Shock Tu

Rick Soga - Guitar

Steve Mitchell - Guitar

Tommy Jon - Vocals (real name Tommy Gianikos)

Danny Boyd - Drums

Ty Tyler - Bass (real name Todd Berry)

Tyler left in 1987 & was replaced by Jim Miller from The Bellows, who Tyler then replaced. Although it was not a brokered trade, essentially they swapped bands, whereafter Tyler dropped his stage name.

Rick Soga - Guitar

Steve Mitchell - Guitar

Tommy Jon - Vocals

Jim Miller - Bass

Danny Boyd - Drums

3 shows later, Tommy Jon left for LA and eventually formed Mad Moxie. After Jons left, Soga joined The Godz, as had Boyd some months before--he was already in the Godz on the occasion of Shock Tu's final three shows with Johns. Boyd was allowed to play these shows provided he wore a Godz t-shirt all three nights. By mid 1988 Soga and Boyd had left the Godz and reformed Shock Tu, eventually replacing Johns with Joey C. Jones (ex-Sweet Savage, real name Joe Crabtree). Miller did not meet Jones until the day before their first show, on the occasion of this line-up's first full-strength rehearsal.

Rick Soga - Guitar

Jim Miller - Bass

Joey C. Jones - Vocals

Danny Boyd - Drums

Band relocated to Dallas, Texas in late October, 1988. In January 1989 Boyd amicably departed and was replaced by Ken Koudelka.

Rick Soga - Guitar

Jim Miller - Bass

Joey C. Jones - Vocals

Ken Koudelka - Drums

In autumn 1989, keyboardest Les Farrington was hired by Shock Tu to provide live and sampled backing vocals in an off-stage capacity. Although he liked Farrington personally, Miller said his inclusion in Shock Tu "made about as much sense as Thomas Dolby joining AC/DC," and he considers Farrington's addition "the largest contributing factor toward that line-up's ultimate demise.

Rick Soga - Guitar

Jim Miller - Bass

Joey C. Jones - Vocals

Ken Koudelka - Drums

Les Farrington - Keyboards

In December 1990, after a months-long, on-going feud between Shock Tu's record company and producer resulted in the indefinitely-delayed release of their first album, Jones and Koudelka suddenly quit the group. This line-up's last show was New Year's Eve, 1990-91. In March 1991, Miller and Soga reformed a harder-edged and keyboardless Shock Tu with original drummer Dan Boyd. However, within weeks Boyd parted ways and was replaced by Ric Martelino (ex-Shanghai). After auditioning several area vocalists, the band decided on Tim Owings (ex-Trixx), with whom they had recorded a demo shortly after their reformation in March (on which Boyd played drums).

Rick Soga - Guitar

Jim Miller - Bass

Tim Owings - Vocals

Ric Martelino - Drums

In 1994, the members of Shock Tu amicably agreed to bring an end to the band's 9 year run.

In May of 2008, original members Danny Boyd, Rikki Soga, Steve Mitchell & Todd Berry reunited with former vocalist Tim Owings to form the forth version of ShockTu. Shock Tu is currently in the studio recording past Shock Tu and new Shock Tu songs. Watch for them live in 2008.