Deep Purple/Rainbow Tribute, Perfect Strangers Rising, faithfully recreating the legendary music of heavy metal’s earliest influencers.

Based in Orange County, CA, hear Deep Purple & Rainbow delivered with a vengeance. Emulating the same tones that were made famous in the 60’s and 70’s by the original monsters of rock with the same vintage equipment. Come hear faithfully reproduced Ritchie Blackmore’s melodic guitar solos, Jon Lord’s wild organ solos on a real Hammond C3 (the same model Jon Lord of Deep Purple used), the powerful vocals of Dio-Gillan-Coverdale-Turner, the grinding bass of Roger Glover, the fancy footwork of Cozy Powell and Ian Paice.

Gudio Cossio
Founder
A talented guitar player and admirer of Ritchie Blackmore, Guido founded Perfect Strangers. A Tribute to Deep Purple & Rainbow. The band went through various iterations and performed at many venues in Southern California. Most recently, Guido has formed Perfect Strangers Rising, the next stage of his musical journey.

George Galvez
Lead Vocals
With growling lead vocals and a vast experience performing all kinds of classic rock, George brings his incredible vocal talent and stage presence to Perfect Strangers Rising. George feels that as music instrument technology has advanced, so has the use of backing tracks and harmonizers on vocals in live bands, which is not a true representation of the band. George will have no part in that, “Bull shit,” as he calls it. With George, what you hear is a REAL unadulterated voice. It is NO EASY TASK performing Gillan, Dio, Turner, and Coverdale, but George delivers with grace and power.

Sandy Hancock
Drums – Vocals
Sandy has played with countless bands and toured the USA and Canada with bands such as Joyride, 22 Jacks, Agent Orange, China White, Adolescents, Mama Hagglin, to name a few. Growing up, Cozy Powell was one of Sandy’s greatest influences. Today, Sandy tears it up live reproducing the intense double kick work behind some of the driving songs like Light In The Black.

James Palmer
Keys / Hammond / Vocals
James has played piano and keyboards his entire life. He was classically trained and performed in Bach festivals and recitals in his youth. As a teenager, he devoloped a fondess for the distinctive over driven Hammond organ sounds Jon Lord was coming out with. Coupled with a love for passages like the baroque synth solo in ‘Burn’ and James was hooked. He owns and performs on a Hammond C3, the same model Jon Lord toured with. Perfect Strangers Rising is the perfect outlet to channel his inner Lord.

Jerry Adamowicz
Bass – Vocals
Jerry is a master on many stringed instruments, bass being only one of them. Guitar, mandolin, banjo, violin, cello. If it has strings, Jerry can play it well. He also plays piano/keyboards. Machine Head, being Jerry’s favorite Deep Purple album, had a big influence on his musical tastes in his younger years. Jerry is also a talented studio engineer and composer. His work has been heard by people around the world in Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve and the American Music Awards.

We are able to travel upon request.

Available to Play:
Heartland: ID, KS, MT, NB, ND, SD
Pacific: CA, WA
Southwest: AZ

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