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The Acceleratii are a four-piece group from Duluth, Minnesota that specializes in 50's/60's rock, country, rockabilly & psychobilly music. The group formed in the fall of 2005, its early shows taking place mostly in and around downtown Duluth- home to the only sizeable music scene Minnesota can offer north of the Twin Cities.
The band is fronted by singer Chad "Bo Bandit" Lyons, who first proposed assembling this kind of group after spending many, many long hours surrounded by psychopaths and firearms in his Duluth pawn shop. Quick to sign up were friends Steve "Gomez" Mahlberg and Ben Marsen, two guitarists who years before had founded another Duluth group with similar revivalist tendencies called the Black Labels. Marsen opted to handle the bass playing for this new band in order to highlight the amazing chicken-pickin' capabilities of his guitar mentor, the north woods' uncanny one-of-a-kind rockabilly savant himself- Gomez.

Lyons looked up ...