Boston Natives Put Accent on Bluesy Rock : The members of the Burbank-based Hookers live in the same house and speak the same language.

More than 100 years ago, Horace Greeley gave Americans a direct order to go West. People are still listening and obeying, including the Burbank-based Hookers, five new Californians who rock hard, but talk funny.

“We’re all from Boston except the drummer, who’s from Brazil,” guitarist and vocalist Jimmy Giglio said during a recent phone interview. The other band members are Justin Lyons (vocals), Michael Lyons (bass, vocals), Claudio Mattios (drums) and Chris Jones (guitar, vocals).

And they will be making their Vampyre Lounge Cafe debut Saturday night in Simi Valley. The venue is an all-ages hangout, home to industrial-strength coffee.

“We came out here because the scene is here,” Giglio said. “During the earthquake, my girlfriend started screaming, and I just grabbed her. We lost a couple of windows, and our P.A. fell over, but nothing serious. Other than that, California was pretty much the way we thought it would be.”

Naturally, after forming the band in California, the first thing the band members did was contract that inevitable musical malady, the dreaded creative differences. Then it was time to begin looking for new members.

“We were looking for a singer; we were checking out all kinds of singers,” Giglio said. “One night last October, we were doing this blues gig and Justin came up and did a couple of songs. Justin is Michael’s younger brother; he’s only 21 but when he got on stage, there was no longer any question about it.”

Now they all live in the same house, and most of them speak the same language, which at times seems to be different than the one Californians speak.

“You people have the accents out here, not us,” Giglio said. “Different parts of Boston have different accents. I’m from South Boston, which has the hardest accents. They say ‘ gee-taaah ,’ you know.”

People may laugh at those Boston accents, but nobody laughs when they play those gee-taaahs. The Hookers do that roadhouse rock with a bluesy base; these are guys who have heard the Stones, Aerosmith and the Black Crowes before.

“Some people hear the name Hookers, and they think of fishnets and lipstick, but that’s not our vibe at all,” Giglio said. “We’re an R & B big-beat kind of rock ‘n’ roll band with a punk side. But we’re still developing. We all have different musical influences. I grew up listening to Dixieland because my dad was a Dixieland banjo player.”

These Hookers are no strangers to the streets. They’ll go anywhere--even Simi Valley, not a place anyone is yet comparing to Hollywood, Seattle or Manchester as a musical mecca.

“We won the Battle of the Bands at Cheers about a year-and-a-half ago, I guess. We got a few hundred bucks and a Japanese guitar. The guys in the band gave me the guitar because I booked the gig, so I traded it with some money for a great old Telecaster,” Giglio said.

And although Simi has been good to them, the Hookers, Giglio said, are ready for any and all area codes.

“We’ll go anywhere--San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Diego or Simi Valley. A lot of bands stick within a 10-mile radius. Not us. We’ll do anything. You have gas money, we’ll play.”

The band has a new three-song tape they’re trying to shop. In the meantime, according to Giglio, they’re cranking out new songs.

“We have 25 songs since October, all originals. We do covers; actually, we do some cover gigs once in a while. We don’t want to end up as some Las Vegas working band, but sometimes we’ll go to some roadhouse-type bar and do four or five sets. We just go to play because that’s how you learn,” Giglio said.

“We’re gonna keep playing and see what happens. We don’t want much. Just give us a CD and a van.”

Details

* WHAT: The Hookers, Broken Silence.

* WHERE: Vampyre Lounge Cafe, 665 E. Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley.

* WHEN: Saturday, 9:30 p.m.

* HOW MUCH: $3

* FYI: 526-3264