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Building Rockets
Alternative / Psychedelic / Powerpop

Building Rockets



GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA
United States

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Last Login:  7/16/2009
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Member Since1/10/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.buildingrockets.com
Band MembersSam Heath (2003-present)
Chris Johnston (2009-present)
Cleveland M. Windsor (2008-present)
Scott Littler (2006-2009)
Lex Hubbard (2008)
Russell Johnson (2003-2007)
Megan Johnson (2003-2006)
BJ Brinck (2003)
InfluencesPixies, Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, R.E.M., The Decemberists, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth, Belle and Sebastian, Wilco, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Ramones, Grand Funk Railroad, Kool Moe Dee, Igor Stravinski. The last three mostly in spirit.
Sounds Likeaural marmalade
Record LabelJust Like Records
Type of LabelUnsigned


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 15 2009 9:00P
Backstage Lounge - Sam acoustic show Gainesville, Florida
Aug 21 2009 11:00P
Tim & Terry’s Gainesville, Florida
Sep 18 2009 11:00P
Tim & Terry’s Gainesville, Florida

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   About Building Rockets
Softkey Leftsoftkey Right

Gainesville, FL’s Building Rockets began as a song-a-day solo project in 2003 by songwriter Sam Heath, having weathered the dissolution of his former band and feeling creatively adrift as a result. After gazing resolutely into his navel and coming up with the germs of most of the songs that eventually became their debut album, The Union Forever, Sam felt a desire, a calling if you will, to bring these pop gems to the stage and sought out members to flesh out the group.

In December 2006, Sam, drummer Scott Littler, and original bassist Russell Johnson encamped in a an empty old chapel with two carloads of recording equipment and produced their second album, Player Piano, which draws not only on their already evident power-pop leanings (“It’s a Lie,” “Girl, You’ll Be a Lawyer Soon”) but includes forays into country gospel (“A Song For Thomas, Who Doubted”), and Irish folk (“An American Wake”).

Russell left the band in 2007 and after a year without playing a note, the band ultimately drafted a successor in Dr. Cleveland M. Windsor, a master blues guitarist and covert pop-music architect with a knack for combining McCartneyesque basslines with blast furnace intensity. With its new lineup in place, Building Rockets is creating powerful, hook-filled songs that borrow ideas from all over the map, defying allegiance to a particular sound and following their muse down every rabbit-hole that it goes.

 

The Union Forever
$8.00

01 Like a Storybook Ending
02 The Maginot Line
03 Bob Dylan
04 Someday, Sarah
05 My Exploding Head
06 NYC
07 Song from a Bowery Opera House
08 Your Name in Cursive
09 American Gothic
10 Magnetic North

 

Player Piano
$10.00

 

01 The Plan
02 Girl, You'll Be a Lawyer Soon
03 The Maginot Line
04 It's a Lie
05 An American Wake
06 A Song for Thomas, Who Doubted
07 When I Took Your Hand
08 Being an Account of the Amazing, Improbable
  Journey of a Mr. Phineas T. Snodgrass, Balloonist
  Extraordinaire
09 How We Lost California
10 The Record Store Clerk Has Broken Your Heart
11 Baptism Song
12 Bob Dylan
13 A Song for Abraham
14 Let's Get You to Bed


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Jul 13 2009 12:23 PM

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I See Music





Jul 2 2009 2:36 PM



Civic Media Center pics are up.
Was a great show and we will miss hearing Scott.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
PEDO ALERT





Jun 20 2009 12:10 AM

Part 1 - Put The Baby In The Box
I See Music





Jun 10 2009 4:25 PM



More pics at my site.
Hope yer havin a terrific day.
Can't wait for the weekend !!!
Love ya
I See Music





Jun 10 2009 4:24 PM

Dorsey





Jun 8 2009 7:54 PM

Man! I wanna see the band play! I ain't never seen the band play..

I'll have to make it to one of those shows.

These recordings sound great, where did you do them?
4ORTY SE7EN ︻╦╤─





Jun 7 2009 1:10 AM

Hey MySpace friend!! How have you been?? I'm good, just doing this music thing!!
I was just jamming out on your page & thought I'd give you a shout out!!

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Fraidy Cat





May 27 2009 2:27 AM

If I had a pianola, I hope it'd play "Player Piano" repeatedly before reciding Jarrell a couple of times.

It's worth the loss of sleep.
UDTV SUNDAY SCHOOL





May 24 2009 8:01 AM

Special Event TONIGHT May 24th!!!!!!!!

UDTV SUNDAY SCHOOL Open Mic & All Star Jam Night
LAST RITES Farewell: Schools Out For Summer Show

7-11pm NO COVER! Come Say goodbye to a Gainesville tradition.

UDTV SUNDAY SCHOOL LAST RITES
Backstage Lounge is at 1315 S. Main Street.
www.myspace.com/UDTVsundaySchool

Please Spread The Word!!!
I See Music





May 5 2009 7:24 PM



Enjoyed the Show.
Can't wait to hear you guys again.
Hugz
UDTV SUNDAY SCHOOL





May 1 2009 11:41 PM

UDTV SUNDAY SCHOOL Open Mic & All Star Jam Night @ BACKSTAGE LOUNGE
Hosted by WOLFMAN & The UDTV CHOIR


Every Sunday 7-11pm in Gainesville, FL

Featuring the MUNCHIE MADNESS Menu so come hungry!!! Bet you can't eat a whole WOLFMAN Double Bacon Beast Burger on an EGGO!!!!! Try a Quirky Quesadilla with Trippin' Dippn' Sauce - choose from the Mighty Porker or the Righteous Rib.
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SUPPORT UDTV & LOCAL MUSIC & PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
Michael Claytor and His Friends





Mar 25 2009 6:19 PM

YO! great tunes guys!
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Aug 26 2008 10:46 PM

If I hadn't been such a weakling I would have been there last night!!! I WILL BE ThERE SATURDAY!

(I fought robots sunday night and horses all day monday and was WORE out!)
Adam Norris





Aug 18 2008 8:59 AM

omg omg omg you ugys are cming back that great, you guys are like the beatles of rock no ones ever heard..........ok mor eliek a beatles cover band of rock music people have never heard of of
Scott





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Can you beat my score on this quiz?

80's Movie Classics



I got 93%. Can you do any better?





Starrfire





Aug 10 2008 2:21 PM

I'm so excited about the upcoming show!!!! It's been too long!
Fraidy Cat





Jul 24 2008 5:12 AM

You guys're sorta fantastic, and I only sound ambivalent so as to buck possible accusations of sycophancy.

I'm glad to see that you've got a show comin' up; I hope it's a success, and if I make it out, I hope it's also a FREE success. Aw, hell, you guys're worth the cash--financial squeeze be damned, then!

--Andy
The Impossible Shoelace





Apr 20 2008 7:41 PM

Cowboy is to stay on the last LP.

The new one will be so new. Dude..

man..
The Righteous Kind





Jan 21 2008 4:48 PM

The Righteous Kind's MLK tribute song. Hear it at our Myspace page.

Show me the day
by Charles Ray

The wind has blown this way before
When they fought to end that Asian war
We thought that peace was here to stay
Show me the day
I said - show me the day

It seemed the moment had arrived
When they marched way back in ‘65
You think Jim Crow has gone away?
Show me the day
I said - show me the day

Show me a new day dawning
End of this long black night
Show me we all are brothers
I had a dream last night!

The world is such an ugly scene
‘Cause hate is deep inside our genes
You say that love will find away
Show me the day
I said - show me the day

Show me a new day dawning
End of this long black night
Show me we all are brothers
I had a dream last night!

The world is such an ugly scene
‘Cause hate is deep inside our genes
But nurture is the other way
Teach love today
Preach love today
Show me the way
Teach Charles Ray
The Colonel





Jan 3 2008 6:13 PM

I told you I have proof that Charles Ray, of the band The Righteous Kind (www.myspace.com/TheRighteousKind), is a commie. Well here it is! Shown below is a photo of a two-year old Charles Ray (right) and his brother Thomas taken on May Day 1955. Ray’s family was died hard commies. So much so that they had little Tommy hold a photo of Uncle Joe Stalin in the photo. Is this your smoking gun, or what?

Colonel

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Dec 30 2007 6:44 AM

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Dec 8 2007 2:33 PM

Thanks for the add, new friend. I dig your righteous sound!



Charles Ray
Drew





Nov 17 2007 1:54 AM

How are you Sambo
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