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Rich Lehman
Drums, Backing Vocals
 Rich
began playing professionally at 13, and continued into high school, winning
talent shows and a "Battle of the Bands." One of these bands did
some nightclub work, despite obvious legal issues.
Moving on to Virginia Tech, he teamed up with Mike
LaBarre in a band called "Outrage." This popular fraternity,
bar, and overall campus party-band played "classic" rock ranging
from Grand Funk Railroad to The Knack.
Back in Richmond, Rich played briefly with Ragdoll, a local
hard rock band as a sit-in for their temporarily disposed drummer. From
there, he "somewhat shamefully admits (however with a slight
grin)," to a brief stint with the speed metal band Malevil, then on to
Naked Reign. This band played original rock 'n' roll, but with a heavy
emphasis on blues - in the vein of such supergroups as Led Zeppelin and
Aerosmith. The band had a lot of promise until ego problems got in the way.
 After Naked Reign, Rich performed with Chapter 11, including ex-Outrage
bassist LaBarre and former "Battle of the Bands" rival Chris
Buerkley. Chapter 11 played an entire set of Zeppelin and other sets of
mixed covers. As the name perhaps foreshadowed, the band ran out of money
and subsequently broke up, leading Rich to focus on a non-musical career for
a while.
With the exception of playing one gig at the Flood Zone with Soul Shaker,
Rich had basically given up playing in bands until mid '97 when Buerkley
called with the idea to start a funk band. Rich was hooked on the idea, and
contacted LaBarre to start the quartet that would become SoulerCoaster.
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