The southpaw 12-stringer is rocking harder than ever, which is evident on the new record from KXM
“My mother said I was singing before I could talk,” recalls dUg Pinnick. “I was humming melodies before I could speak words. And she said she always wondered what I was going to grow up to be, because I could draw pictures and stuff at a real early age. And, she thought, ‘Hmmm, what’s up with this kid?’” What was up, was a kid who would eventually blossom into the self-proclaimed “bigger-than-life” bassist and lead vocalist for King’s X. The Houston-born power-trio burst onto the scene in the late ’80s with musical masterstrokes Out of the Silent Planet [1988, Megaforce] and Gretchen Goes to Nebraska [1989, Megaforce], both championed by their peers as the future of rock music.
Though those early records didn’t pave the way for the kind of commercial success King’s X once seemed destined for, they did establish the band as influencers, via both songcraft and as individual performers. Pinnick, for example, emerged as a singular voice on bass guitar. Through me