could be back out live sometime! It’s really amazing how hard it is to put a band together that lasts for any length of time!

Bob Pace Guitar Teacher
@ Professional Music Center

Gimmick

Seven Hells Above

9. What bands current and past are totally overlooked by most deserve some credit?

I don’t want to name any names but there are some really great bands out there with a lot of talent that get overlooked by fans or never really get a good following. Often times it is things like song selection isn’t crowd pleasing, the sound mix isn’t great, don’t put on much of a stage show, have habits of taking extended breaks or starting way late, can’t adapt to working with different venues and opportunities, or come across as straight up arrogant and unprofessional.
I give any band credit for being out there but if they paid attention to what’s going on and worked on making some improvements they’d get pretty popular and get the credit they deserve.

15. The Des Moines Music Scene - your take?

I think the music scene is very much alive and well! There are an amazing amount of local bands around with tremendous amounts of talent! It’s very unfortunate that the messed up economy has made us lose some of our music venues! But, at the same time I keep seeing more and more new ones pop up. I have a feeling there could be some more talent from Des Moines getting big someday.

What I have been doing is trying to get the bands and fans to work together, become friends, and help support each other! For example, when you put together fun multi-band shows you get the music fans from all the bands coming together all at one place. Often fans end up enjoying the other bands and become fans of theirs too. The fans become friends with each other, they tell their friends about all the fun they had, and before you know it there’s a huge group of people that want to come support you bands shows. When you’re not playing yourself grab your friends and go support your friends shows too!

Another thing that I think is way cool is when bands will get other musicians that are at their show up on stage with them! It helps promote other bands as well as it is fun for the fans to see.

I started 515 Promotions with Doug Sheldon little while back to help put together shows for the local bands and music venues. It seems to be working out pretty well and we have booked quite a few successful shows. But in reality 515 Promotions isn’t just two people promoting shows but it really consists of all of us working together and having a name to go through. I send out weekly band schedules and events to over 200 people each week.