Bio

Bad PR is a premier cover band based out of the Raleigh, NC area. With a song list centered around 80s, 90s, and 2000s rock and pop that also includes a variety of dance, punk and country tunes from the 70s to today, there’s a little something for everyone. Whether playing a local bar, festival, tap house, corporate event, or a backyard party, we approach every event with the same professionalism and passion bringing a high energy show to every performance.

We currently play in and around the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of NC. But can be available to play other areas in NC, just let us know what you are looking for.

The Band

Jim - Guitar / Vocals

Jim was an 80s metalhead from the start and a punk rocker at heart. He started out on trumpet and organ before buying his first guitar at the age of fifteen. He picked up an issue of Guitar for the Practicing Musician and learned his first songs: Holy Diver, Johnny B. Goode, and Black Magic Woman. The music selection from there varied over the years starting with tons of 80s hair metal and eventually included a wider palette of classic rock, blues, grunge, punk, and pop.

Jim's been playing the Raleigh music scene for over twelve years with bands such as Flawed Logic, Three Beer Sally and Tortuga Stone and even showing up as a guest vocalist or guitarist for a few other local bands.

At every performance, it’s about connecting with the crowd and getting to know the fans. That’s his source of energy - it’s what keeps him coming back for more. He's never found an IPA he didn't like and is always happy to share a few drinks with new found friends at each show and contemplate whether or not Daniel Larusso might actually have been the bully in The Karate Kid.

Mike - Bass / Keys / Vocals

Originally from the Syracuse New York area, Mike learned guitar and piano from his parents. His father played guitar in a pop band locally and both his mother and grandmother showed him how to play piano.

Mike joined up with a local rock band, Exposure, in 1988 and they stayed together for seventeen years. Playing keyboards, guitar and bass guitar, which was his first instrument of choice. Exposure were weekend road warriors playing over one hundred gigs per year and gained popularity playing songs from Springsteen to Pink Floyd. In 2005 they opened up for The Fabulous Thunderbirds as well as The Charlie Daniels Band. In 2007, former lead vocalist for Anthrax, Joey Belladonna, joined as drummer and vocalist.

Moving to North Carolina in 2011, Mike played bass and keyboards for several local bands and has filled in for many bands playing either instrument. Today he's doing double duty playing bass and adding some tasty keyboards to Bad PR helping to help the songs sound bigger and even more powerful.

Keith - Drums / Vocals

Keith G joined Bad PR, a rock/party/dance cover band based out of the Raleigh, NC area, as drummer in 2025. He currently plays with Keith G duo, Humble Braggers, Mike Gangi, Steve Vee & Company, and formerly for Byzon Iz Pyzon and Voice of Reason. He has album credits with Cher, Michael Bolton, CyCurnin (The Fixx), has worked with songwriters Desmond Child (Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Kiss), Diane Warren (Lady Gaga, Faith Hill, Celine Dion); The Graces - w/ Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go’s), Meredith Brooks, Gia Ciambotti (Bruce Springsteen); Engelbert Humperdinck, Junior Wells w/ Paul Shaffer.

As an Emmy nominated and award winning video/audio producer, Keith G directed and edited music videos for Ariana Grande, music editor/composer/mixer/voice overs for hit TV shows, including Yu-gi-oh!, GI Joe, Ultraman, Beavis and Butthead, various documentaries for History Channel & Discovery Channel, promos for HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, thousands of TV/radio ads (AT&T, Coke, Mastercard), corporate videos (Hersheypark, Energy Transfer, Sunoco), live shows, webcasts, podcasts, Hollywood movies and trailers.

Keith G is a singer-songwriter, and also composes music for commercials/corporate videos, including working with Lawrence LT Tibbetts, along with top cheerleader Tracy TL Tibbetts, to co-write the Bands and Clubs of the Triangle theme song.

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