Bill Ingham - Vocals and Guitar

Jim Duckworth - Lead Guitar

Mike Lancaster - Bass

Ted Currie - Drums


The No Fly Zone Facts & Fiction

Bill - The lead singer for NFZ, is the oldest member of the group and has often had his unique vocal styling equated to those of an early 1830's version of Willie Nelson. He produces all of the harmonies by himself using an advanced form of vocal chord manipulation and herbal medication he developed from studying ancient scrolls which he discovered deep within the desert sands of Katmandu.

Jim - The lead guitarist builds his own electric guitars from scratch and his hand crafted instruments help give NFZ that unique lead guitar sound that keeps the fans coming back for more time and time again. He actually plays the guitar left handed however via a series of electronic pedals that you will see at Jim's feet and an additional set of mirrors suspended both above and behind him, it will always appear as if he's actually playing right handed and is facing the crowd despite playing left handed with his back turned.

Mike - The bass player for NFZ is the only formally trained musician in the group and as far as we know, the only one that can actually read music and understand what all those squiggly little lines and dots mean. If you will look closely you will notice that he only has four fingers and one thumb on his left hand, thus leading him to the inevitable choice of only being able to play four stringed instruments such as the bass and cello instead of the customary six string guitar or five string banjos.

Ted - Known as the NFZ Atlanta rhythm section, is an electronics teacher and the proud father of twin future drummers who insure that he arrives to every gig at least 30 minutes later than the rest of the band and for this we are grateful. Born in a log cabin in Arizona he learned to play the drums by living among Native American Indian tribes and was once featured on the cover of "War Dance Today" magazine as the next who's who in the world of tom-toms.

No Fly Zone Trivia
The Vocal harmonies you hear generated by the band actually stem from the microphone being plugged into a Digi-tech VL4 Harmonizer. The VL4 allows for 50 pre-set voices and 50 user defined voices and accompanying guitar sounds to be selected depending on the style and choice of the vocalist. At the push of a pedal, the band is able to select vocal harmonies in the styles of Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Eagles and many others. This helps maximize the tip jar funds in terms of decreasing the number of "shares" required to go to each member of the band and still providing a great sound to our fans. Besides, back up vocalists are over rated.

Yes there is music on the music stands, well Bill's at least. As the band continuously updates their sets and adds or subtracts new music to keep a fresh sound for the public, the music is changed out. Since Bill, the oldest member of the band has a memory shorter than most single notes, we found it best to just go ahead and give him the words and chords on paper for each performance. The rest of us set up music stands and binders too but we all have blank pages, this makes Bill think we all do it too.

If you look on the floor in front of the lead guitarist you will see a menagerie of pedals, plugs, wires and lights all neatly contained in a nice custom carrying case. As you listen note the changes in sound, attenuation, intonation, resonance, chorus, reverb, phasing, electro-harmonics, fibrillation and vacillation, all of which have nothing to do with that box on the floor or the pedals therein. That all comes from the voices inside your head. The box however does control the lead guitarist's sounds in terms of being able to sound like Santana lead, 50's rock and roll or a 12 string guitar. In other words, it's highly technical stuff that only Jim understands and the rest of us can only marvel at.

50% of the band has twins. You have to guess which 50% but it's pretty easy to tell if you look closely. One of those with twins plays bass and the other one plays drums.

75% of the band has children still living at home so they have to balance work, baseball, dance recitals, band camp and learn all the new music for the band. 25% of the band has no more children at home, although he does have a 20 year old that still lives upstairs and should get his own place and move out and get a wife and a dog and insurance and leave his mom and dad to enjoy alone time more.