Band Members

Basic details for each member.

Tony Eaton

Tony EatonGuitar & Vocals

Singer & Guitarist

Tony Eaton started as a singer whilst still at school with a band that supported many famous names in the ’60s.  After school, he toured Scandinavia and Germany with two fellow musicians before the authorities caught up with him whilst at the Star Club in Hamburg and he had to return to England to get a work permit.  This miscalculation meant his music career went on hold after he renewed his friendship with a beautiful girl by the name of Sue.

Following a fallow period of career and family, Tony met some fellow enthusiasts in 1995 and started a cooperation that, after a few years, became Jurassic Rock.

As far as musical taste is concerned, Tony finds it difficult to come to terms with opera & the far reaches of modern jazz and struggles to identify rap as music, but he enjoys listening to all other genres.  In particular, he likes blues/rock and especially admires guitarist Rory Gallagher.

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Paul “Frankers” Franklin

  

Bass

Admitting that looks can be deceptive, Frankers is, in fact, the baby of the Band and was recruited principally to reduce the average age.

Having started the piano at an early age and dallied with the dulcimer, zither, banjo and guitar, Frankers is a genuinely multi-instrumentalist who ultimately could not resist the pleasant low-end thumps of the bass guitar. Today, his sonic booms are translated in the movement of large volume of air courtesy of a Peavey 800 watt head played through a dedicated 4 x 10 cabinet.

His preferred listening is poodle-permed, spandex-wearing Australian rockers of the same period as Skyhooks, Angels, Divinvls, Rose Tattoo and a smattering of Slim Dusty thrown in for good measure.

This predilection for hair metal is frustrated by its limitation to select festivals and so Frankers has to achieve his overriding ambition to play live, regular gigs within the boundaries of classic rock and he is looking forward to achieving this with the equally enthusiastic members of Jurassic Rock with whom he has a large overlap, if not a parallel, interest in music.

 

 

John D. Ford

Drums

At the age of 14, John played his first gig in his hometown of Brighton with The Jet Blacks, who later became The Motion.

Leaving The Motion after a couple of years, John joined Renaissance Fayre.  Although based in Brighton with its thriving beat scene, Renaissance Fayre played all along the south coast and in acclaimed venues such as Hatchets, Wardour Street and the Forty Thieves, Coventry.  Amongst many others, the Band supported Simon Duprey & the Big Sound, Status Quo and Jimmy James.

From the age of 20, John’s work and family commitments limited his playing to special events with impromptu groupings plus school concerts and productions such as Joseph and the AmazingTechnicolour Dreamcoat.

With the simple philosophy that age is not important, hair less so and with the support of a great (if long suffering) wife, John has joined Jurassic Rock for the pure fun of playing great music with like-minded musicians.