Biography
Enjoy First Rush, bringing a lifetime of experience and musical talents to the progressive rock music scene – performing at area club venues, private parties and wedding receptions. First Rush is a rock’n band that really cranks it out!
Enjoy our own original progressive rock songs with an accent on rich vocal harmonies, stand-out guitars, melodies and percussion, all performed with the collective legacy of untold decades of stage experience. Jam on our tunes, eye our pix, dig our show…
Morgan Wallace / keyboards & vocals
- Morgan Wallace is a musician, educator, producer, and songwriter. She is the Founder of the Who Is Leading? Project, Co-Producer of Music Quest’s Singer-Songwriter Showdown, and associated with Jose Aponte Music. Morgan loves collaborating with musicians & other creative types in helping fulfill their goals & making projects happen. You can find her performing at Mercury Chophouse (Ft. Worth & Arlington locations), and teaching awesome students at NAMS Frisco, as well as belting out vocals and piano with First Rush.
Chris Robinette / guitar
rem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer velit pretium euismod ipsum enim. Mi cursus at a mollis senectus id arcu gravida quis urna. Sed et felis id tempus Morbi mauris tincidunt enim In mauris. Pede eu risus velit libero natoque enim lorem adipiscing ipsum consequat. In malesuada et sociis tincidunt tempus pellentesque cursus convallis ipsum Suspendisse. Risus In ac quis ut Nunc convallis laoreet ante Suspendisse Nam. Amet amet urna condimentum Vestibulum sem at Curabitur lorem et cursus. Sodales tortor fermentum leo dui habitant Nunc Sed Vestibulum. Ut lorem In penatibus libero id ipsum sagittis nec elit Sed. Condimentum eget Vivamus vel consectetuer lorem molestie turpis amet tellus id. Condimentum vel ridiculus Fusce sed pede Nam nunc sodales eros tempor. Sit lacus magna dictumst Curabitur fringilla auctor id vitae wisi facilisi. Fermentum ege
Mark Hicks / keyboards & vocals
The son of a Louisianan French Quarter jazz pianist and a Texan rockabilly singing guitarist, Mark Hicks grew up embedded in music. He joined his first rock band as a youth after building a Heathkit Vox Jaguar combo organ kit running through a hot-wired Leslie rig that would send an OSHA inspector bolting for cover; many ensembles later in the mid 70s found him performing in the North Central Texas rock band First Rush, with which he would later sign with Polydor Records. With a day gig as a teacher, he has rejoined the reformed First Rush. Mark gigs on a Yamaha MOXF and a Nord Electro 5 through a QSC K12 amp.
Rick Johansen / drums & vocals
Rick began playing drums when he was 13. As he was growing up, he juggled his schedule between athletics and music. His first professional band was called “Saratoga”, a band that he founded along with long time friend Mike Sauce. Saratoga featured a horn section and played in clubs around Texas from the early 70’s to the mid 70’s. From Saratoga he and Mike formed the original band called “First Rush”, a band devoid of the horn section which performed many clubs and shows throughout the southwest United States from the mid 70’s through early 80’s. First Rush would later go through a name change to “Stark Ravin” to release their first single on the Polydor label. Rick then joined another popular Dallas-Ft. Worth band called “Lynx”. This time he was the new kid on the block. Lynx had already released a song on the “Refined Texas Crude” album and was opening shows for national acts as well as playing in local clubs. It was in Lynx that he hooked up with Jimmie Wallace and David Newell. He was in Lynx through the mid 80’s. Rick began a teaching and coaching career in 1979. In the mid 80’s he, along with Mike Sauce and David Newell formed a new band called “The Inflatable Dates”. They played the local club scene from the mid 80’s to early 90’s. It was at that time that Rick went on to pursue his teaching and coaching career full time. In the spring of 2007 original Glory Daze bassist Ken Johnson, the bass player from The Inflatable Dates, called Rick, Mike Sauce, and original keyboardist Mark Hicks from First Rush with the idea to get back together and perform.
Kevin Snow / bass guitar & vocals
rem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer velit pretium euismod ipsum enim. Mi cursus at a mollis senectus id arcu gravida quis urna. Sed et felis id tempus Morbi mauris tincidunt enim In mauris. Pede eu risus velit libero natoque enim lorem adipiscing ipsum consequat. In malesuada et sociis tincidunt tempus pellentesque cursus convallis ipsum Suspendisse. Risus In ac quis ut Nunc convallis laoreet ante Suspendisse Nam. Amet amet urna condimentum Vestibulum sem at Curabitur lorem et cursus. Sodales tortor fermentum leo dui habitant Nunc Sed Vestibulum. Ut lorem In penatibus libero id ipsum sagittis nec elit Sed. Condimentum eget Vivamus vel consectetuer lorem molestie turpis amet tellus id. Condimentum vel ridiculus Fusce sed pede Nam nunc sodales eros tempor. Sit lacus magna dictumst Curabitur fringilla auctor id vitae wisi facilisi. Fermentum egeick