They were an unknown and forgotten potential as a group. From the streets of a town in West New York - New Jersey, emerged a group of friends whose diverse backgrounds brought a diverse collection of art and music as well as unfinished concepts that would have landed them a business opportunity that never came to be in the early 2000's. Despite their short term line up, the multi cultural group of friends left a legacy of memoirs, photos, audios and some footage that is available all over the internet on what it was like growing in the late 1990's until their parting ways in the early 2000's.
It all started sometime in 1994 West New York, New Jersey, a town that neighbors the township of Weehawken, North Bergen and Union City. The school was Public School # 2 managed the principal Mr Mario Capozzi and vice principal Mr Anthony Ferraignolo. A fifth grade class under the tutelage of Mrs Anastasia Olivero (Stacy Olivero) had students Angel Davila, Miguel Nunez, and Fernando Gonzales seeking to establish some kind of group or band based on their common likings: Comic Books, Cartoons, Rock, Alternative Pop Music and Hip Hop. In Fernando's book "The King Of Nowhere" , he recalls that he and his friends had a fascination for video games. "I think it was a time that I wasn't happy with the weird bullying situation I had with Frank Gioia, Dave Vega, and the things Andy Guevaria was doing to those who were not part of his group - Angel said something that we need to form a group that could counter their toxic attitude and we can just welcome those who needed a peaceful side of things. No bullying no confrontation nonsense. I agreed but it took us a while what to make the group have a meaning." Long time friend of Gonzales, Vicky Kusnecova, affirmed that the mid 1990's were mixed and turbulent with the advent of Hip Hop reaching the mainstream market. Artists such as Junior Mafia, Ruff Riders, Wu Tang Clan, Tupac , Notorious B.I.G outnumbering rock acts like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots just to name a few. During Mrs Olivero's 5th grade year to Mr Glen Rome's 7th grade year, the first stages started as the original group of friends were engaged in tv , movie, musical ideas that would enable them interact with masses to what people in the post 2000's era would know as social media.
Other sources from the Memorial High School class of 2001 said that around 1996, the group of young 13 and 14 year old teenagers were fans of Duran Duran when "white lines" was released in 1995 for its combined rock meets rap musica fusion. It was the first rap rock song at the time that was played on New York Radios such as K-Rock, Z100, and 95.5 PLJ. It was during that time Angel Davila sought to pursue writing poetry after being inspired by Nirvana, Deftones, Green Day and Limp Bizkit. Miguel Nunez began to experiment sound sampling with his Casio keyboard, and Fernando Gonzales was inspired by Bernard Edwards, Powerstation and took on to play the bass guitar. In 7th grade there was an introductory program called the "Peer Club" which was promoted by a 4th grade teacher named Mrs Palmeri after the West New York Board of Education wanted the Peer Club to exist in every public school the towns of NJ. Miguel Nunez and Fernando Gonzales enlisted. There was a trip made by the Town sponsored where all schools would meet and gather to engage into outdoor sports and social events. It was during that moment Fernando and Miguel befriended other classmates from #1, #3, #4 , #5 and Harry L Bain schools. During that moment of hyped chemisty Miguel and Fernando exchanged a lot of common intellectual grounds with future Memorial High Schools such as Talita Sardeli, Tamara Gonzalez, and Tina. When 7th approached the end of the academic year, Fernando quit from the Peer Club. Victoria Kusnecova stated "He felt non compatible with his classmates at the time and very uncomfortable that Frank Gioia was there as he believe a bullying hypocrite shouldn't be part of this interactive diverse group, so Nando's plan was to rejoin the Peer Club in high school and being part of the group of new friends he met from the other schools" At the start of the scholastic year on September 1996. The line up of Miguel, Angel and Fernando expanded... There was an arrival or first appearances of new classmates: Bruce Sierra, Oscar Gonzalez and Jose Gonzalez. It was during that brief time in September Phillip Vargas transferred to another school and was never heard of again. Throughout the 1996-1997 year under the academic room teacher Mary Anne Metzger, the 2nd early stage of the band resumed. In the beginning of their musical identification, the band pursue an array of sound experimentation consisting sampled keyboard tracks that contained drum samples and about 3 or 4 songs emerged and remained untitled. SInce there was no professional equipment, the band began to record their demos on cassette tape and an early version of Windows 95 sound recorder. Among the ideas for the album is that they wanted to invite people from other schools, there were speculations and their classmates: Nicole Santa, Zoraida Espinoza, and Aylin Alonso were singers and it sparked an idea for a future collaboration. It would later be discovered that sometime in 1998 and 1999 that the 3 females were in fact lead singers. The band started to network with other people of their age outside public school #2, Angel Davila was starting to join sunday classes, Bruce Sierra and Jose Gonzalez were practicing track course training and also guitar classes after being influenced to listening 92.3 K-Rock Radio playing Nirvana, Korn, Blink 182 and Foo Fighters music. The group participated with the class of 1997 several Town related events such as "We The People 1997", "Music Rehearsal For Mr Capozzi Farewell 3 tracks", the Annual track & field competition for spring of 1997. By November 1996, Fernando Gonzales and Miguel Nunez as Duran Duran fans received a tape demo from TV Mania got a fanzine sample of an album titled Medazzaland. It was during the time that they were gradually drawing art after being inspired from Marvel Comics' series "Heroes Reborn", but after listening to Rap music and AC DC , they felt they can produce a musical demo that consisted of introducing the concept of featuring not just a lead vocals but a series of other singers in each track while also producing a rap rock concept album. Around december 1996 , it was on a phone call that Miguel, Angel , Bruce and Fernando began to discuss the direction of their creative group and to defer their comic book, website social media idea and pursue some musical demo productions for the summer of 1997 as the band began to be inspired from several radio stations playing throughout New York city. 1997 started and on January the founders Angel Davila, Bruce Sierra, Miguel Nunez, Fernando Gonzales, Jose Gonzalez along with Oscar Gonzalez embarked on a journey to attempt making a small independent comic book company called "The Free Agents Online" it consisted of parody imaginary storylines involving the schools of new jersey. Although this was a pre-photoshop era where the team were around the age of 13 they didn't have a budget to buy graphic design tools for their concept arts and thus their comic book art was cancelled. Some of the "Medazzaland Fire in Heaven" comic book art design exists but were shelved as the team began to record some rock songs. On january until february or march of 1997, the group was given access to attend NJ Nets games at the meadowlands stadium as Fernando's father was an employee and was given seasonal tickets. During that same time, there was also the first concert some of the band members attended: U2 Popmart Tour. Fernando and his childhood friend Walter Bonilla were impressed by the 2 hour rock concert and some of the footage was featured to be seen in local tv networks that enabled Bruce and Angel to listen some of the songs and felt that the rock experimental direction should go with their musical orientation but with an edgier and rockier sound. Bruce Sierra started to be more grunge guitar riff driven in some of his personal jams, Angel commenced sultry poetic gothic themed lyrics, Oscar Gonzalez who was once seen as a quiet and shy member became a confident technical drummer using a 8 piece drum kit, Jose Gonzalez was practicing his acoustic guitar and singing skills, Fernando Gonzalez then chose to remain playing funk and punk rock bass styles in the style of Bernard Edwards (band Chic) and John Taylor (Duran Duran), Miguel Nunez grew further perplexed in sound effects and decided that some ambient sounds could fit in some of the future songs they would start in April. Between the end of February to March of 1997, Fernando Gonzales attended Martial Arts courses in 61st street Bergenline U.S Kim Academy and befriended two additional talented friends to the FreeAgent / Bergenline Band line up: Steven Perez and Erwin Armijos. It became apparent that Steven Perez and Erwin Armijos were also neighboring classmates from Public School #4 and attended the Peer Club, the chemistry and respect led them to be introduced to the rest of the band. Steven Perez and Erwin Armijos had originally concepts similar to arts and music such as a comic book project titled "Adventures of Super Wetback" that was meant to be a comical parody akin to Pee-Wee's Big Adventure1986 film.
It was around April of 1997 the band got together in a studio in North Bergen known as "Equipped Rehearsal Studios" located in Tonnelle Ave Road. The band brought down the instruments and created the early stages of their rock rap album. On the first session the tracks were: (1) Out Of The Shadows - described as a song originally called "butt naked" and was meant to be a duet between Angel Davila and Fernando Gonzales, about overcoming a girl taking advantage of someone. (2) Plastic Girl - It was a jam about sang by Angel citing a t
They were an unknown and forgotten potential as a group. From the streets of a town in West New York - New Jersey, emerged a group of friends whose diverse backgrounds brought a diverse collection of art and music as well as unfinished concepts that would have landed them a business opportunity that never came to be in the early 2000's. Despite their short term line up, the multi cultural group of friends left a legacy of memoirs, photos, audios and some footage that is available all over the internet on what it was like growing in the late 1990's until their parting ways in the early 2000's.
It all started sometime in 1994 West New York, New Jersey, a town that neighbors the township of Weehawken, North Bergen and Union City. The school was Public School # 2 managed the principal Mr Mario Capozzi and vice principal Mr Anthony Ferraignolo. A fifth grade class under the tutelage of Mrs Anastasia Olivero (Stacy Olivero) had students Angel Davila, Miguel Nunez, and Fernando Gonzales seeking to establish some kind of group or band based on their common likings: Comic Books, Cartoons, Rock, Alternative Pop Music and Hip Hop. In Fernando's book "The King Of Nowhere" , he recalls that he and his friends had a fascination for video games. "I think it was a time that I wasn't happy with the weird bullying situation I had with Frank Gioia, Dave Vega, and the things Andy Guevaria was doing to those who were not part of his group - Angel said something that we need to form a group that could counter their toxic attitude and we can just welcome those who needed a peaceful side of things. No bullying no confrontation nonsense. I agreed but it took us a while what to make the group have a meaning." Long time friend of Gonzales, Vicky Kusnecova, affirmed that the mid 1990's were mixed and turbulent with the advent of Hip Hop reaching the mainstream market. Artists such as Junior Mafia, Ruff Riders, Wu Tang Clan, Tupac , Notorious B.I.G outnumbering rock acts like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots just to name a few. During Mrs Olivero's 5th grade year to Mr Glen Rome's 7th grade year, the first stages started as the original group of friends were engaged in tv , movie, musical ideas that would enable them interact with masses to what people in the post 2000's era would know as social media.
Other sources from the Memorial High School class of 2001 said that around 1996, the group of young 13 and 14 year old teenagers were fans of Duran Duran when "white lines" was released in 1995 for its combined rock meets rap musica fusion. It was the first rap rock song at the time that was played on New York Radios such as K-Rock, Z100, and 95.5 PLJ. It was during that time Angel Davila sought to pursue writing poetry after being inspired by Nirvana, Deftones, Green Day and Limp Bizkit. Miguel Nunez began to experiment sound sampling with his Casio keyboard, and Fernando Gonzales was inspired by Bernard Edwards, Powerstation and took on to play the bass guitar. In 7th grade there was an introductory program called the "Peer Club" which was promoted by a 4th grade teacher named Mrs Palmeri after the West New York Board of Education wanted the Peer Club to exist in every public school the towns of NJ. Miguel Nunez and Fernando Gonzales enlisted. There was a trip made by the Town sponsored where all schools would meet and gather to engage into outdoor sports and social events. It was during that moment Fernando and Miguel befriended other classmates from #1, #3, #4 , #5 and Harry L Bain schools. During that moment of hyped chemisty Miguel and Fernando exchanged a lot of common intellectual grounds with future Memorial High Schools such as Talita Sardeli, Tamara Gonzalez, and Tina. When 7th approached the end of the academic year, Fernando quit from the Peer Club. Victoria Kusnecova stated "He felt non compatible with his classmates at the time and very uncomfortable that Frank Gioia was there as he believe a bullying hypocrite shouldn't be part of this interactive diverse group, so Nando's plan was to rejoin the Peer Club in high school and being part of the group of new friends he met from the other schools" At the start of the scholastic year on September 1996. The line up of Miguel, Angel and Fernando expanded... There was an arrival or first appearances of new classmates: Bruce Sierra, Oscar Gonzalez and Jose Gonzalez. It was during that brief time in September Phillip Vargas transferred to another school and was never heard of again. Throughout the 1996-1997 year under the academic room teacher Mary Anne Metzger, the 2nd early stage of the band resumed. In the beginning of their musical identification, the band pursue an array of sound experimentation consisting sampled keyboard tracks that contained drum samples and about 3 or 4 songs emerged and remained untitled. SInce there was no professional equipment, the band began to record their demos on cassette tape and an early version of Windows 95 sound recorder. Among the ideas for the album is that they wanted to invite people from other schools, there were speculations and their classmates: Nicole Santa, Zoraida Espinoza, and Aylin Alonso were singers and it sparked an idea for a future collaboration. It would later be discovered that sometime in 1998 and 1999 that the 3 females were in fact lead singers. The band started to network with other people of their age outside public school #2, Angel Davila was starting to join sunday classes, Bruce Sierra and Jose Gonzalez were practicing track course training and also guitar classes after being influenced to listening 92.3 K-Rock Radio playing Nirvana, Korn, Blink 182 and Foo Fighters music. The group participated with the class of 1997 several Town related events such as "We The People 1997", "Music Rehearsal For Mr Capozzi Farewell 3 tracks", the Annual track & field competition for spring of 1997. By November 1996, Fernando Gonzales and Miguel Nunez as Duran Duran fans received a tape demo from TV Mania got a fanzine sample of an album titled Medazzaland. It was during the time that they were gradually drawing art after being inspired from Marvel Comics' series "Heroes Reborn", but after listening to Rap music and AC DC , they felt they can produce a musical demo that consisted of introducing the concept of featuring not just a lead vocals but a series of other singers in each track while also producing a rap rock concept album. Around december 1996 , it was on a phone call that Miguel, Angel , Bruce and Fernando began to discuss the direction of their creative group and to defer their comic book, website social media idea and pursue some musical demo productions for the summer of 1997 as the band began to be inspired from several radio stations playing throughout New York city. 1997 started and on January the founders Angel Davila, Bruce Sierra, Miguel Nunez, Fernando Gonzales, Jose Gonzalez along with Oscar Gonzalez embarked on a journey to attempt making a small independent comic book company called "The Free Agents Online" it consisted of parody imaginary storylines involving the schools of new jersey. Although this was a pre-photoshop era where the team were around the age of 13 they didn't have a budget to buy graphic design tools for their concept arts and thus their comic book art was cancelled. Some of the "Medazzaland Fire in Heaven" comic book art design exists but were shelved as the team began to record some rock songs. On january until february or march of 1997, the group was given access to attend NJ Nets games at the meadowlands stadium as Fernando's father was an employee and was given seasonal tickets. During that same time, there was also the first concert some of the band members attended: U2 Popmart Tour. Fernando and his childhood friend Walter Bonilla were impressed by the 2 hour rock concert and some of the footage was featured to be seen in local tv networks that enabled Bruce and Angel to listen some of the songs and felt that the rock experimental direction should go with their musical orientation but with an edgier and rockier sound. Bruce Sierra started to be more grunge guitar riff driven in some of his personal jams, Angel commenced sultry poetic gothic themed lyrics, Oscar Gonzalez who was once seen as a quiet and shy member became a confident technical drummer using a 8 piece drum kit, Jose Gonzalez was practicing his acoustic guitar and singing skills, Fernando Gonzalez then chose to remain playing funk and punk rock bass styles in the style of Bernard Edwards (band Chic) and John Taylor (Duran Duran), Miguel Nunez grew further perplexed in sound effects and decided that some ambient sounds could fit in some of the future songs they would start in April. Between the end of February to March of 1997, Fernando Gonzales attended Martial Arts courses in 61st street Bergenline U.S Kim Academy and befriended two additional talented friends to the FreeAgent / Bergenline Band line up: Steven Perez and Erwin Armijos. It became apparent that Steven Perez and Erwin Armijos were also neighboring classmates from Public School #4 and attended the Peer Club, the chemistry and respect led them to be introduced to the rest of the band. Steven Perez and Erwin Armijos had originally concepts similar to arts and music such as a comic book project titled "Adventures of Super Wetback" that was meant to be a comical parody akin to Pee-Wee's Big Adventure1986 film.
It was around April of 1997 the band got together in a studio in North Bergen known as "Equipped Rehearsal Studios" located in Tonnelle Ave Road. The band brought down the instruments and created the early stages of their rock rap album. On the first session the tracks were: (1) Out Of The Shadows - described as a song originally called "butt naked" and was meant to be a duet between Angel Davila and Fernando Gonzales, about overcoming a girl taking advantage of someone. (2) Plastic Girl - It was a jam about sang by Angel citing a t
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They were an unknown and forgotten potential as a group. From the streets of a town in West New York - New Jersey, emerged a group of friends whose diverse backgrounds brought a diverse collection of art and music as well as unfinished concepts that would have landed them a business opportunity that never came to be in the early 2000's. Despite their short term line up, the multi cultural group of friends left a legacy of memoirs, photos, audios and some footage that is available all over the internet on what it was like growing in the late 1990's until their parting ways in the early 2000's.
It all started sometime in 1994 West New York, New Jersey, a town that neighbors the township of Weehawken, North Bergen and Union City. The school was Public School # 2 managed the principal Mr Mario Capozzi and vice principal Mr Anthony Ferraignolo. A fifth grade class under the tutelage of Mrs Anastasia Olivero (Stacy Olivero) had students Angel Davila, Miguel Nunez, and Fernando Gonzales seeking to establish some kind of group or band based on their common likings: Comic Books, Cartoons, Rock, Alternative Pop Music and Hip Hop. In Fernando's book "The King Of Nowhere" , he recalls that he and his friends had a fascination for video games. "I think it was a time that I wasn't happy with the weird bullying situation I had with Frank Gioia, Dave Vega, and the things Andy Guevaria was doing to those who were not part of his group - Angel said something that we need to form a group that could counter their toxic attitude and we can just welcome those who needed a peaceful side of things. No bullying no confrontation nonsense. I agreed but it took us a while what to make the group have a meaning." Long time friend of Gonzales, Vicky Kusnecova, affirmed that the mid 1990's were mixed and turbulent with the advent of Hip Hop reaching the mainstream market. Artists such as Junior Mafia, Ruff Riders, Wu Tang Clan, Tupac , Notorious B.I.G outnumbering rock acts like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots just to name a few. During Mrs Olivero's 5th grade year to Mr Glen Rome's 7th grade year, the first stages started as the original group of friends were engaged in tv , movie, musical ideas that would enable them interact with masses to what people in the post 2000's era would know as social media.
Other sources from the Memorial High School class of 2001 said that around 1996, the group of young 13 and 14 year old teenagers were fans of Duran Duran when "white lines" was released in 1995 for its combined rock meets rap musica fusion. It was the first rap rock song at the time that was played on New York Radios such as K-Rock, Z100, and 95.5 PLJ. It was during that time Angel Davila sought to pursue writing poetry after being inspired by Nirvana, Deftones, Green Day and Limp Bizkit. Miguel Nunez began to experiment sound sampling with his Casio keyboard, and Fernando Gonzales was inspired by Bernard Edwards, Powerstation and took on to play the bass guitar. In 7th grade there was an introductory program called the "Peer Club" which was promoted by a 4th grade teacher named Mrs Palmeri after the West New York Board of Education wanted the Peer Club to exist in every public school the towns of NJ. Miguel Nunez and Fernando Gonzales enlisted. There was a trip made by the Town sponsored where all schools would meet and gather to engage into outdoor sports and social events. It was during that moment Fernando and Miguel befriended other classmates from #1, #3, #4 , #5 and Harry L Bain schools. During that moment of hyped chemisty Miguel and Fernando exchanged a lot of common intellectual grounds with future Memorial High Schools such as Talita Sardeli, Tamara Gonzalez, and Tina. When 7th approached the end of the academic year, Fernando quit from the Peer Club. Victoria Kusnecova stated "He felt non compatible with his classmates at the time and very uncomfortable that Frank Gioia was there as he believe a bullying hypocrite shouldn't be part of this interactive diverse group, so Nando's plan was to rejoin the Peer Club in high school and being part of the group of new friends he met from the other schools" At the start of the scholastic year on September 1996. The line up of Miguel, Angel and Fernando expanded... There was an arrival or first appearances of new classmates: Bruce Sierra, Oscar Gonzalez and Jose Gonzalez. It was during that brief time in September Phillip Vargas transferred to another school and was never heard of again. Throughout the 1996-1997 year under the academic room teacher Mary Anne Metzger, the 2nd early stage of the band resumed. In the beginning of their musical identification, the band pursue an array of sound experimentation consisting sampled keyboard tracks that contained drum samples and about 3 or 4 songs emerged and remained untitled. SInce there was no professional equipment, the band began to record their demos on cassette tape and an early version of Windows 95 sound recorder. Among the ide
