Matt Brooks - guitar, vocals, bottle-clang generator, hands-to-ears feedback
Jeremy Levy - bass, background wailing, gum-chewing echoplex
Jay Adelberg - drums, 7-11 greeter, stunt-leg
Influences
beer, wine, nicotine, grass, bran muffins, Jeremy Levy, Esteban - master of guitar lesson infomercials, asia, omen, starship, jefferson starship, the jeffersons, melanie, hüsker dü, xanadu, mission of burma, freddy and the dreamers, jerry and the pacemakers, the who, mama mia, guided by voices, stereolab, the kinks, the jam, the minutemen, the outlaws, the hated, cheap trick, the beatles, the hollies, the small faces, matthew sweet, black flag, gene pitney, descendents, the replacements, the smithereens, red sovine, blind idiot god, the zombies, r.e.m., chad and jeremy, nuggets, pebbles, bam-bam, burt bacharach, misfits, buzzcocks, foghat, slint, the downsiders, richard strauss, velvet crush, polvo, the stranglers, hawkwind, the ventures, the marketts, gone, sebadoh, the nils, 690 am
Sounds Like
"If a band that has one foot in '80s Minneapolis and the other in Nova Scotia, Canada circa 1993 sounds appealing to you, then by golly, L.A.'s Ready the Jet fit the bill, dead-on. If anything, RTJ will make you a little wistful for the time when Hüsker Dü and Dino Jr. ruled college airwaves. Leave it to front man Matt Brooks to make certain that the precise amount of crunch, feedback, and sweet melodicism courses through the vein of every inspired track that lends itself to this excellent 38 minutes."
--The Big Takeover
"READY THE JET throws off short, catchy, crunchy, feedback-heavy power pop. Think Replacements crossed with Cheap Trick."
--SYNC Weekly
"[NEW RECORD HIGHS] is loaded with fine vocal arrangements, strong melodies and a loading dose of rhythm section."
--Arkansas Times
"...kick ass rock tunes in the same vein as Guided by Voices and the Replacements. Straight up rock ‘n roll bands seem to be fading away, and Ready the Jet keep pressing on in a way that reminds me of why I love indie rock and roll."
--Web In Front
"...tapping into the 80's Minneapolis power-pop/punk vein like something fierce, essentially sharing the same kinds of influences that make Superchunk great. I wish college rock and indie rock still sounded like this."
--Classical Geek Theatre
oh, and also...
Jeremy Levy, Matt Brooks, Jay Adelberg, sst records, homestead records, twin tone, muffins...
Indeed. I haven't read Capricorn, FINALLY read Cancer this year (I read his trilogy first and then the rest of his catalog, but never got around to the Tropics).
I wub you guys. Fine fellas with a properly placed sense of humor.
For the record your shit gets stuck in my head all the time. So I don't mind taking up some of your brain space. Mastered version coming soon....can't talk about the transmitter. -Justin
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