contact info: (904)742-4105 or thepictureshow@msn.com
Influences
U2, For Squirrels, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Tea Party, Our Lady Peace, Jeff Buckley, Incubus, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman, Alice in Chains, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Who, Rush, Buddy Rich, Living Colour, John Williams, The Pixies, The Cars, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The B, and more...
Sounds Like
Discography:
Set lists:
03/14/09 - Full Moon Saloon-Daytona Beach, Fla. Set list:
Blur
BLV
Tonight
Disease
Give In
Promise You
All Right
Majestic
I Will Follow
Dirty
The Picture Show started in Northern California where three eleven-year-old friends, Dan Stewart, Aaron Jespersen, and Ryan Ito, began producing no-budget camcorder movies. The band insists that this history of movie making has relevance to the rock and roll music they now create. “For one thing, we got our creative differences and ego issues in check when we were eleven,” says Stewart. “We were obsessed with making movies by any means necessary,” Stewart adds, “and we often used fictitious names in the credits.” “The end result was what mattered the most. Not individual credit,” says Jespersen. “We were very ambitious about it, too. We naively believed that we could shoot a movie in my backyard that would be as awesome as The Terminator. We were big thinkers.” Stewart adds, “It could be said that we brought a similar naiveté to the table years later when we set out to start a band.”
When Stewart, Jespersen, and Ito turned eighteen, they were interested in trying something new. “Dan’s brother was a guitar player,” says Ito, “he had a Strat and a Marshall half stack. One night, we took turns on his guitar, banging out nonsense chords for a while. Then, in some sort of burst of inspiration, we looked at each other and said, ‘Let’s start a band.” None of the three had any real experience with songwriting, instrumentation, or stage performance. “We had little more than a passion for music and the bands that created it,” says Jespersen, “choosing our roles for the band was pretty much arbitrary.” “Dan and Ryan wanted to try guitar and so I said I’d be the singer. We were basically three random guys starting a band from absolutely nothing. By all rights we should have ended up the worst band of all time.”
As soon as Stewart and Ito figured out how to string a few notes together they started writing music. The trio had developed a strong work ethic during their movie making days and they brought it with them into their music. The first thing they did as a band was to write and record three full-length albums. “Music was this new medium for us that we were very excited about,” says Ito. “We had this archaic recording device that we used to record our albums. We did three LPs in about three months. Most of the recordings were fairly atrocious but there were a few gems in there and we were definitely sensing potential. We started to feel like we were really onto something.” Of the thirty-eight songs on these tapes, one of them was notably titled The Picture Show.
A few years, many songs, and countless performances later, the band had developed into a powerful act. Having relocated to Jacksonville, Florida, they recorded and performed under different band names and with different drummers for several years. They chose the band name The Picture Show and enlisted Minnesota native Brad Daninger as their permanent drummer in 2005. “I really connected with their sound,” says Daninger, “and I wanted to show them I had something to add to it.” Needless to say he made a huge impression. “When Brad joined the band we truly felt like we had finally become the band we had always wanted to be,” says Stewart, “Our sound was complete and we felt prepared to take things to the next level.”
Their debut album, Shatters Into Discontent, contains twelve tracks ranging from epic to rocking to ballad and back again.
In 2007 The Picture Show signed with 10spot Records and released the album with distribution by Universal Music Group on February 19, 2008. “Playing in a band, you’re constantly striving to reach new levels and new plateaus. Signing with 10spot has definitely brought us to a new level and we’re very excited about the opportunities that lay before us,” says Stewart. “Creatively, we’re very inspired and focused right now,” adds Jespersen, “We’re working on lots of new material for our second album. We’re completely motivated to keep raising the bar for ourselves.”
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Saw the PBS show last night guys. Yall were awesome. Great interview. We are going to have to have a little chat about some of the pictures that are displayed on the walls of your rehearsal room. Seemed like a lot of muscular men in them photos...hmmm....lol, j/k. Great work and rock on gentlemen. Later, Rev.
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Great band and music! I was talking to Brad at his job today, and he tried helping me find a part for my pedalboard...Thanks, man...the parts work fine now. Check my music out, especially Dark Water, and Revenge...new music, still working on Revenge though. ;) Glad to make a new friend today.
WOAH SWEET that's awesome news congrats I can't wait to hear more songs. Gives me something else to look forward to. That's awesome. Everything is great on my end of things I just passed my last class for the summer thank god no more classes till fall. So now I'm just checking in with bands I have seeing where they are going, gunna grab some shows. My summer of shows was kicked off a few weeks ago with Atom Smash so I'm really excited and can't wait to see more. I look forward to hearing the new songs.
Thanks for getting back to me. Glad to hear all is well and going in the direction you like ^.^ keep rockin <3 Jackie Smash
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