Darryn Izzo – Electric, Acoustic, Synth Guitar, Vocals

Mike Greco – Bass, Vocals

MIKE DRUMHELLER – Drums, Percussion, Vocals

BACKGROUND/HISTORY      Plays a versatile combination of classic and top 40 rock hits along with original music (check our song list!).  We have been playing a variety of area clubs, pubs, parties and functions throughout western Massachusetts and Connecticut since 1998 (check out our website to find out when, where and how to get to the next show!)…  We are constantly adding new, classic top 40 and alternative material to our song list, so if you have a tune you really want us to play, drop us an e-mail and make a request!  Better yet, get on our e-mail list and we’ll remind you of upcoming show dates!  We’ll see you at our next show… 

Darryn Izzo – Electric, Acoustic, Synth Guitar, Vocals

Darryn is an over-the-hill baseball player-musician who relives his youth by playing in a rock and roll band!  He has been playing area clubs since he was sixteen in various bands, but it wasn’t until 2003 and then in 2006, did he re-unite with the final of his two former band mates from FIASCO to form the present line-up...  Darryn wanted to continue the discontinued past by luring his poor, starving, former band mates into the “fiasco” of playing in another cover band!  That’s precisely where the 1220  saga begins! 

Mike Greco – Bass, Vocals

Mike is another mid-life crisis guy reliving his former glory days in a cover band.  When Mike isn’t gigging in the band, he can be found delivering pizzas for his parent company, the corporate giant, Delivery Express… 

Even though Mike initially began as a one-man lounge act tickling the ivory as a singer/piano player covering Neil “Love On The Rocks” Diamond and Jack “Love Boat” Jones covers, he convinced himself that the chicks would really prefer the low vibrating tones of the bass guitar – He was right!  After his 16th birthday, he ditched his first love and the piano, then applied his fingering techniques to the bass guitar! 

Mike quickly advanced on the bass!  The chicks were magnetically drawn to his finger-plucking prowess.  They were quite impressed with his vocal crooning, too!  But doing solo-act lead bass and covering David Hasselhoff tunes in dark, seedy, Berlin nightclubs under the codename Chance Lankton wasn’t Mike’s shtick…  It nearly broke the poor man!  In fact, Mike checked himself into the Ray of Elvis Lounge Act Rehabilitation Center in Reno, Nevada for some aggressive therapy.  He was granted a new outlook on life!  After returning to Massachusetts to run his pizza delivery business, Mike’s life would change but again one faithful day – this time for the surreal… 

While delivering pizza to a band practice (yes, Mike was discovered by 1220 on a pizza delivery run!), he courageously sat in with the band singing, of all things, the Hasselhoff cover, “Do You Know The Way To San Jose?”  The band members were breath-taken and teary-eyed.  After wiping their eyes and regaining their composure, Mike’s former band mates offered Mike “…the way to San Jose!”… 

As a result, Mike signed a long-term contract with the band containing a few added perks…  His contract states he receives a life-time supply of spring water, ear plugs, and an occasional cameo/solo-shot between sets singing his all-time favorite Hasselhoff standards!  If you play your cards right, you just might be able to catch him crooning between sets at our next show – but only by request!  Hasselhoff lives!

MIKE DRUMHELLER – Drums, Percussion, Vocals

Mike has been playing drums and percussion since he was last seen on Strummin’ Drummers in the late 1970’s!  He recently signed a long-term commitment with 1220  and returned to active duty after a sabbatical.  Tired of being referred to as “Phil D’s kid”, Mike left the St. Petersburg-based Russian cover band, Ivan and the terribles.   

Late one night, while Darryn was watching re-runs of Boris and Natasha on Russian closed-circuit TV, he picked up a distress signal straight from the Kremlin - it was “Phil D’s kid”!  Mike was out of work and living on the dangerous streets of Moscow!  Darryn devised a scheme...  With the promise of fame, fortune and riches exclusive only to cover bands, he had the CIA fly his former band mate out of the Red zone - back to America where he was met with open arms!  The band crisis continues… 

Actually, after feeling pathetically sorry for Darryn as an out-of-work ballplayer-musician, Mike agreed to a long-term contract with the band with one catch – that he be allowed to turn on his drum machine in an endless loop to come out front and join the other two front men in an uproarious rendition of the Hokey Pokey while “Phil D’s” kid ran around wireless singing to all the ladies…  So if you see someone “Dancing With Himself” relax!  It’s just “Phil D’s” kid… uh ~ I mean Michael D “Wanting You to Want…” him!  Yes, another over-the-hill musician going through a mid-life crisis by manifesting his frustration playing covers in a local band…  But it’s not his fault!  Blame his former band mates!  Mike is a solid performer and has quickly added his percussive and vocal talents to round out the 1220 line-up...