Andrew Baxter - drums
Tom Johnsen - guitar
Drew Petersen - bass, voice
Erik Petersen - voice, guitar, mandolin
... and Joe D'Orazio, who played trumpet live.
Influences
Dead Kennedys, SubCultureShockFishCitizenHumans, 7 Seconds, Crass, old Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Operation Ivy, Billy Bragg, Minor Threat...
Sounds Like
"The Crew"-era 7 Seconds, "Worlds Apart"-era Subhumans, "Suffer"-era Bad Religion and "Fresh Fruit"-era Dead Kennedys. Maybe a little Billy Bragg thrown in there for later stuff.
The Orphans formed in May 1995 in the Philly area...more specifically, in and around the area of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Really the story begins before then, on skateboards in driveways and parking lots while a beat-up tape player crackles and blares in the background. We played basement shows mostly... a few backyards and a whole slew of rentable halls with a lot of bands we became friends with. All in all it adds up to the greatest time of your life: pissed off, carefree, caffeinated and brimming with the relentless desire to get in front of a roomful of dirty, spiky kids around your age and just fucking scream til you can't scream no more. We stopped playing officially in 2000, but have played reunion shows time and again for one reason or another. Our discography CD, "Raise the Youth," is still available through Fistolo Records (www.fistolo.com) and the Mischief Brew website (www.mischiefbrew.com).
yeah we thought it would be a great song to cover! haha we had to listen through it soo many times to write down all the words...it took a while... the timing in the chorus was hard to get down the first few tries but then we got it... as soon as we record i can email it to you, or tell you where to find it online... glad to see your response!
p.s. we have had many arguements about what is said after the "hey"'s and before who the fuck are they is it... don't listen, your listening?
Great fuckin time last weekend. Thanks again for hooking up everything, from the show to the sleeping arrangements, to the breakfast, we had a great time.
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeez play Ohio too. I'm thinking about trying to go to the PA show, but it'll be winter and gas will be redonkulis and I won't have a place to stay. Consider it?
