Bio's
ANGELO CIANFROCCO, KEYBOARDS, HARMONICA & VOCALS
My interest in playing piano started when I was 5 years old. As a teenager I started playing in local “Rock n Roll” groups in Upstate N.Y. through a booking agent friend of my mothers. During the 60’s keyboards played a big roll in top 40 music. I was in groups called, “Stick and Stones”, “The Gas Cap”, and “Cross town Traffic”.
I still have original recordings saved from these groups. During my college life I started playing with the drummer of “Cross town Traffic” and a blind lead guitarist, Andy Rebscher. We formed a group called “Shawcross”. In an A circuit band, we traveled through out the New England states. (NY, NJ, PA, RI, VT, CT) We played many big functions and shared stages with groups like “Ronnie Dio and the Prophets”, now just known as “Dio”, “The Buoys” who had a hit called “Timothy”. We had an opportunity for becoming recording artist, but our agent wanted us to change our group name. Our Lead guitar player got sick and the rest is history.
After leaving the road and entering into family life, I played in a few part time groups with musicians I met in my past. One group called “Fun Factory” kept very busy during the disco era. After a summer off during 1977, I was asked to join a 50’s & 60’s show group called “Johnny and the Hot Rods”. I didn’t realize how popular the oldies would become. We played every weekend until June 1, 1980. My family and I moved to Brevard County Florida. My piano and synthesizer were the last things on and the first things off the moving truck. After such a popular response to the oldies I tried to organize and play with groups in Brevard doing the same. I played with “Collector’s Item”,” Windfall”, “Jade”, “Kixx” and “Blues Control”. I also backed up Joe Davis as “The Drifters” for a short while, jammed with the “Platters”, “Coasters” and “Johnny Thunder”. Along the way I had put together a “Chubby Checker” routine. I have used the routine in the groups I have more recently been associated with.
I joined Rick Brensinger and Kevin Ackerson in the early 90’s. Rick had been calling me to play in a duo. We were called “Unlimited”, as we started getting requirements for group type gigs, we added bass players and called ourselves “INSIDE OUT”. Rick and I developed a “Blues Brothers” routine wherein I play the part of “Jake”.
We often add members such as female vocalist, horns, steel drums, or whatever the occasion may require. The same members of “Inside Out” are also know as “Saturn V” when performing atKennedySpaceCenter functions. One other project members of the group and myself have been a part of is a group called the “Elkerly Brothers”. We formed with other members of the Titusville Elks lodge to raise money for Children’s Hospital “Harry Anna” and successfully donated $25,000 in one year as a result of performing at central Florida Elk’s lodges. I credit my success and the great times I have experienced, to the talented people I have been so fortunate to work with, my friends, and family.
Angelo P. Cianfrocco
CHUCK MILLS, BASS, GUITAR, KEYBOARDS & VOCALS
Chuck Mills started playing guitar in the 60’s and has played leadguitar with several bands. While living in Virginia, Chuck’s group backed up country singers Red Sovine and Penny DeHaven at local venues as well as playing many clubs in the Tidewater area. Chuck then spent many years in Ohio playing gigs with a group called “Xpress” throughout the central part of the state.
In 1988 he moved to Florida working for NASA at KSC and helped form a group called “Looking Back”playing local jobs. He also helped form a show band sponsored by the Titusville Elks Club, called the “ElkerlyBrothers” for the purpose of raising money for the Elks Children’s Hospital.
Chuck joined “INSIDE OUT” in the mid 90’s as a bass guitar player and displays his fondness for the oldies every time. He also plays some keyboard and does a little with background vocals.
Kevin Ackerson, Drums & Vocals
Kevin Ackerson was born in 1964. From an early age he showed an interest in playing drums partly due to his dads band always practicing at the house. By the age of six he joined in a duo called "The J & K Express" with his sister who played organ at the time.
They played several talent shows always winning first places at their elementary school and soon the quest for stardom began. By the age of eight Kevin began to show other interests in playing trumpet, taking lessons and soon became very proficient on that instrument as well. Going to District and State solo and ensemble, symphonic and jazz band contests soon became the forefront of his musical career. He never lost interest in playing drums though. As he approached his teen years, Kevin began going to gigs with his dad who had also been a Semi-Pro drummer since his early teens and had met Rick Brensinger in the early 1970's forming a band called The Sunshine Express. At first, Kevin helped set up and tear down equipment at the gigs but after a while his dad purchased some auxiliary percussion equipment and he soon became part of the rhythm section. By the early 1980's, Kevin's dad soon fell ill to some heart conditions that prevented him from continuing as the drummer for Ricks group. Rick, seeing that Kevin had grown to be such an integral part of the group, asked him to be the drummer of the group. And a career in music was born.
For the past twenty some odd years, Kevin has played in several groups with Rick. The refreshing sounds of "Lymon", "Unlimited", "Saturn 5", "The Elkerly Brothers Show Band", and "Inside Out" ...just to name a few. They have also player together on several projects ranging from 50's/60's shows with Elvis impersonators, to fund raisers and benefits. He also plays in another group called "No Pressure" playing more harder 80's metal to today's top alternative.
Kevin says," the past 25 years have been a blast and I wouldn't change this for the world. I will continue till my heart beats no more".