1. Nick Curran has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits Eddie Cochran.
11 Facts About Nick Curran
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Nick Curran began playing drums at the age of 3, showing an amazing ability to keep time even at such a young age.
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Nick Curran would turn on his radio and play along with the music.
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Any "lick" that Nick learned early on, he simply asked Michael to show him how to do it.
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Nick Curran began his professional career at age nineteen, leaving Maine to tour with Ronnie Dawson, "The Blonde Bomber".
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Nick Curran toured next with Texas rockabilly doyenne Kim Lenz, moving to Dallas to join her backup band the Jaguars, and performing on Lenz's recording, The One And Only.
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Nick Curran is featured on Lenz's next CD, It's All True, and toured with her in the summer of 2009.
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From 2004 to 2007 Nick Curran played with The Fabulous Thunderbirds appearing on their 2005 recording, Painted On.
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In 2008, James and Curran formed The Attitudes with Nick, singing and playing drums standing up, and with guitarist CoffeeBoy Johnson.
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Nick Curran performed four songs in a scene in the 2008 HBO Series, True Blood, based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, which explores the co-existence of humans and vampires.
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Nick Curran eventually succumbed to the disease on October 6,2012, at the age of 35.