Ding Dong
Hey we are ding dong welcome to the show
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
November, 2003
The band, unnamed, is created. Original members are Andy, Warren, Rory, and Jeff
December, 2003
Jeff leaves the band, its not for him, switches to playing acoustic guitar
January, 2004 - Present
Dwight enters the band as our singer, complications erupt and Dwight is booted from the band. We are covering songs to build our skills, hopefully will start writing this summer.
June 5th 2004
Our first "real official' gig in Andy's basement. Although we still don't have a singer we were able to get a couple friends to fill in for some songs. Had a great time and are looking forward to some upcoming small gigs.
Late June-Early July
We start writing and take the focus off covers. Two songs in the making and will be completed within july hopefully...anticipating two upcoming gigs on July 10th (Andy's cousin's engagement party) and July 25th (Warren's family get together).
Late July 2004
July 10th gig for Andy's cousin's engagement party was crappy, we played in a small closed room for like 20 something people...a little too up close and personal. July 25th gig at Warren's house started out good, we played two songs and were about to start the third when a rock struck Warren's grandpa in the head after ricochetting off his house and his dad's arm, soon after a old man drove up telling us that our music was too loud so our concert was over pretty much...so that sucked.
Late August 2004
We talked to a few singers through email and one singer Dwayne talked to us for months, so finally we had some free time and jammed with him. The first two songs he sang we thought he sucked pretty harsh, but he sang a few more and we were impressed, he was singing out of Andy's karaoke machine so the sound quality wasn't the greatest. So we set up another jam with him, this time he brought his own little amp, and we finally got to hear the real dwayne...we all agreed that he was not what we were looking for so we let him go.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
no we don't even have a singer. Can anyone sing?
Your musical influences
Tool, Incubus, Smashing Pumpkins, Coldplay, Radiohead, John Mayer, Led Zep, Dave Matthews, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sparta, At the drive in, the mars volta, foo fighters, queens of the stone age
What equipment do you use?
marshall amp, Epiphone Les Paul, Digitech rp50 pedal, BOSS OD and DD6 pedals, Ibanez bass, BOSS OD bass pedal, Yorkville bass amp, CB drums, and Sabian Cymbols.