We’re a cover band from the Springfield, MO area playing tunes from every era in music. Mostly we do rhythm and rock, but we’ve been know to get funky too. Check out our schedule and drop by and see us!
If you’re interested in booking us for a gig, drop us a line using the contact form at the bottom of the page. We’re available for parties, weddings, fundraisers, pub crawls... you name it.
| Date | Location | Time |
|---|---|---|
| September 16th, 2011 |
Cartoon's | 9pm - 1am |
| September 27th, 2011 |
Big Cedar Lodge | 5pm - 8pm |
| December 3rd, 2011 |
The Midway - Mountain Grove, MO | 9pm - 1am |
| December 31st, 2011 |
The Midway - Mountain Grove, MO | 9pm - 1am |
| January 20, 2012 |
Private Party | 8pm - 12am |
| February 18th, 2012 |
Sertoma Chili Cookoff 2012 - Beer Garden Stage | 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
| February 25th, 2012 |
Knightyme Bar - Mardi Gras! | 9pm - 1am |
We know a lot of songs. Like, a lot of songs. Way too many to put on this site. So, click on the button below to download a PDF list of everything in our repertoire.
Click any song in the playlist below to hear a sample.
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Short and sweet bio! Born in Los Angeles, CA... don't remember the year, too long ago! I've sang in three southern gospel quartets, performed at the forum in L.A. for the Lakers, also Angel's Stadium, Knott's Berry Farm, Disneyland & much more. I have played in alot of different bands and played drums for a local band called A.P.B. I presently do alot of solo work and play with ER and now... I have the privilage of singing and playing with SOCKMONKEY!
Ray was raised in Oklahoma City, the land of Reba McIntyre and Bob Wills, so playing music was inevitable. Hanging out as a kid with the guys that would later become the Flaming Lips and Vince Gill (He played with some friends in Mountain Smoke then he went on to join Pure Prairie League, later to just be his bad self).
He worked in the various clubs landing at the Airport Hilton, a club part owned by Doc Severenson of the Tonight Show. He played there with the New York Connection full time 4 nights a week and working studio gigs in the day.
Then he became a father and stopped playing for several years. But the urge to play stayed. After moving to the Ozarks to be close to family, after a few years, he started looking to play again.
An experiment to test the waters locally started a contemporary country unit The RedneckRockers. They performed all over southern Missouri, Arkansas and once in Memphis at the FedEx Dome.
Ray was later hired on to work with The Full Moon Blues band. They won the 2008 Lake of the Ozarks Blues Society Blues Competition to compete at the International Blues Competition. Off to Memphis to play again!
The Blues can only last so long for a guy that doesn't live the blues. After contacting some friends/musicians he had always admired for their talent, they have an ensemble of one of the best damn Dance/Party bands in Southern Missouri.
This band is about fun. Come check it out. C Ya on the Dance Floor!
Steve has played in several fairly successful bands in the Springfield area since 1972. Aquafox, Jivin’ Ivin’, Orpheus, Swingfield Spring band, Cahoots and Mdock just to name a few.
Steve is a Hammond Organ *freak* and loves that Hammond & Leslie rotating speaker sound. He’s EXTREMELY picky about it and uses only real HAMMOND organ products along with either a Leslie 122 or a Motionsound KBRM amplifier, sometimes both. This setup gives the true rotating speaker sound as opposed to the simulators found on most keyboards today.
Steve sings several of the lead vocals in the group, sharing the rest with Ellis, Stevie T and Rus. "I think SOCKMONKEY is probably one of the most promising groups we’ve ever started. Certainly the quality of the musicians is there."
I started my music career playing guitar in a praise band called Eternal Generation while going to school at Missouri State University in the 1970's. After getting thrown out of that band for behavior unbecoming, my brother and I formed a 1970's Springfield band called Studebaker Hawk that played in the area for several years. After moving to northwest Arkansas I worked in a music store called “Musician’s Pro Shop” and played in groups with several guys who went on to become members in a number of bands including the Cate Brothers and Zorro and the Blue Footballs.
After severe exposure to disco I left the music scene in the early eighties swearing I would never play again. I eventually rediscovered sanity after grad school and became part of a bunch of guys who founded a popular Springfield cover band called Cahoots playing from the late 1990's until about 2007. Since then I have played guitar and keyboards with several area bands including C Club and the Vic Vaughn Band. I love playing lead guitar and I enjoy occasional fits of insanity on piano. I have been known to sing immodestly. I play 1970's, 80's, and 90's rock with reckless abandon, and just enough R & B and funk to support my claim that I can.
I grew up in West Plains, Missouri. One day my big brother brought home an album and played it for me... It was The Who, Live At Leeds. I had never heard anything like it before. As Pete Townshend was ringing out the last notes of the song My Generation from his tortured Rickenbacker, and Keith Moon was bashing his drums into oblivion, I turned to my brother with a big smile on my face and said..."I want to do that!"
I began playing drums in the junior high school band, and continued to play throughout high school. I moved to Springfield in 1977 to continue my education at SMSU in the drafting department. In the spring of 1979 I joined a road band and spent the next 8 years playing my drums for a living all over the United States. During that time our band, called Some Peoples' Kids, recorded about two albums worth of original material.
Playing music for a living, as tough as it can be at times, was by far the best "job" I've ever had. But as they say, all good things must come to an end. In the fall of 1987 I left that band and moved back to Springfield with my family. I cut my hair... got a real job, and didn't pick up a pair of drumsticks again for many years. But the desire to play was always there, and I finally started playing my drums again several years ago. In 2006 I joined a hobby band, and have enjoyed getting back into the groove of playing with other musicians and playing gigs in and around Springfield. Then came Sock Monkey. This band is a blast! I am excited to be apart of it!
Born in Shelby County, Memphis Tennessee, home of the Blues and Sweet Tea in 1974. Although I’m not 100% sure which one of those have had a better impact on the world.Then came Rock & Roll. I spent time with relatives in the summer near Tuscumbia & Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In the song Sweet Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd famously sings “Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers”, The Swampers were the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, a group of soul, & R&B, studio musicians based out of Muscle Shoals.
All of this played a part in picking up a guitar and playing Bass, Rhythm, and Lead for several years and around the North Arkansas area performing gigs from Mountain Home to Fayetteville and many small bars in between. Starting out as the newbie in the Sock Monkeys, just getting settled. Lots of talent, lots of fun.