HOSTY DUO BIOGRAPHY
The Music began with Zulu King in 1989 in the basement of a Norman OK rent house on Page Street featuring songwriting pal John Cook, who left music to persue screen writing Mexican Wrestling Sci Fi movies in LA and Lex the Lord of Drums whose drum solo's left him with bloody stumps. Hosty then met Sagitarius Michael Byars in van bound for a pick up gig in Tulsa Oklahoma where each received twenty bucks for their services.
Soon after which,Byars moved to Austin Texas and Hosty stayed in Norman playing with Roots Rock Legend from Greece, Balsile Kaliopolis in the Reverb Brothers, the Hippie free lovn New Tribe and Heater featuring WC Field on bass and Scott "the heater" Mason on the drums. Heater's self titled album "Heater " and the follow up "Burnone" captured the Meters meet Black Sabbath sound.
Hosty also had a slew of three piece ensembles, one of which was the Silvatones featuring a recently returned from Austin, Texas Michael Byars. Another was the Mopheads, which included former Jackson five bass player Michael McKinney whose claim to fame was being featured on the Jackson Five Victory tour. Who also leant a hand in the Mike Hosty Trio's first recording "Volume" in 1996 on the track "Motion". "Volume" was a collection of various combinations of musicians as it began as a side project from the widely successful band Heater. When Heater closed its doors for business up on News Years Day of 1996, the Mike Hosty Trio began. The New Year in 1997 the Hosty Trio with Michael Byars on the drums which pared down to a Duo in June of 2000. An Anthology of the material from this period is available documenting the rock machine as they churned out an impressive four records thanks to the good folks at Discover Card.
The Hosty Duo's penchant for catchy songs and high-octane live shows has given them the opportunity to open for many diverse acts such as R.L.Burnside, Cedell Davis, T-Model Ford, Hank Williams III, Dick Dale, Marcia Ball, G. Love and Special Sauce, Bo Diddley, Tenderloin, BR5-49, Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic, ,Walter Wolfman Washington, Bobgoblin, Juice, David Garza, Dr Hook, Roger Cline and the Peacemakers, Soulhat, The Hackensaw Boys, Bardo Pond, Rubber Bullet, Little Sister, Billy Joe Shaver,Cross Canadien Ragweed, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, and, of course, Quiet Riot. In addition, several songs from their CD catalog have gotten airplay on local stations such as KGOU in Norman, KRXO in Oklahoma City and KRSC in Tulsa even overseas in Macedonia, Spain, Belgium, Brazil and the Netherlands.
The Hosty Duo has toured the United States from Norman Oklahoma up to Mineaplois, MN down to Columbia, SC south the Houston and out West to Pheonix, San Diego and up in the Rocky mountains of Colorado. From Coast to coast and up and down the length of I-35 they have played. If you dangle shinney objects in front of them they might just show up and play for you too.
Currently Mike Byars spends his tme building expansion bridges in his back yard and Mike Hosty is an air Conditoner repair man who works on the Janitrol R-450 from 1972 to 1980. In addition, several songs from their CD catalog have gotten airplay on local stations such as KGOU in Norman, KRXO in Oklahoma City and KRSC in Tulsa even overseas in Macedonia, Spain, Belgium, Brazil and the Netherlands.
