Because we liked the sound of it. We tried to ride the wave of bands like Blink 182, Eve 6, 98(degrees), Maroon 5, and other bands with numbers (but not U2, they are way cool).

We only play live. We do this in the Bloomington area. This one time, when we were playing in Indy with JAM at Deer Creek (Verizon) we simply rocked. Like, real rock man. It was b@d @ss!

We think there are a couple of things that the internet has done to change the music industry:

Making music vanish into thin air
The most important thing MP3 did was to usher in the final format for all media: pure digital. Music is no longer tied to physical objects. Sure, if MP3 hadn't come along when it did, some other codec would have become the standard for the burgeoning digital music scene. And yes, I know that in some ways, the CD can be considered a digital format, and it predated MP3. But that doesn't change the fact that the engineers at Fraunhofer were the first to invent an algorithm that makes a good compromise between file size and sound quality--the properties that enabled music to be zipped around the Internet without sounding like it was coming through a tin can with a string attached to the back. Maybe that's why it still remains the de facto term for referring to digital music, such as Kleenex for tissue, Xerox for copier machines, and in some cases, even iPod for MP3 player.

Bringing the major labels online
When MP3 playback software started to go mainstream in the late '90s (for hard-core techies, that is), music fans worldwide suddenly had a digital lingua franca for music. I could rip a CD to MP3 in California, and you could download and play it in Sri Lanka, thanks to the MP3 standard. If music fans hadn't figured out a way to use the Internet to trade music online, it would have taken the record labels years, or perhaps even decades, before they would have started selling music over the Internet. Large-scale piracy by "average" consumers told the music industry in no uncertain terms that folks were ready to acquire music online--legally or otherwise. The labels were forced to react, and there are now a variety of legitimate online music stores to choose from that offers music from labels large and small alike.

Speeding up the Internet, enriching the Web
I'd be willing to wager that at least 30 percent of broadband upgrades from 1999 to 2004 were due in part, or wholly, to MP3s. Although high-speed Internet connections improve Web surfing considerably, it's not enough for most people to justify spending the extra dough. When the original Napster suddenly allowed people to download thousands of songs for free (remember, this was before there were legitimate digital music sources), upgrading to broadband suddenly added up to a significant savings. This effect reached beyond music since connection speeds and the Web have a "chicken and egg" relationship. Once people upgraded to broadband, Web designers could pack more text, images, and multimedia onto Web pages since more people had the fast connections they required. Aside from rich page design, broadband upgrades also enabled other high-bandwidth applications, such as the Internet phone services that use VoIP, flash animation, streaming video, online gaming, and so on. This would have happened without MP3, but with it, the transformation happened much more quickly.

Giving bands a platform
We're all used to being able to hear music samples at band URLs and larger sites such as MP3.com, so it's easy to forget that if someone wanted to replicate that process 10 years ago, he or she would have had to convince you to dub a tape and send it through the mail for free. As a musician, you would have certainly ignored this request, unless it came from someone with label control or another form of clout. Today, people sample music millions of times every day, and no one has to do much work in order for that to happen, thanks mainly to the MP3 codec. We're all the better for it, although certain elite hipsters probably wish they were still the only ones who'd ever heard Hatebeak.

Shifting power from Sony to Apple
Apple's iPod became the digital music world's first mass-market success for many reasons. I certainly count the iPod's and iTunes' support for regular old MP3 files among them. Before either product even ran on Windows, both offered full support for the MP3 codec. Sony, on the other hand, wasted years marketing MP3 players that, well, didn't play MP3s. Instead, they played files secured by Sony's copyright protection technology. Consumers voted with their dollars and snapped up Apple's iPod in droves while largely ignoring Sony's offerings. Sony learned its lesson and now offers MP3 support in all of its players--but the damage was already done. For now, Apple controls the digital music market, especially the portable sector that Sony's electronics division used to own, thanks to its popular Walkman line. The consumer electronics and recording industries have given tech companies a seat at the bargaining table after seeing what an outsider such as Apple managed to achieve with the MP3 format.

Heck yes we would. Wait, we already do! The BC Records Inc label picked us up back in 02 and we have been cranking out badd-stuff since then.

Dude 2:22 has played with some classy acts. Check out the stuff that we did with JAM. But how did we get to where we are? We think it is important to know how music has evolved over the last 100 years so that you can see where we are coming from.

Throughout the twentieth century, many trends developed. These trends permeated all the different areas of music and did not specifically happen at a given point in time or take on a strict form. Some of these trends were incorporated together into the same piece of music. The twentieth century broke all the musical rules of the past and let one form and style flow right into another. It is still important to note that although much change came with the turn of the century, Romantic music continued throughout this era, and remained the dominant form for quite some time.
Impressionism

Impressionism was the very first trend of significance which moved away from Romanticism and towards Modern era characteristics. Though this type of music was programmatic, it still started the movement away from the Romantic era. Impressionistic music was vague in form, delicate in nature, and had a mysterious atmosphere to it.

Expressionism

Although not as important as Impressionism, Expressionism was a prominent early twentieth century movement. Stylistically, expressionistic music was very atonal and dissonant. It was a German movement away from French Impressionism. It was emotional and had a somewhat Romantic feel to it.

Neo-Classicism

Neo-Classicism can be defined as the new classical movement. This movement started in the early 1920s and continued to be a leading musical movement throughout the century. This trend is still popular today. Neo-Classicism is a movement which incorporated the music of the Classical era, in terms of clarity of texture and objectivity. This trend not only based its music on the Classical era, but it also mixed Renaissance, Baroque, and some modern trends in with it.

Jazz

Jazz is a musical movement which dominated the 1900s. It is mainly an American form and remains popular to this day. Jazz can be defined as anything from popular music of the twentieth century to the improvised sounds of a dance band. Some prominent forms of Jazz throughout the century have been Ragtime, Blues , Swing , Dixieland Jazz, Bop, and Boogie-Woogie. Since the second half of the 1900s, new forms and techniques of Jazz have come about. These include funky hard bop regression, cool jazz, progressive jazz, and rock and roll. Generally these newer styles have a greater range in harmony, rhythm, and melody, and are less oriented to dance music. They also sometimes borrow techniques and forms from classical music, and vice versa, as modern classical music often contains Jazz elements.

Aleatory Music or Chance Music

Aleatory music is an extremely random style of music. The composer and/or the performer will randomly pick musical materials and make it into a piece of music. There are no rules to this form of music, and, thus, any kind of music can be created as a result. After the composer writes a piece in this unusual style, the performer then improvises on it, to make it stranger and more unique. Some techniques involved in aleatory music are having the audience improvise along with the performer, using electronic or computer media, or reading poetry somewhere inside of the work.

Electronic

The newest trend of the twentieth century lies in electronic music. Electronic music takes electronically generated sounds and turns it into a work of music. Like conventional music, electronic music has four general properties to it. These are amplitude, pitch, duration, and timbre. Electronic music is typically composed on either a synthesizer or a computer. The most current trends in this form of music show electronic music in combination with Jazz

We love Fresno. We don't really know why. It is a nice little spot but there really isn't anything "great" about it.

Guitars, amps, vocals, mics, drums, drum-machine, piano, horns, strings, banjo, beat-box, etc..