Hard rock band played mostly contemporary covers. Members included Kenny Carter (vocals, guitar ex-New Diablos, Jesse Bolt), Ronnie Coleman (guitar), Winn Krozack (guitar ex-Apricot Brandy), Mark Muhler (drums), Kirk Driscoll (drums –F.A. Duck, Inside Out…). Driscoll went to New York to teach percussion in 1983 and was replaced with Tom Smith who remained with the band until their demise in 1984. Guitarist Jamie LaRitz (Gordon Michaels, Trigger Happy) briefly played for Rolz Royce in 1982. During 1983-84 period Kurt Meyer was the bass guitarist.
Booked by Dick Gray Agency the group played locally and throughout the mid-Atlantic region assisted by their soundman Frank Rankin. They were seen at The Sandbar, Maxwell’s, Seagull Inn, Coast to Coast…
Drummer Tom Smith recalled that Rolz Royce was “a quality band in a day that was really fine for rock bands in Baltimore… Big venues, full P.A. and lights, roadies, and genuinely interested music fans. We used to do 2 two-nighters a week through Dick Gray… It was great fun… Playing all the ‘A’ rooms… on the same circuit with the likes of Bootcamp, Trigger Happy, The Ravyns, Spectrum, and Kix.”
“Ronnie Coleman could play Jimmy Page and sing Robert Plant at the same time…a phenomenal talent. We had a great following. Most enjoyable for me was a tour beginning in Baltimore at the Seagull Inn, taking us to Myrtle Beach, S.C., Wilmington, Raleigh, and Goldsboro North Carolina, up to Ocean City, Md. and then back to Baltimore at Coast to Coast in June 1983. Because we had keyboard capability we could do covers by Genesis, Aldo Nova, Deep Purple, Billy Squier, Journey, as well as stuff by Zeppelin, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Scorpions and others. Definitely the most talent I have ever worked with.”
Coleman and Smith later formed The Digital Warriors. Coleman later with the Back Street Kids, and went on to play with Rhett Forrester (Riot’s second frontman) in L.A. circa 1983-84… Carter went on to join the Guess Who (1986-90). Smith later with Big Money & Highway 49…
