ThePeaceSilver
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Chris Lepore- Drums
Charles Krah- Bass
Beejae Ainsworth- Guitar/ Vocals
Andrew Voltz- Guitar/Vocals
The Peace formed in 2002 after singer/songwriter Beejae Ainsworth was unhappy working on solo material, and started playing with drummer Ben Stein. The Peace, as it was in 2002, played several larger shows starting in front of 1100 at a Metrpol (Pittsburgh, PA Club) Festival, and then worked their way back up from playing at a crowd of less than a dozen at bars until they were regularly headlining Pittsburgh's Famous Club Laga. Adding guitarist/singer/songwriter Andrew Voltz in 2003, The Peace released 'Yesterday's Been Buried', the first live album, coming in at an EP status with 7 songs and a hidden track, with "Same Old Song", "Black & Blue", and "Tell Me Again", all airing on several radio stations, and all reaching into Top 200 Alternative Charts Internet hits.
With shows booked as early as Spring 2004 for August and September in New York City, The Peace is currently playing live around Pittsburgh, getting ready to showcase New York City, and promoting, Silver, the 15-song disc that the band has been trying out live to very positive response. The release date is for Tuesday, August 31, but won't be in regional and national stores until October.Band/artist history
Formed in 2002, The Peace has become everything that rock and roll should be; reckless, adventurous, exciting, energetic, raw, and unleashed. Beejae Ainsworth (guitar/vocals) and Andy Voltz (guitar/vocals), are the songwriters of the band, penning up numbers that have received even commercial radio airplay without promotion or backing. Rhythm section Chris Lepore (percussion) and Charles Krah (bass) make the songs pump through your veins like an addiction.
Quality and prolific songwriting, according to DJ Kachi, is one of the bands biggest assets along with their raw emotional power (Pulp Magazine December 2002). In two short years, the band has gone from a three piece getting together to arrange songs, to grabbing label interest from both New York and California, being booked in New York City, and playing countless bigger rooms in Pittsburgh with crowds usually in the hundreds.
Through Fall of 2002 into the winter, The Peace, with then members Ben Stein and Steve Lucerelli on rhythm, prepare to record their debut CD with Matt Harrington engineering at Soundscape. However a car accident that nearly took Ben Steins life when he was broadsided, inevitably delayed all that. Ben made a miraculously recovery to play a comeback show at Club Laga only one month later, and recorded started only two weeks after that.
The first CD, Yesterdays Been Buried, an EP of 7 studio songs and an acoustic demo, was released in July 2003, with three of the songs, Black & Blue, Same Old Song, and Tell Me Again receiving both indie and commercial radio airplay, and all three becoming Top 200 MP3 Alternative Rock General Hits. The CD sold out of its pressing in its first month, leaving it on backorder for the rest of the fall shows.
Ainsworth and Voltz took time off in the winter into 2004 to work on harmonies and a batch of new songs, including the mesmerizing Broke, energetic Not Born To Fly, and Talk is Cheap, creating a great backdrop of chemistry. In fact, every song on the new CD, Silver, an album of 15 songs recorded in just 72 hours, has its own quality and persona, and most would make for singles.
Ainsworth and Voltzs writing is highly influenced by The Beatles, Nirvana, and Guster. Ainsworth is also influenced by Bush, The Verve, and The Who, while Voltz is deep into The Pixies and Sonic Youth. Charles prefers Radiohead, Days of the New, and a healthy amount of 90s rock, while Chriss percussion inspiration is composed from a lot of modern punk bands.
The Peace has won acclaim with any crowd they have played for, starting off at a showcase in front of an 1100 plus crowd, only to gain a farther fanbase. The feeling is original there is an ear for arrangements, good riffs and songwriting with a moody hard rock wall of guitars Mike Shanley, Pulp, August 2003.
With guitar solos that scream to you, a definite live presence even when the band is standing still, or walking on stage, words that can rip you apart but sew you up again, and some of the most enjoyable melodies heard from any level of performer today, how can you not be at least intrigued by this band? It all goes back to that reckless, lets trash a hotel room sound that could just as easily be followed up by one of their achingly beautiful melodies. Rock and roll isnt the next trend, or the next movement, it is defined by a feeling that cant be described in words, and The Peace are determined to do that.Have you performed in front of an audience?We play a lot of places, but check out WWW.THEPEACEONLINE.COM to see where we have played and are playing next.
Your musical influences
Nirvana, Beatles, Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Verve, Days of the New, Travis Barker (drums), Radiohead, Green Day...What equipment do you use?
We use guitars, amps, and drums. If you are a good musician you're going to make plastic toys sound good so this shouldn't even matter.Anything else?
Save Rock.Thank you for visiting our humble Soundclick site. We all hope you enjoy our new album!All comments (2)
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