Ricky Knuckles Barone
Drums
Pure kinetic chaos with hidden metronomic precision. Wide-eyed even by cartoon standards. Drummed on every desk through four years of cartoon high school. Considers the diner record something to beat.
Backstory
Grew up in a cartoon neighbourhood where the streets had actual rhythms — clicking manhole covers, steam pipes, garbage can lids in perfect time. Slick found him drumming on a fire escape with two pencils and a pizza box. The audition lasted four seconds.
Gear
Vintage dry-tuned Ludwig-style kit. No reverb, no triggers. Cracking rimshots, hi-hat barely open. Plays extremely hard.
Visual Identity
Medium build, wild-eyed, pompadour perpetually disheveled from the last set. Sleeveless white tee, suspenders, cartoonishly muscular arms. Small bandage on one knuckle at all times. Nobody asks why.