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Fun show last night guys... however, I have decided to only be a roadie during the warm months from now on! Just kidding, i'll always be there!!! Keep rockin boys! :)
Hell Yeah.. Love the new recordings and mixes... We're specially fond of "4"... good shit.. has a good vibe... Yet, anywho... you fellas have any shows coming up that we can scope?? We should get together again sometime and jam out to a crowd...
Looking foward to the good times this Saturday guys. We're slammin with Hell Yeah at Pieres Thursday and we have a ton of flyers ready with all of our names on them to promote the show at Legends. R U READY!?
WHats up fellas ? Thanks for looking us up and checkin' the music. We'll be on tour all this fall, so if we're comin' to your town, we'd love to hook a show or just plain hang out !!
Son of a bitch. It cut me off. Here's the rest of the article. Read the post below this first.
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Drawing on influences as broad as Herbie Handcock, Phish, Foo Fighters and Sublime, the band strives for a complexity and depth both musically and lyrically.
“Writing my own lyrics has been a challenge for me,” Hanford says. “What do you write about? How are the lyrics going to fit with the music? The first song I wrote is called ‘Corrosive.’ It’s about … I don’t even know what it’s about.”
“Our songs are rarely about something,” Lock says. “It’s more about the imagery, the feeling. We like lyrics that are left open for other people’s interpretation. Listening to a song, you can take from it what you want.
“It might mean something to the person who wrote it and something completely different to another person.”
Currently, the band is writing a handful of new songs, ostensibly in order to make a full-length album next year.
A four-song sampler is available at shows or via the band’s Web site, www.myspace.com/sycfive.
“We want to get away from playing covers and focus more on our own music,” Lock says. “And we’re getting more confident about it. We’ve all got a wide variety of influences, but we’re friends. We all work well together.”
“We’re doing good so far,” Hanford says. “But it’s only the beginning.”
School friends get in sync North Side marching band inspires young musicians
By Emma Downs
Not too long ago, the local prog-metal band Synchronicity performed at Carl’s Tavern, a small bar in New Haven.
With a set list of original music – and a slew of covers, just in case – they took the stage with their instruments in hand. Looking out at the crowd, they noticed there wasn’t an empty square foot of floor space in the bar.
“It was our first show as a band,” guitarist Pete Lock says. “But it was also my first show ever.”
“It was awesome,” singer Steve Hanford says. “I was singing, and people were standing literally less than a foot away from my face.”
Since then, the band – Hanford, guitarists Lock and Jerad Lambert, bassist Noah Castaneda and drummer Ben Gabet – has picked up gigs at the Jam Crib, the Firehouse Theater and a smattering of local bars. Technically, they’ve only played together for about a year, a time span belied by the precision and tight attack they bring to their music. But it took the band four years to hone its musicianship, Lock says.
“We were all in the marching band,” Lock says. “Our band director was a huge influence on us – from how we play to how we perform and practice.”
Born out of the music program at North Side High School, Synchronicity has the improvisational sensibility of a jazz group.
Driven by texture, their music is a fusion of heavy metal and progressive rock, intricately structured compositions that blend loud guitars with classically trained, nearly theatrical, musicianship.
The band will perform at 9 p.m. today at Carl’s Tavern. Gradeight will open the show.
“We didn’t set out to make a certain kind of music,” Lock says. “We only knew we wanted to do something different, something you don’t hear on mainstream radio.”
How's it going, guys? We got a show on Friday, August 31 playing along some other cool bands at Sunset Hall. The Show starts at 6PM. Only $5 for 5 bands. We hope to see you there. Peace out from the boys of Verge.
Thanks for helping raise almost $1700 for the MS Society last friday. You guys played awesome, and i would love to have you play at the benefit next year. thanks again-Andrew
Please come to this show Monday August 13, hang out with an old friend (me - Andy G), and see some great bands from Bloomington! The show is at the Rejoice House, located at 2722 Leroy Ave. (near the Goheen residence!)
