Chris Frohring - Guitar, Backing Vocals

When he was a young boy, Chris Frohring begged for piano lessons like his older siblings had gotten only to quickly find that he didn’t much like it. He particularly hated practicing, so instead of going over his assigned lessons he began making up his own songs in order to fool his mother into believing he was doing what he was supposed to be doing. Though he quit as soon as he could (like most kids forced into such lessons), this ruse led to a lifetime of composition and when he heard the Token’s The Lion Sleeps Tonight he understood the awesome power of music he knew his destiny. He began playing guitar voluntarily at age ten influenced by his father’s being a guitarist and his brother Glenn being something of a super-fan, the kind of guy who bought all the box sets and shared his love of music with Chris. In high school he began his first band, The Domino Theory and this outfit continues to record together today. Chris began recording on a four-track machine before he could legally drive and credits his love for recording with inspiring him to learn to play guitar, bass, and keyboards at a professional level. His Bed Whistle recording project, which he classifies as post-psychedelic introvert rock, has been going for decades resulting in over forty records including such memorable titles as The Known Owl, Space King, Emotional Support Donkey, and Orange is the Color of the Future.


Chris moved to Seattle in the 1990s, not because of Grunge but rather because his sister had relocated there and was friends with The Posies, one of the great power pop groups of the period. Grunge however crushed the kind of music Chris loved under a sledgehammer of fuzz and he wound up working at Microsoft as an in-house composer, writing the music that would greet the viewer when they clicked on MSN.com. Returning to Ohio he started a recording studio with Erik Diaz (Hot Tuna) in Akron and the pair also formed the popular jazz-funk band The Sons of Ernesto, in which Chris played keyboards. What followed was too many overlapping bands to count including the Alan Swift Band, Community Shoe and Meg and the Magnetosphere. It was as a member of the latter group that he met Jen and Evan from Kiss Me Deadly and they became friends and mutual fans. When Jen suffered a broken hand in a tragic roller skating accident and couldn’t play a series of shows Kiss Me Deadly had booked the band turned to Chris to sit in for her on guitar. His parts immediately became integral to the band’s sound and so when Jen could once again play guitar they asked Chris to officially join Kiss Me Deadly. He provided the lost piece that they had previously not even known they needed but now couldn’t imagine being without. His shared love of the Beatles and Beach Boys fit in perfectly with the bands’ eclectic vibe and his love of psychedelia, Syd Barrett, XTC, Soft Machine, added a new dimension to the sound that kicked it into another dimension. He continues writing and recording, waking up virtually every morning with a new song in his head that he just has to commit to tape.