Original Members:
Kyle Borchgardt - lead vocals
Brian Sulak - lead guitar, vocals
Mark Mitchell - guitar
Chris Irving -bass guitar
Joe Creasman - drums
Other/Later Members:
Alex Vernon - drums for final tour
Bryan ??? - bass for final tour
Josh Williams (Culture) - drums at one Gville show
Dan Mazin (Until The End/Keepsake) - bass for final surprise show at Gville Fest
This is permission given fansite page for Red Roses For A Blue Lady (RRFBL). They broke up in 2001 and will never play again. Check out the blogs for additional RRFBL info. Also, to your surprise... a 'dude' does not run this. Thanks.
Red Roses For A Blue Lady was 1998-2001 and will never be again. RIP
I get a lot of emails from fans and band members expressing their appreciation for RRFBL. But since this is just a fan site run by a friend of the band they won't see these emails.
So I created a blog to speak directly to RRFBL band members. I know that some of them do visit here from time to time.
Only in America could such ideologically and aesthetically disparate genres as metal-core, emo-rock, and death metal come together in a musical clash - let alone one so caustic and cathartic - as they do on Red Roses For a Blue Lady's debut album, The Return to Melancholy. To this writer's knowledge, no other bands are of Red Roses' ilk, but if they do exist, The Return to Melancholy will soon become the gold standard for the Gainesville, Florida quintet's contemporaries to aspire to.
The most marked element on The Return to Melancholy is its chaos, which is hardly a pejorative term in the slightest. From song structures to the band's studied looseness, chaos permeates the whole record, staccato riffs raining down from every direction, blood boiling over during nearly every second, vocalist Kyle Borchgardt's pained growls barely steering the violence in a semi-linear direction, the whole bludgeon subtly belying the fact that Red Roses actually have tight chops but prefer to let the intensity breathe to its fullest extent. This bludgeon, however, is more than just a little sprinkled with weeping, mournful melody and, at times, stunning breakdowns replete with clean, chorused guitar; sure, Red Roses may go for the jugular more often than not, but there's more on their minds than mere anger.
Granted, hardcore and metal have been more-than-convenient bedfellows during the past 15 years, but the way guitarists Kenneth Sulak and Mark Mitchell make hardcore riffs sound so death metal (and vice versa), in the end, it just makes perfect sense. Relatingly, a cursory read of the lyrics - all dealing with such teary-eyed subjects as loneliness, broken relationships, sensitivity, and other things quintessentially "emo" - may convey a certain wimpiness at odds with the attack-minded content, but in the general context of the album, again, it just makes sense. And at the end of the day, shouldn't great music just make sense?
Adventurous music for adventurous minds, The Return to Melancholy is a record which will garner "love it" or "hate it" reactions (and little in between), but the album is that much better for it. Let's just hope Red Roses don't pull the standard hardcore vanishing act before they've even had the chance to spread their wings. Original article: Ink 19
gainesville fest is still by far one of the best shows ive ever been to, and ive been to thousands of shows. oh wait you mean other bands besides red roses for a blue lady played.
i remember gville fest. overheard "red roses is playing one more last set". needless to say, i quit going to shows after that because there was no point. seen the best fuck the rest nigga!
Guys you were unreal at the time, and you paved the way for all this todays bullshit bands trying to copy every little thing youve done!
You are missed even in eastern Europe, youve never been there but we were alot into your stuff!
Guys thanx for the add!
Now we are goddamn buddiez!
Cheers!
Everyone should feel free to check us and our songs on myspace!
man it fucking sucks you guys split up just as i find out about you but ill send some pics your way of when i get the lyrics done on my arm(from a girl named) yeah i relaly love you guys
haha
catch ya later!!
your fan from across the pond
JEN!"
just so everyone knows...
(the photos of the last show are awesome by the way)
RRFBL almost didnt play that last show. i know because i spent the four hours before it smoking weed and drinking with kyle trying to figure out if they REALLY wanted to do it. there was lots of conversation about if everyone was actually going to show up to play, then some shit talking about how much they were getting paid (kidding assholes), then there was extensive debate about the fact that kyle didnt have a black t-shirt on so the cool kids wouldnt take him serious (that really did take place). finally i said "fuck it, kyle lets get real stoned roll up in that bitch with light colored buttonups on, motherfuckin flip-flops, and spin kick some HC numbnutz in the damn head, rock their balls, and yall can finally be done with it!" and kyle was all..."cool." and there you go, that shit was for real one of the best shows that ever happened in gville. if you were there you saw history, if you wernt... what the fuck WERE you doing?
much love to my RRFBL family. ive known yall for years now, and will for many more.
p.s. if god himself came down from the heavens and orderd these guys to play a reunion show, they would piss their pants laughing at him. and then they would tell him to go back and blow the easter bunny while getting his salad tossed by santa claus.
i still got the shirt with the in utero baby that says something about your creation coming back to kill you, or some such thing. rrrrrrRespect!
(((O)))
man you guys rock so hard. Can you put up Mecklenburg on the player? I was just listening to it and i wana put it on my profile....that song is doooope.
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