After a 15 year hiatus, the long awaited return of Skip Shaffer is here!
Back with a vengance, bringing new music that includes classic melodic hard rock reborn and southern rock created with a modern day flavor. Classic rock that has Tesla soul, Skid Row bite, Black Sabbath riffs, Mötley Crüe sleaze, and Aerosmith versatility. Southern rock that introduces Molly Hatchet to Blackfoot with a touch of ZZ Top bringing Lynyrd Skynyrd along for the ride. Skip's new music is all slammed into razor-sharp 2025 production.
Skip Shaffer is a Pittsburgh-born, road-hardened songwriter who writes the kind of songs you can crank up with the windows down, or sit back and reflect how the story reflects on your own life experiences.
Armed with blazing guitars, powerful hooks, and lyric content that rival late-night confessions and life tales, Skip delivers raw cinematic stories of love won, love lost, and the open road that waits in between.
From the heartfelt professing of “You’re The One” to the defiant swagger of “I Own The Road” and new tracks like the soon-to-be-released wedding-ready anthem “Welcome to the Family” show that Skip continues to create stories of the moments people want to remember forever, then turn around and write the ones they’re trying to outrun. From his local Southern Rock roots with Magnum in the 70's, moving into hard rock with Crusayter, then taking his music west to the metal days with Valhalla and CSB in the 80's Los Angeles scene... Returning home in the 90's recording the Acoustic Duo album by Skip/James then The Christmas Experience Album bringing Christmas classics into the modern day, the new music from Skip Shaffer and Friends continues to build a legacy that can be enjoyed by anyone who appreciates music.