About Us

Leo was raised mostly in Northern    California as an Army Brat. When musician friends discovered he had a 5 octave range, singing along with Whitney Houston, they put him to work singing in their Rock bands. Since 1989 he has been singing in Power, Hair, Thrash and Classic Rock bands and is often called to fill in for other singers. Some of his past credits include Justice, Rexxen, Unwanted, CRUSH, Flashback and now The Radio RIots.

John started playing drums and seeing national acts around 10 years old. He  started bands and collaborated with several local bands including Lawless, Psycho Holiday, and Pain Theory that all went on to record self titled albums.
On his musical journey he started working for stage companies like R A Reed and Peter Corvalis productions. There he started setting up stages, high climbing, rigging, follow spot lighting, and drum tech for several national acts. These included Paul McArtney, Richard Marx, Warren Zevon, Rod Stewart, Yes, ZZ Top, Great White, Michael Schenker group, and many more.

Over the last several years his focus has turned to working with The Radio Riots band where he is actively booking, setting up gear, playing drums, and constantly adding new lines of promo swag!

Troy was born at a very young age, and his musical journey began shortly after. Years of piano lessons provided Troy with a very keen ear for playing songs after only hearing them once or twice, which came in very useful later in life when going to band rehearsal after not practicing. After several years of lessons, he tired of the piano. Not of playing it, but changing all those strings. Troy started playing guitar after eavesdropping on a few of his brother's guitar lessons and seeing that there were only six strings to change, and later switched to the bass to further reduce string maintenance to four. Please don't tell him that a wash tub bass has only one string. 

Blaise was raised in a family of working musicians. He followed his father and uncle to all the gigs and got exposed to the live music scene in Hawaii at a very young age. When he was 10 years old, he started taking guitar playing seriously. Influenced by guitar players like Jimi Hendrix, Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and his uncle Clayton Apilando.

He started his first band in high school and would later join many other bands playing thrash and heavy metal. At the same time, he lived a different life playing Rock, Blues, Country, and Hawaiian music with his dad’s band for parties and festivals. Later, he would find himself playing in the local Portland metal scene with a band called Nihilist Youth and played drums in a band called Karmedy.

In 2013, Blaise joined the military and left the music world. In late 2025, he would run into Steve Esnard at Beaverton Guitar Center who told him about a band called the Radio Riots and that they are auditioning guitar players. "And just like that, I'm playing live music again!"