Trout Club Community Inspires Trout Club Band
Four-Piece Rock Band Members Have Been Friends Since Elementary School in Santa Barbara
When your band forms in a place called the San Marcos Trout Club, why not honor the mountain community’s natural inspiration by taking that unique moniker as your own? That’s what Quique Hernandez-Black, Malcolm Bobro, Cedric Bobro, and Kai Zheng decided to do by calling their rock band Trout Club.
Friends since attending elementary at the Open Alternative School in Santa Barbara, the four — all former SBCC students, and three of four attending UCSB — started playing classic rock cover songs together about five years ago. “Eventually, after grinding cover song after cover song into the ground, we took to writing our own original tunes,” said Zheng, who plays lead guitar and keyboards; Hernandez-Black handles lead vocals and banjo, while Malcolm plays bass and Cedric bangs the drums.
They released the EP Welcome to the Trout Club in December 2019, and graced such stages as SOhO, Earl Warren Showgrounds, and Cold Spring Tavern. Their single “Dreamboy,” which came out in March 2020, tallied nearly 8,500 downloads, and Peyote Pictures produced their first music video “Only a Boy” in late 2020, clocking more than 1,200 views so far.
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