Standing In The Sun
Breaking the sound barrier STANDING IN THE SUN exceeds the boundaries of contemporary music pushing the parameters of standard rock sounds into the new millennium. Launching into sonic overdrive these modern music makers have transcended traditional musical genres into a realm all their own. Light years ahead of the music moguls corporate formulated swill this controversial new group has crossed uncharted territories of psychedelia and funk-rock coming up with a refreshing new sound that has captured the imagination audiences and astounded critics thru out cyber space. Hailed to be the first meaningful band to come along in years, these troubadours of the new millennium are burning a path straight up to the top of the charts. Find out why an avid army of supporters and the new music reviews have dubbed this modern music outfit THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, MUSIC FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM or THE NEXT GENERATION IN MUSIC...(Reviews from Audio Galaxy, AMP3 and Rolling Stone Review).Band/artist history
Emerging from the cutting edge of the ever changing musical horizon the controversial new group STANDING IN THE SUN began as a musical experiment and developed into a rave new sound. Eclectic and starkly original the fresh and aggressive style paved the way from club and college circuit to opening for major international recording artists. Their dynamic and independent approach gained support of several studios, managers, engineers and executives in the music industry providing the bulk of resources in recording of the band's self-titled CD. After the pilgrimage to "The City of Angels" and moving from tour bus to new headquarters at WHOLE TRACK STUDIOS recording began and performances in the local venues. The glut of L.A. bands and radio acts covering the heavy rhythm based parodies prompted STANDING IN THE SUN to take a forward look into the current music scene. Throwing aside the trip-hop beat crazed contortions back dropped in white noise experimentations and transient interludes STANDING IN THE SUN took to the studio developing a bold new sound in the next evolution in modern music. With a freshness and energy so lacking in today's music STANDING IN THE SUN evokes a powerful and emotional performance in what is certain to be some of the strongest recordings of today. Breathing new life into a stagnant music scene bloated by a corporate formula already top heavy with profits this revolutionary new act incorporates their innovative new sound in an emotional and moving series of tracks becoming the fastest rising new music on the web.Have you performed in front of an audience?We play about 200 shows a year, primarily at colleges, theaters and clubs. We come from being mainly a live band. For us the fans are the show. A lot of the places we have played have had a hard time keeping the doors on the place, they always seem to get ripped off the hinges. It's an odd thing. We don't have an answer except that possibly the owners should look at getting better hinges on the doors.
Your musical influences
Standing in the Sun is a Post Modern Alternative rock band. We get our sound by driving beats and rhythms, slippy psychedelic guitars, grinding ethereal synths, futuristic samples, and concentrating on moving and interesting lyrics, vocals we can feel.What equipment do you use?
We use Mesa Boogie Triaxis, Old Fenders and Vox Amps, Eden Bass Equipment, SWR cabinets, Fenders and Gibsons and Yamaha guitars - Gretsch Drums, AKAI MPC 2000, Korg Z1, Triton, Roland VDrums, S1000 Sampler, Decimator, Akai DR16 - Roger Mayer electronics.Anything else?
Listen to the music and decide for yourself what the influences are. What really matters is does the music influence you and how? A great majority of our influences are not musical in nature. Things like the drugging of children in our schools and the fact that there are people in existence that believe that drugs can fix problems. The lack of any effective solutions to the problems we all face living today- the fact that most of what we learn about in our schools does little to prepare us to deal with anything in the real world. About rising crime statistics coupled with the fact that the authorities we have entrusted to deal with these problems are completely ineffective and have done little or nothing to abate the rising tides. If the medical and psychiatric profession is really trying to heal then why have the hospitals gotten so huge? And why are there are more diseases and ill than ever? If the product of the courts and police is to reduce crime then why is there more of it than ever? These are simply a few of the things we see. We feel we would be remiss if we did not say that seeing these things - witnessing the steady decline did not ultimately influence our music. The 1st step to handling a situation is knowing something about it. You won't read about it in the running dog press that write the story before leaving the news room. You won't read about it in magazines where the advertisers dictate the content What you do read about are children shooting up schools but never that every one of them were under a psychiatrists care and on psychiatric drugs. Assassination of Bobby Kennedy, John Lennon and EVERY serial killer had one thing in common...psychiatric patients on psychiatric drugs...and when President Regan emptied the asylums where the victims of psychiatric abuse were housed only then was their a homeless problem. To control these people psychiatric drugs were introduced; 40% of the homeless in downtown Los Angeles are on Ritalin as well as 5,000,000 school children. Makes you wonder why the answer sought is chemical straight jackets and control. Psychiatry in its desperate effort to get a result is only able to cause an effect on its patient without ever curing. When you consider the escalating problems in the courts, schools, homes and crime directly correlate with the amount of tax payers money funding Psychiatrists and their institutions to handle the problem you may come up with entirely different perspective then what has been fed to you in the "news". Psychiatry has always been state supported from the concentration camps of WWII Germany and South Africa's apartheid as well as the camps in Kosova. All had one thing in common .... psychiatrists were behind every one of these situations and now it turns out even Hitler had several psychiatrists drugging and whatever else. Sounds far fetched?? That's the idea...Psychiatry has always been about mind control from the CIA experiments of the 50's and 60's to the Russian Pavlov and his dog. With STANDING IN THE SUN there are no musical boundaries or rules we are influenced by every musical style and sound and noise in existence. From screeching busses and trains, to everything on the radio. These all produce musical ideas for us and this is what you will find as the influences in our music. This song was written out of a firm belief that something can be done even tho "the authorities" out of their own personal interest would have you believe otherwise.All comments (2)
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