We all really like The Royal Tenenbaums, so the name is a reference to that.

We're all friends, we all wanted to start a band, and that's about as simple as it gets.

We all have pretty eclectic tastes, and besides that, I subscribe to the mentality that everything you hear in some way subconsciously influences you. So we're influenced by everyone from Miles Davis to Christina Aguilera to Mozart to that guy from Korn. Although we don't necessarily like all the stuff we've been influenced by.

Guitar, bass, drums, voice. Sometimes piano.