Alright thought more people would have stuff to post on this thread, so here's what I dug up.
Started playing guitar in 4th grade and my brother was in 6th grade and started drumming. Played with some friends from school, 9th grade I broke my arm in football and started playing bass cause it was easier as my arm was healing slowly over time. We had a bunch of songs punkish songs my friend wrote, and we'd play stuff like Enter Sandman and Smells like Teen spirit and Would. By the end of high-school I was pretty good at both instruments, jammed with a few people in college but never really got much going.
Moved to Wenatchee in 2001 and my brother was jamming with some guys he'd met. He introduced me to Brian who shredded a version of Eruption that would have made Eddie grin. I was blown away and was lucky enough to have him let me try to play rhythm with him. At some point the bass player left so of course I had to switch to bass, but it wasn't a bad thing as my brother and I were really tight with me on bass and the three of us could jam for hours.
At some point my brother moved to Kentucky, and Brian and I spent a lot of time trying out drummers and singers. We had a decent band going around 2007 and recorded a couple demos at a local studio. We weren't very happy with the final product for the price, although we didn't pay much, so I guess big surprise.
Definitely some sound quality and tempo issues, but not too bad when I hear it years later. Like always Brian's guitar leads are my favorite part.
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Around this time we brought in a rhythm guitar player, who then introduced us to a musician he knew who had about 3 albums worth of songs he had composed and recorded entirely himself for all instruments, about half with lyrics. His name was Tyler and he came and blew us away with his drumming, so we had to make the switch.
We had a gig and the rhythm guitar didn't show and at that point Tyler brought in a guitar player he'd worked with for a while, and the singer ended up having "creative differences" with the new guys, mostly because he had trouble being coached and Tyler couldn't help but coach everyone to improve their parts. So we brought in another guy who we'd tried before who'd been around Wenatchee for ever.
Brian's songs we'd played for ever, with Tyler's recording touches, done in 2009 in his bedroom:
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A couple of Tyler's songs that he recorded all the parts for before we played with him that we would play live:
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Songs written mostly by Brian and Tyler both, all recorded at Tyler's house:
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By early 2011 the band drama brought a split, I stuck with Brian since we'd jammed together for so long, but the personal problems eventually became too much. The singer eventually went down to LA thinking he could make it, and ended up overdosing and died. RIP Knemeyer.