Year of the Dragon is Roderick Palmer's project with Dirty Walt and Spacey T. Their first EP "A Time to Love is a Time to Bleed" is now available through CDBaby.com. Release notes: Walter ?Dirty Walt? Kibby will be the first to tell you: ?I love my former group, Fishbone. I?m a founding member and I was in it to win it until recently. I wish them all the best, their success is my success. But I felt it was time for me personally to move on and try some new things.? For this multi-talented individual this includes fronting newly-reformed band Sound Barrier (widely recognized as the first successful black metal band), a solo project and?YEAR OF THE DRAGON. Year of the Dragon happened almost as an accident. Says co-vocalist Roderick ?Rodcore? Palmer, ?I also sing with Walt in Sound Barrier. We had recorded a slew of great material for that project, and had taken a break to mix it all. I had some free studio time with a friend who wanted to help us out, so I said to Walt, ?Hey man, let?s just go in and knock out a few songs. No filler, no frills.?? Dirty Walt enthusiastically agreed. The duo got in the studio with drummer John Montgomery and Spacey T, another former Fishbone soldier and founding member of Sound Barrier, who played all the guitar and bass tracks. They didn?t have high expectations other than having a little fun and just killing some time, but they were all surprised at how the recordings turned out. Sonically, there are elements of Dirty Walt?s former group in the mix, but the reggae, funk and hip-hop influences are mined deeper. They even take a chance with an acoustic song. Says Rodcore, ?We felt the need to do something stripped down, something you really didn?t see too much of in Fishbone. Since this recording was not meant to be much more than us logging studio time in, we figured it?d be fun to be more musically adventurous.? The one thing Year of the Dragon share with Fishbone is a frenetic, powerful live show. ?I?ve been doing this a long time,? says Dirty Walt, ?and I know I can?t come with anything less than what the people are used to me giving them. The shows still gotta rock hard and with hardcore intensity.? Year of the Dragon is the whole package?great songs and lively, energetic live shows from veterans in the game. Dirty Walt states it best: ?This is our year, man. We can?t lose. We won?t lose. Ya dig??