This was also the first disc to feature Murphy, and itĬontained the band's first collaborations with renowned Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. In 1995, Zero released Chance in a Million, Currently rounding out the band are bassist Bobby Vega, keyboardist Chip Roland, Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders’ Legion of Mary, joined Zero and helped to cement In 1985, saxophonist Martin Fierro, an alumnus of both the Grateful Dead’s 1973 Fall Tour and Here that the seeds for Zero were first laid, although Anton and Kimock are the only remaining This outfit later mutated into The Ghosts, and it was Gold Band (Keith and Donna Godchaux’s group). Prior to the formation of Zero, Anton and Kimock had worked together in the short-lived Heart of Consequently, it remained a well-kept secret - that is until last summer’s Furthurįestival thrust Kimock into the limelight as a last-minute addition to The Other Ones.
Scene, and it really wasn’t until a decade later that it began to tour and develop a nationalĪudience. Steve Kimock, the group has managed to skirt the outer edges of the Bay Area/ Grateful Dead/jam band Founded in 1984 by drummer Greg Anton and guitarist Zero, who just released its third major label album Nothin’ Lasts Forever, has beenĪround a lot longer than most people realize. Learning to cope and understand the highs and lows of life and placing those experiences in his art to reach this point in life to tell the world his journey from Erk Tha Jerk to Kevin Allen and everything in between in his new album “Nothing Lasts Forever”, releasing on October 29th, 2021.First Appeared at The Music Box, March 1999, Volume 6, #3 Finding out things don’t last forever and have to die to be reborn into the needed version for the moment.
Creating and losing family, friends, and relationships. Kevin has used these last 15 years working on himself. In these last 5 years, Kevin’s photography has made a serious impact on the Bay Area with his visions being used for billlboards, album covers, and in 2021, being used in Essence Magazine for a spread for Black Girls Greenhouse in West Oakland, CA. In 2019, Kevin founded the hip hop collective and production company Grand Nationxl that released 6 projects as a collective in 2020 including his EP “Heroes Eventually Die”. Nationally known for the melodic hit singles Hands Up & Right Here during his time as a hip hop artist coming up in the height of the Bay Area’s Hyphy Era in the mid-late 2000’s (during his time as Erk) has transcended himself into an omnipotent artist in tune with all things introspective from social, political, relationship views in multiple fields of creativity.ĭuring the mid 2010’s Kevin made the transition from Erk, the hip hop artist, to Kevin Allen, the hip hop artist, producer, video director, talent developer, marketing & brand manager, and critically acclaimed photographer. Formerly known as Erk Tha Jerk- a born and raised East Oakland and North Richmond native.
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