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  KROQ 106.7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Ronnie Vannucci was a student of classical percussion at UNLV and worked as a photographer at the Little Chapel of the Flowers and as a pedicab driver at the Desert Passage mall inside the Aladdin Hotel.
After watching a few of their early shows, Vannucci acknowledged that the group was very green and would need a lot of work to become a polished act.
After Vannucci sold his house, and the band found themselves without a garage to rehearse in, it was around this time that they took to sneaking into UNLV's music rooms to practice, where Vannucci was attending college.
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 The KillersDrummer, Ronnie Vannucci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
As a small child, Ronnie Vannucci banged on the washer and dryer, sometimes the fridge, even his aunts old piano, singing and humming in the garage.
Ronnie Vannucci: We are playing the San Diego street scene and for now, that is about as close to LA as we're getting.
Ronnie Vannucci: I was studying music at UNLV and taking pictures at a wedding chapel on the strip.
www.worldwithoutborders.com /archives/ronnievannucci051705.shtml   (1070 words)

  
 UNLV Magazine | Spring 2006 | Alumni Profile | Killer Chops
That was 2002, when Ronnie Vannucci was still a music major, studying classical percussion and trying to strike sparks with this new band he’d joined.
Vannucci started private lessons as a child but took a break from them after a couple of years.
Vannucci, who was listening to a lot of classical music at the time, was in awe.
magazine.unlv.edu /Issues/Spring06/30killer.html   (946 words)

  
 reviewjournal.com -- News: In Depth: killers rising
Vannucci, 29, and singer Brandon Flowers, 24, are the married members of The Killers.
Vannucci, then 26, was studying classical percussion at UNLV, working as a wedding photographer at the Little Chapel of the Flowers and looking for a new gig after lengthy tenures playing drums for local ska band Attaboy Skip and indie rock outfit Expert on October.
Vannucci told friend Alexis Thornton and the others there with him he had been invited to be The Killers' new drummer.
www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2005/Sep-18-Sun-2005/news/3337781.html   (2517 words)

  
 The Killers - Interviews, magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, MTV, internet
Ronnie: At first we were playing shitty support acts at no name clubs.
Ronnie: We are not obsessed with The Smiths.
Ronnie: Playing live shows is probably the best for me. What is good about that is it's true for the most part.
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 Ronnie Vannucci Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a kid, Vannucci claims to have banged on every object in his parents' house like a drum.
Vannucci started teaching private lessons while drumming in a variety of bands that played everything and everywhere, from a desert show to a wedding.
Later, it was Ronnie's idea to sneak the Killers into the Alta Fam Fine Arts Building on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus for practice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronnie_Vannucci   (330 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Jarret Keene
It was in one of his classes that he would meet Michael Valentine; through Valentine, he would meet Ronnie Vannucci, the future drummer of The Killers.
Keene and Vannucci would play together in another band, before Ronnie decided to take his place as the Killers' drummer.
Ronnie told me point blank that he didn't have the time to read it.
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 Las Vegas Weekly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The recruitment of Vannucci not only gave the band a precise, innovative, hard-rocking backbeat, but also a strong tie to the local music scene.
Vannucci formerly pounded the skins for a number of Vegas bands, most notably the mid-'90s ska-metal favorite, Atta Boy Skip.
The last time I saw Ronnie was in the halls of the fine-arts building at UNLV when I congratulated him on his new gig with the Killers.
www.lasvegasweekly.com /2004/12/23/noise.html   (825 words)

  
 The Killers (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ronnie Vannucci was a student of classical percussion at UNLV to become a teacher and worked as a photographer at the Little Chapel of the Flowers and as a pedicab driver at the Desert Passage mall inside the Aladdin Hotel.
In 2001, Flowers was abandoned by the first band that he was in—a synth pop band known as Blush Response—after he declined to move with the rest of them to Los Angeles, California.
After Vannucci sold his house the band found themselves without a garage to rehearse in and took to sneaking into UNLV's music rooms, where Vannucci was attending college, in order to practice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Killers_(band)   (2646 words)

  
 The Killers on Tour (for Tonksy ) - PlayingItLoud.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Vannucci says he didn't see getting praise from Britain as too bizarre.
Vannucci says the album's leadoff track, Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine, best epitomizes the album, with its strong melody and explosive chorus.
Vannucci says the group is writing a little along the way, but don't expect a new album anytime soon.
www.playingitloud.com /showthread.php?t=242   (674 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com - News - Killing Time
Killing is my business...: Mark Stoermer (from left), Ronnie Vannucci, Brandon Flowers and David Keuning are the Killers.
As one of three Nevada natives in the combo (odd-man-out Keuning is an Iowan by birth), Vannucci speaks from experience.
Thanks to his bartender father, whom he describes as "a pretty weird dude, although he's calmed down some," Vannucci was exposed to a wide range of tunes during his youth.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2004-07-22/music2.html   (870 words)

  
 TeenMusic.com - The Killers Drummer Speaks Out at Media - The Killers, Ronnie Vannucci, Brandon Flowers
The Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci has hit out at the media for glamourising frontman Brandon Flowers while ignoring the rest of the band.
Since achieving worldwide success with their debut album Hot Fuss in 2004, singer Flowers has been relentlessly pursued by music journalists in the UK, leaving the remaining three band members mildly irritated at being snubbed.
Vannucci says, "The British press like to hold the lead singer up on this big pedestal away from the rest of the band.
www.teenmusic.com /d.asp?r=133147&c=1020&testcookie=1&comments=1   (222 words)

  
 The Rebel Yell: The Rebel Yell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Valentine and Keene developed a friendship and together formed a band with Ronnie Vannucci, Mike's brother and the future drummer of the yet-to-be-formed Killers.
As Keene's band split apart, Vannucci joined a band that had been gaining local scene attention; that group was The Killers.
With their success, Keene was beginning to see a rift occur in his friendship with the new rock star drummer Vannucci.
www.unlvrebelyell.com /print_article.php?ID=9404   (768 words)

  
 Radioalice.com - Alice @ 97.3 San Francisco - The Killers
After trying out a couple of different bass players and drummers, Brandon and Dave met Ronnie Vannucci, a photographer at the Little Chapel of Flowers and student of classical percussion at UNLV, and Mark Stoermer, who was making ends meet as a medical courier (blood, urine, the odd body part - all glamour).
Writing in 120 degree temperatures in the garage that became their rehearsal room provided a suitably intense hot-housing effect.
And when they couldn't get into the garage they'd use Ronnie's spymaster knowledge to gain mid-night access to the facilities available at his University's music school.
www.radioalice.com /pages/76592.php   (1050 words)

  
 Enjoy the Ride F*cker! The Ronnie Vannucci Jr. Fanlisting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Who/What: A fanlisting for Ronnie Vannucci of the Killers.
Head Killer Brandon Flowers expressed his support for Razorlight and Kasabian, saying of the latter, "They just made a great new album." Meanwhile, Vannucci continued his praise for Marshall, naming her first for his own fantasy festival, followed by Tom Waits.
But she lost the invite when, after Vannucci picked Tom Petty, Marshall pointed out that Petty was already on the Vegoose bill.
fan.nothingbutsong.org /ronnie   (206 words)

  
 CMT.com : The Killers : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Brandon Flowers (vocals/keyboards), David Keuning (guitar), Mark Stoermer (bass), and Ronnie Vannucci
Both of them were huge Oasis fans, and within weeks the two composed their soon-to-be cult hit, "Mr.
Brightside." Stoermer, a former medical courier, and Vannucci, a classical percussion major at UNLV, soon joined the fray that became the Killers.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/killers_the/bio.jhtml   (467 words)

  
 MTVAsia.com - Welcome!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Killers plan on hitting the studio with the British pair sometime in January, though there's no tentative release date for the new album, especially since Vannucci is quick to add that they're in no real rush to record anything.
The group had a brief war of words they had with labelmates the Bravery a few months back, and just last week there was another feud, this one between the Killers and recent Island signees Fall Out Boy.
And for Vannucci, a beef-free diet would be a very good thing.
www.mtvasia.com /News/200510/04012591.html   (554 words)

  
 THE KILLERS/HOT FUSS LP - elusivedisc
After trying out a couple of different bass players and drummers, Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning met Ronnie Vannucci, a photographer at the Little Chapel of Flowers and student of classical percussion at UNLV, and Mark Stoermer, who was making ends meet as a medical courier.
In between these couldn't-make-it-up day-jobs (Brandon, a bellhop at the Gold Coast Hotel; whilst Dave worked for Banana Republic) the newly-complete Killers set to writing what we can assuredly state to be one of the most exciting debut albums you'll have heard in a very, very long time.
It was during these pressurized sessions that The Killers began to live up to the expectations commanded by the roots of their name and wrote the bulk of the songs that were to comprise their debut album, the fittingly-titled Hot Fuss.
www.elusivedisc.com /prodinfo.asp?number=ADALP40125   (399 words)

  
 Killers Drum Kit Up For Auction - Q97.9 Hit Music
Now through November 3rd, an autographed drum kit singed by Vannucci is up for auction at eBay.
Even better than owning a drum kit signed by the Killers' drummer will be the awesome feeling you get knowing that the proceeds from this auction are going to the American Red Cross hurricane relief efforts.
For more information or to bid on the Ronnie Vannucci-autographed drum set, head to eBay.com.
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 GIANT Magazine | The Killers: Dressed to Kill
Standing in front of Flowers in the flesh, you’d never believe such an epic voice—which has evolved to resemble Bono’s in terms of power, David Bowie’s in terms of quirkiness and Freddie Mercury’s in terms of range—could come out of his pocket Hercules-sized body.
I threw out, as a side note, that I also played bass because I had a feeling that eventually they’d be changing bass players.
When they got Ronnie, who I knew as the best rock drummer in Vegas, I got the chills.
www.giantmag.com /2006/09/music/dressed-to-kill/1   (1573 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - The cure for common pop-rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The perpetrators: Singer Brandon Flowers, 23; guitarist Dave Keuning, 28; bassist Mark Stoermer, 27; and drummer Ronnie Vannuci, 28.
Killers: Mark Stoermer, left, Ronnie Vannucci, Dave Keuning and Brandon Flowers.
The spoils: Boasting huge choruses, irrepressible energy and a glam sheen, The Killers' catchy, smartly crafted pop-rock quickly caught the attention of tiny London label Lizard King.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2004-07-12-verge-killers_x.htm   (421 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Killers find roots in 'Sam's Town'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
He sees a similar inertia in modern rock and is puzzled when appetite and drive are viewed as unhealthy traits.
After wrapping up 400 shows late last year, Flowers, guitarist David Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci returned to Vegas and started recording with producers Flood and Alan Moulder.
You go into a diner or a 7-Eleven, and there are pictures of Sinatra and Elvis on the walls.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2006-10-04-killers_x.htm   (810 words)

  
 The Killers - Music Downloads - Online
Brandon Flowers, David Keuning, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vannucci,
Part new wave and part new-millennium post-punk, this Las Vegas foursome originally got together in 2002.
High praise from press and fans over early music, including the Bruce Springsteen-inspired lead single "When You Were Young," led up to the highly anticipated release of Sam's Town in early October 2006.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/103/888/0/1038880.html   (370 words)

  
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Drummer Ronnie Vannucci told ModernRock.com about the band’s unauthorized use of UNLV facilities where Vannucci was a music student: “I’d like to make clear that no instruments were mistreated during this time, as we are, and continue to be, respectful, professional and, last but not least, resourceful musicians.”
The Killers was born in Las Vegas, Nev. and include vocalist/keyboardist Brandon Flowers, guitarist David Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci.
On another occasion the band barely made it to the studio to record “Change Your Mind” because of forest fires in Simi Valley, Calif. The worst incident occurred on a trip to the UK when their plane hit an air pocket and started freefalling.
www.atech.org /class/archives/04_05/nov/november_killers.html   (593 words)

  
 Guitar Sheet Music - The Killers - Hot Fuss (Recorded Versions For Guitar - Guitar)
Browse All Piano Music Composed By Ronnie Vannucci.
This music has a difficulty rating of 3 on a scale of 1 to 6 with 6 being the hardest.
Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine - Performed by: The Killers - Composed by: Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer, and Ronnie Vannucci - ©2004
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 Iconator.com >> Icons >> Music >> Ronnie Vannucci of The Killers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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