bands
stolen from jeff tobias
32 Degrees In Hell: I posted an ad saying I wanted a band on the East Meadow High School Bash Board. This is what happened. I played guitar and sang and wrote the worst songs ever. Shows, CDs, "Joe Needs To Shut The Fuck Up". While in this band I started World Wars III, IV, and V with Go Quest!, The Free Refills, High School Football Heroes. See also: Terrible Things.
Donkey Bomb: 32DIH broke up for a short period of time, and Dave's friend Vinny Blanda asked me, Dave, and Mike if we wanted to be in a punk band with him. Sadly, we said yes. INCREDIBLE recordings, only owned by Dave Friedrich. Contact him for more info. See also: Pennywise, Off-Rhythm-Off-Key Vocals
The Neutrinos: Me, Jeffto, Mike Hegarty. One practice. One song. No singer. Sounded like dissonant rock, because that's what it was. See also: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
"The Dismemberment Plan" From "Washington": Me, Jeff, Evan, Mitch. We played The Dismemberment Plan's "Can We Be Mature?" at the East Meadow High School variety show, and encored with "My Generation". See also: ""The Dismemberment Plan"" "From" ""Washington""
Your Mother's Boyfriend and the Big Money Giveaways: Drugs + Superdrag = Me playing all the instruments on recordings and having Paperface for a backup band. 2 EPs turned into a "13 Songs"-like-full-length. Decent-to-very-good pop songs. One show with this incarnation which was actually a taping for Public Access TV. Someone actually saw it and IM'd me telling me how great it was. We almost got into a fight with a drunk band on the Girls Like It Short comp. See also: Weezer, LSD
Melto Bias: Me, Dave Friedrich, Mikey Hegs. Cockrock in odd-time. Two songs. Featured me singing into one of those cones that cheerleaders use to "PEP UP THE CROWD!". Only MIDIs exist. One song almost because a Sean Eldon song. See also: People Directly Ripping Off The Hot Snakes.
Sean Eldon: I rediscovered the minor key and odd-time signatures. Countless EPs recorded and never released. Early stuff sounded a lot like Fugazi, middle stuff sounded a lot like At The Drive-In, new stuff sounds like The Dismemberment Plan firing cannons into a Big Muff pedal with that singer dude from Refused. Did a couple of gigs with an electric guitar and a boombox pumping MIDI CDs, and one full band gig of Me, Jeff Rosenstock, and John WorldDeDomination. We played Livingbrooks songs and smashed old computers, and then walked out the front door leaving all of the borrowed equipment feeding back. Everyone was pissed except for us. See also: Horrible shrieking in 5/4+2/16+9/8+13/8+7/4.
Long Island Ska All-Stars: Sean Eldon was playing a boombox gig at Union Square Lounge. Dave Dickerman, JT, Chris Malone, and Jimmy Doyle showed up and we decided to have a band play that day in the place of JT's solo thing. We played ASOB, Operation Ivy, and the Specials. I played drums. No one knew what was going on. A week later, I joined ASOB. See also: Upbeats and covers.
Arrogant Sons Of Bitches: The most manic-skapunk ever made. I saw this band for years. Then Jeff Rosenstock came to SeanFest II: Attack Of The Clones and asked me to join the band on guitar. I played two sold out shows in Connecticut a week later without ever practicing with the band. We tour. We're doing a new record in Boston. See also: Ambulance
Thunder Crash: Me, JT, and Davey Dicks were in the ASOB practice space watching the Lightning Bolt DVD. It blew us away, and since we were in a room with a band's worth of instruments, we decided to start a grindcore/noise/jazz band. I played drums, Dave played a 5-string bass through a guitar amp on the dirty channel, and JT did vocals. The next practice, we replaced JT with Jeff and our lineup was perfect. We do nothing but improv and we are owning. We will probably play a few Long Island shows. See also: Led Zepplin, Dillinger Escape Plan, Lightning Bolt DVD, 48 hours of no sleep.
32 Degrees In Hell: I posted an ad saying I wanted a band on the East Meadow High School Bash Board. This is what happened. I played guitar and sang and wrote the worst songs ever. Shows, CDs, "Joe Needs To Shut The Fuck Up". While in this band I started World Wars III, IV, and V with Go Quest!, The Free Refills, High School Football Heroes. See also: Terrible Things.
Donkey Bomb: 32DIH broke up for a short period of time, and Dave's friend Vinny Blanda asked me, Dave, and Mike if we wanted to be in a punk band with him. Sadly, we said yes. INCREDIBLE recordings, only owned by Dave Friedrich. Contact him for more info. See also: Pennywise, Off-Rhythm-Off-Key Vocals
The Neutrinos: Me, Jeffto, Mike Hegarty. One practice. One song. No singer. Sounded like dissonant rock, because that's what it was. See also: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
"The Dismemberment Plan" From "Washington": Me, Jeff, Evan, Mitch. We played The Dismemberment Plan's "Can We Be Mature?" at the East Meadow High School variety show, and encored with "My Generation". See also: ""The Dismemberment Plan"" "From" ""Washington""
Your Mother's Boyfriend and the Big Money Giveaways: Drugs + Superdrag = Me playing all the instruments on recordings and having Paperface for a backup band. 2 EPs turned into a "13 Songs"-like-full-length. Decent-to-very-good pop songs. One show with this incarnation which was actually a taping for Public Access TV. Someone actually saw it and IM'd me telling me how great it was. We almost got into a fight with a drunk band on the Girls Like It Short comp. See also: Weezer, LSD
Melto Bias: Me, Dave Friedrich, Mikey Hegs. Cockrock in odd-time. Two songs. Featured me singing into one of those cones that cheerleaders use to "PEP UP THE CROWD!". Only MIDIs exist. One song almost because a Sean Eldon song. See also: People Directly Ripping Off The Hot Snakes.
Sean Eldon: I rediscovered the minor key and odd-time signatures. Countless EPs recorded and never released. Early stuff sounded a lot like Fugazi, middle stuff sounded a lot like At The Drive-In, new stuff sounds like The Dismemberment Plan firing cannons into a Big Muff pedal with that singer dude from Refused. Did a couple of gigs with an electric guitar and a boombox pumping MIDI CDs, and one full band gig of Me, Jeff Rosenstock, and John WorldDeDomination. We played Livingbrooks songs and smashed old computers, and then walked out the front door leaving all of the borrowed equipment feeding back. Everyone was pissed except for us. See also: Horrible shrieking in 5/4+2/16+9/8+13/8+7/4.
Long Island Ska All-Stars: Sean Eldon was playing a boombox gig at Union Square Lounge. Dave Dickerman, JT, Chris Malone, and Jimmy Doyle showed up and we decided to have a band play that day in the place of JT's solo thing. We played ASOB, Operation Ivy, and the Specials. I played drums. No one knew what was going on. A week later, I joined ASOB. See also: Upbeats and covers.
Arrogant Sons Of Bitches: The most manic-skapunk ever made. I saw this band for years. Then Jeff Rosenstock came to SeanFest II: Attack Of The Clones and asked me to join the band on guitar. I played two sold out shows in Connecticut a week later without ever practicing with the band. We tour. We're doing a new record in Boston. See also: Ambulance
Thunder Crash: Me, JT, and Davey Dicks were in the ASOB practice space watching the Lightning Bolt DVD. It blew us away, and since we were in a room with a band's worth of instruments, we decided to start a grindcore/noise/jazz band. I played drums, Dave played a 5-string bass through a guitar amp on the dirty channel, and JT did vocals. The next practice, we replaced JT with Jeff and our lineup was perfect. We do nothing but improv and we are owning. We will probably play a few Long Island shows. See also: Led Zepplin, Dillinger Escape Plan, Lightning Bolt DVD, 48 hours of no sleep.