Still Division
3
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Apology Apology
Undone Undone
Theory of Everything Theory of Everything
No irony. Just high energy, impassioned, hard rock that chooses substance over form in the tradition of Pearl Jam, Jeff Buckley, and early Radiohead. With eloquent, articulate, heart-in-hand lyrics spat with fierce conviction from a throat raised on Prince and Stevie Wonder.Band/artist history
I'm getting too old for this shit.
It gets in your blood though. It's like lead poisoning. They can find it in your hair follicles after you die.
So, anyway, there was birth and time and growth and death and your standard tortured adolescence, but always music (Beautiful Music!). Hip-hop and R&B and then the whole Seattle thing. And I moved to Boston and met Chris at a coffee shop in Marblehead and Mike (thegreenandyellowtv.com) and Alexx to follow. And then there was a rock band (Better World Karma) and a white vinyl single and some radio play and an invitation to The WAAF Rumble. But when you�re young things fall apart too easily, and they did, but I learned a lot.
And so on to New York and more time and more death, but new life too. Dean and Eric and Jake and another band (Lifemachine) and some more time and a CD (The Sound and the Fury) and then some more time and birth and change (as always) and then just me, alone, and some demos, and then nothing for a while.
Meanwhile there was the stock room at a Kinney Shoes and Shaun (Who I�ve heard tell was a vocalist at this point) was on a ladder and Jamey (who played drums) came in and a conversation about music (Beautiful Music!) ensued, and then there was some time and very little movement, and still the same conversation about music (always music), and the same ladder ( and Jamey still had his coat on). And eventually they left the Kinney�s stock room and they played some music, together, and listened to music, together, and saw a lot of music, together, but mostly, they were (and are) friends. Because music is amazing; but only as a means to an end.
And somewhere in here Jamey gave up the drums for guitar (I don�t know why, but I�m glad he did) and Shaun took up the bass. (Which seems to have worked out as well)
Then there�s Charlie. And it had only ever really been Charlie and his guitar, or Charlie and Floyd or the Beastie Boys or The Allmans or Clapton or Miles and such., always kinda just Charlie and music. And Jamey met Charlie through a friend and Charlie had been playing with Kiley for a little while, and Jamey started playing some music with them and told Shaun there might be something to it. And so he joined in. And they all met Tom through a friend of Jamey�s and Tom had been playing since he was a kid and had been in all kinds of bands before (Rock, Folk, Reggae-Rap-Funk, Ska, Blues, he�d even played in a Theater Pit.) and he agreed it was something that was worth working on and agreed to join in, and they all played music, together.
And that was Mercury Fall.
And then it wasn�t.
BUT THEN�
Then there was an ad in Craig�s list. And it seemed like something worth wile. And I was the first to walk in the door, and they were just setting up, and Jamey started playing �Lover You Should Have Come Over� (Jeff Buckley), and so I sang a little and left some demos and went home. Then me and Shaun talked on the phone for a couple hours about (guess what?) music, Pearl Jam and U2 and Toad the Wet Sprocket (!?) and everything that was beautiful about music and ugly about bands. And then they asked me back and played me a song (Apology) and I felt something and wrote something and it WAS something. Something worth while. But it was more then that. This was �IT�. �IT� was home. Like Stevie and Marvin and Billie and Nina. Like Public Enemy or Eric B & Rakim, Like Peal Jam and Jeff and Tori and Ani and PJ Harvey, like every thing that ever made me feel ok. Like music. Beautiful music.
Still Division. That�s what Jamey named it. So it�s a band then. And we do what bands do. We play music. Together.
And Jamey and Shaun still think Joshua Tree is better then Achtung Baby!, And I still think Danny Carey�s a better drummer then the guy from The Dave Mathews Band, and Charlie still thinks we should have somebody in an Alf suit running around �raising a ruckus� at shows, and Tom can�t decide who he�d vote for if it all came down, Strong Bad or Homestar (I say Homestar). But we all think that if anything is something then this is it.
And we want you to come out and see the something, Like the little kid that can�t wait to show you the species he discovered in the back yard. And maybe you�ll think it�s something too and then, like the commercial, �tell two friends and they�ll tell two and�� you know. Because really, I�m getting too old for this shit. And it�s ridiculous to think anything of it (this music). But people ore ridiculous animals (Not like, say, Pumas) and they believe in ridiculous things. Like this. This thing that�s all in our blood (and that we�re trying to get in yours)
-Sean 12/1/2004Contact
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