A Back Woods boy at heart, Doug developed his vocal talents at a young age screaming for help as he often became lost in the forest.  With strong vocals, adding the bass guitar was simply a natural direction for Doug to take.  One of the founding members of the Band, Doug has managed to keep it together over the years despite the pressures of getting up in the morning.
Originally named the “Douglas Drive Band”, (named after a road he built in a small New England town) Doug has and will always be the “Main Man” of the Drive Band with distinctive vocals, innovative bass lines and an uncanny ability to remember the lyrics.

Spike (a.k.a. Mike) was born the illegitimate child of a wealthy entrepreneur in the jungles of South Africa.  With his parentage kept secret even to this day, Spike grew up in a tree in the jungle where his love for drums was inspired and nurtured by local natives.   There he learned rhythms never heard before that today are adroitly woven into the Drive Band’s live performances.
Spike now plays the famous Electronic Roland V Drums in most all Drive Band performances but often returns to acoustic drums to re-enforce the basics he learned as a child on a hollow log.  With a metronomic firmness on drums and a strong voice, Spike not only provides an unwavering beat but also superior lead and background vocals for the band.

Spike

Stan

The oldest member of the group, Stan is truly a product of the ‘60’s era.  He began playing as the lead accordionist for the Webster Polka Band early in May of ’62.  Unable to perform on the high school basketball team he learned to play organ so that he was still allowed to attend the games to provide background music.  This became an accepted practice at the school games and was even later incorporated in professional basketball games replacing the often obnoxious bugle.
As a founding member of the Drive Band, Stan played Organ, Electric Piano and Synthesizer but had to leave the group for a short time during the mid ‘80’s (the charges were later dropped).
Returning to the band in 1990, Stan adds lead and background vocals and uses Yamaha and Korg keyboards to complete the already solid bass and drum foundation to make up the Drive band’s backbone rhythm section.

The newest addition to the Drive Band, Rob began in 2002.  At age five he started playing much to the discomfort of his neighbors deep in the south of Texas.  At 12 he began what would become a valuable collection of guitars.  Today he carefully maintains his most prized possession - his first real guitar: a 1964 Gibson SG Custom.  With two Taylor Acoustics, a Gibson Ripper Bass, and an array of Fender Strats including a Schecter and a Fender Bender, it is no secret that his collection will become even more valuable when like all rockers, he fades away.
Still hacking guitar today at 53, he met up with the Drive Band while rewiring a gazebo in the town green.  His talents blended so well with stylings of the Drive Band’s rhythm section that soon his life long desire to become an Elvis (Costello) impersonator was abandoned.

Rob

Kyle

Kyle Collins – Kyle is 47 years old and has been in the music business since 1972.  He has always dreamed of becoming a trumpet player and still does to this day. With only a short hiatus during the late '70's, his career resumed following his release from an Indiana state prison for where he served 14 years for playing in the show band Mass Production.   Expanding his horizons, Kyle joined up with the Old Plainfield Military Band and the East Woodstock Cornet Band.  He now plays “Taps” at military funerals throughout eastern CT.
Found under a pool table in 1980, the Drive band sympathetically took him in as a roadie and lighting technician. 
Kyle has owned and operated the Drive band light show since the Band found him, but also “lit up” many bands over the years such as the Boxtops, Jonathon Edwards, the Shirelles, the Dovelles, Lovells  and the Shovells.
Kyle, with his brother Dan on lead cowbell and trombone, comprise the Drive Band’s C-Section Horns, since 1995.

Dan’s age has not yet been determined as his past has been a bit shady and untraceable.  Best we can tell, he began his career in music as a Bass Drum/Triangle player for the Salvation Army in the slums of Poughkeepsie.  Moving on, the cowbell caught Dan’s attention and he has since devoted a lifetime in developing his virtuosity. (still working on it)  Dan has a day job as a wiring technician in a famous service organization who evidenced by his continued employment, have failed to determine his true identity.  The Drive Band recruited Dan in 1995 as Master Duct Tape Technician and just as the technology of the field progressed, he also progressed and was promoted to Director of Cable Ties early in 1997.  Along with that busy schedule, Dan’s melodic trombone complements Kyle’s distinctive form of musicianship as the second half of the C-Section Horns.