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Monday

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Released: Jan 1, 1999

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Monday
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I Like You
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Genre: Powerpop
Location US
Profile Views: 9579
Last Login: 3/24/2010
Member Since 12/20/2006
Website one59ers.com
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Upcoming Reunion Shows ..Feb 20 2009 6:00P REUNION SHOW @ The Record Bar Kansas City, Missouri ..Feb 21 2009 6:00P REUNION SHOW @ The Replay Lounge Lawrence, Kansas .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..An Old Bio for EXIT 159 ..Kristie Stremel : Guitar/Vocals ..Rob VanBiber : Drums ..Byron Huhmann : Bass/Vocals ..Jamey Wheeler : Bass/Vocals ..In the spring of '97, Kristie Stremel left Tri-Star/Columbia recording artists Frogpond to pursue her own vision of Pop/Rock. Kristie asked Rob VanBiber to join in her quest when Rob performed an impromptu audition in a local area music shop. Former TV FIFTY frontman Byron Huhmann took over original bassist Jamey Wheeler's spot in March of '98. ..Exit's first live show was at Davey's Uptown in Kansas City, where most audience members were astonished to find out that it was Exit's debut performance. Exit has gone on to play extensively in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota. Some of the acts Exit has had the honor to play with are Better Than Ezra (Elektra) The Devlins (Universal), House of Large Sizes (WAR?), Outhouse (Mercury Records), TV FIFTY (Don't Touch Me), Ultimate Fakebook (Noisesome Records),The Gadjits (Hepcat), and The Matt Wilson Band . They were also picked to play the 1998 Kansas City Spirit Festival, as well having the track "What Gives?" on the accompanying compilation CD. ..In January of '98 Exit 159 released their debut EP Lost On Earth (Don't Touch Me Records) to critical raves, and the two singles, "What Gives?" and "Short Ride Down", have been in regular rotation on KLZR 105.9 and 107.3 the X in Kansas City. They were also voted the "Best New Band" at the Kansas City Lawrence Area Music Awards by the readers of PitchWeekly. ..Their first full-length LP, Exit 159 has just been released on Don't Touch Me Records. The self-titled LP marks a turning point in the evolution of Exit 159 as the band continues to explore and expand their own particular take on pop rock n' roll. Running the gauntlet through pop, rock, punk, and country, Exit 159 proves to be a truly unique album from this up and coming band.
Members
..Rob VanBiber ..Rob VanBiber became a drummer at the age of 4. His musical education consisted of formal training and playing along to Prince’s “Diamonds and Pearls” album and Van Halen records. Rob has been a performer in major music clubs since the age of 14. Rob recorded and toured the US as a member of EXIT 159. He has also toured with alt-country band Hadacol, and performed with the DC based band Magnet, along with recording with many other artists. ..Scott Cameron ..Scott Cameron, a New Jersey native, distinguished himself as a top singer/guitarist in the New Jersey/New York music scene while perfecting his technique in several top draw bands. A work related move brought him to the Midwest, where his top-notch vocals and guitar work earned him spots in several highly acclaimed local original and cover bands. Most recently, Scott has played lead guitar in the Kristie Stremel Band and on her acclaimed CD release “10 Years” as well as playing/singing in the popular acoustic cover band “The Goods”. ..James Wheeler ..James Wheeler discovered his musical ambitions at the age of 17, and was given his first opportunity to put them into practice with Exit 159 in the late ’90s. After the band’s first incarnation ran its course, Wheeler took a musical sabbatical for nearly a decade. Having spent that time polishing his craft and honing his improvisational abilities, he rejoins his former comrades for another run through the rock and roll gauntlet. ..Kristie Stremel ..Kristie Stremel sings from the heart of America. It’s a tough place. Yet her songs turn the details of the daily grind into reasons to keep pushing. In a time of despair, her music fights for hope. ..Stremel’s western Kansas childhood home can be found precisely in the middle of nowhere-too far off the beaten track for most concert tours, or even to receive FM radio. It’s the kind of place where most Americans live their lives: off the radar – unseen, unheard and easily forgotten – facing a regular diet of boredom and bad jobs. ..In that world, Stremel began to fashion a place she could call her own out of the Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings songs that her guitar-playing father taught her. In 1986, at age 12, she entertained her family with her first electric guitar. At 15, she caught Joan Jett at the county fair and decided to put together a band; it performed at the local skating rink and school dances. Transplanted to Kansas City the summer before high school, she got serious about writing songs. ..At 19, those songs helped her start building a fan base in the area. By 21, Stremel was a crowd favorite in one of Kansas City’s most promising bands, Frogpond, which released a 1996 album produced by Everclear’s Art Alexakis. The next year, her growing stockpile of songs led her to form her own band. She named it after the Interstate 70 off-ramp that led to her hometown, and Exit 159 released an appropriately titled 7-song EP, “Lost on Earth.” It yielded one regional radio hit, and the full album that followed produced two more. The band consistently packed some of the toughest houses in Kansas City, toured the West Coast twice and received the Pitch newspaper’s prestigious Kansas City/Lawrence Area Music Award for both Best New Band and Band of the Year. ..But over the next six years, despite winning another Pitch Music Award for Best Female Vocalist, Stremel never really got where she wanted to go. And the perspective she gained from that hard reality helped her produce her best and deepest work. Stremel’s pockets of fans across the country treasured the three sophisticated and ambitious albums (and one EP) that followed. The wisdom in those albums came from years of leaping for brass rings and landing on barroom floors. Still a largely unknown artist, Stremel never stopped growing as a musician and a lyricist, probing the side of the American Dream that doesn’t make the evening news. ..Out of her struggle comes 10 Years: fourteen of Stremel’s best songs, all produced by Springfield, Missouri legend Lou Whitney (member of the Skeletons and the Morrells, producer of, among others, the Del Lords and the Domino Kings). 10 Years includes five brand new, dramatically deeper performances of fan favorites. They’re topped by two brand new compositions – “Have It All” and “It’s Not A Phase”- that raise the stakes even higher. The result is a richly textured, hard-focused statement of what it takes for a soul to survive in today’s America. A voice calling in a man-made wilderness. ..And yet … it’s not alone. Because what Kristie Stremel shows most poignantly is how the demand to be heard, to have meaning in life, binds people together. It’s a cry from the heart of the country to the one in our dreams. ..– KS bio written by Danny Alexander
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..Kristie Stremel and her former band mates from Exit 159 (drummer Rob VanBiber and bassist Jamey Wheeler) have reunited along with lead guitarist Scott Cameron, to form this exciting new Kansas City, MO based band. ..After two extremely successful Exit 159 reunion shows, the itch was back in a BIG way. Karma is indeed a wonderfully strange and mysterious master of destiny. ..Yes, the magic is back, and it’s called Kristie Stremel & The One59ers. www.one59ers.com .......... ..........