TONY BALAORO

Drums, Lead Vocals & Backing Vocals

Tony began his musical venture when he was 7 years old. His parents wanted him to play guitart and enrolled him in lessons. A year had passed only to find Tony eager to learn the drums. Tony then played the whole gambit of percussion throughout his school years and finally joining his first rock band right out of high school. He then played in a few cover bands in the early 80's untill he moved to Eastern Washington. He then joined Knite Kry, one of Eastern Washington's favorite rock cover bands. In the early 90's he played in Bounty Hunter, a southern rock/new country cover band. Tony then was in a band that would later cross paths with Marc Marriott. After 6 years of playing in Eastern Washington Marc and Tony decided to form DIRTY OLD MAN and bring the show back to Western Washingtion.