An Epic Standard
An Epic Standard is a local three person band from Paradise, California. The members are Sean Martin (Guitar, Vocals), Derek Haigh (Bass, Vocals) and Marcus Hardy (Drums).
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
We sorta came out of another band called Potential Defect. Derek and Sean wanted to play a different style with a new badass drummer named Marcus (he doesn't like to brag and he did NOT write this).
The Band had a fairly successful time over the summer, and has continued to practice and develop. Each member continues to grow-what is in the future?
Derek and Sean go Crazy Acoustic
Marcus Sings, plays the piano, and drums!
Many other developments possable!
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We have the sickest shows if you ever come to one you will be in awwww. Many people say that Sean and Derek are in the air more than on the ground. We mostly play...anything give us an e-mail if you need us to play in the Paradise Chico area.
Your musical influences
Sean-Finch, Underoath, Copeland, Emery
Derek-Underoath, Number One Gun, Silverstein, Emery
Marcus-Dream Theater, Dave Matthews Band, Rush, FATA
What equipment do you use?
Cheap stuff...cept for Marcus' drum set and cymbals...which he incidently spent way too much money on...see his bio for a gear list.
Derek has a fender rumble 100 and a fender standard percission bass
Sean has a nice fender half stack and Yamaha Guitar.
We also just recently started to incorporate some piano to our songs and to a few covers. A Casio WK-1830 keyboard is used for this.
Anything else?
We just recorded a six song EP "Everything Counts", these six new studio recorded songs are now up here at our soundclick site.
We just finished recording one of our best acoustic songs. We don't know if we are going to realease it quite yet- the song is called "Butterfly Smak"
