Jon Dawson
Kurt Reil
CJ Grogan
Vince Grogan
Mike Polilli
with John "Rabbit" Bundrick
..
Influences
The Who, R.E.M., Radiohead, Kula Shaker, Beck, The Zombies, The Doors, The Smithereens, Kasabian, The Kinks, The Byrds, Paul Weller, Smashing Pumpkins, Robin Trower, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Moody Blues, John Lee Hooker, Link Wray, Mike Watt, Iggy & The Stooges, Pete Townshend, The Church, The Hollies, Arthur Lee & Love, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, XTC, MC5, Beta Band, Echo & The Bunneymen, Soundgarden, U2, The Ramones, Neil Young, The Hollies, Pink Floyd, Foo Fighters, The Damned, Morphine, Twinemen, Everclear, Robbie Robertson, Donovan, Minutemen, Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Gov't Mule, Shadows Of Knight, Them, John Fogerty/CCR, The Jam, Oasis, The Police, Mark Sandman, Angelo Badalmenti, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Pearl Jam, Sigor Ros, David Gilmour, The Beatles, Stereolab, U2
Sounds Like
Grip Weeds, CJ Grogan, The Who, U2, R.E.M., Beck, Radiohead, Kula Shaker, Sigur Ros, Smithereens, Foo Fighters, Wolfmother, Oasis, Paul Weller, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Kasabian, Doleful Lions, Keane, The Hives, Sufjan Stevens, Audioslave, The Killers, Kinks, Keane, King Crimson, Adrian Belew, Deep Purple, Buzzcocks, Dave Chapelle, The Church, The Doors, Eagles of Death Metal, Radiohead, Moody Blues, David Lynch, Pete Townshend, Peter Sallet, Britney Spears, Creation, Air, Syd Barret, Weezer, Raconteurs, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, The Jam, Zappa
Third of Never is currently writing songs for their second album, tentatively set for a late 2009 release.
MOODRING, the debut album from Third Of Never, which features guest spots from members of The Who, The Grip Weeds, and The Smithereens, is available from the JAM RECORDS online store(www.jamrecordings.com)
MYSTIC SLIDE/BAG OF BOXES/DJ/WIDE AWAKE SLEEPING/REDNECK RIVIERA/CHALK SALAD/LET MY LOVE OPEN THE DOOR/SEGUE/DEEP RUN/EVERYDAY IS A LONELY NIGHT/TABOO STU/ANYBODYS ANYTHING
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Featuring members of THE WHO and THE SMITHEREENS, a modern record that incorporates timeless sounds. Crashing guitars, full harmonies, and powerhouse drumming. A concept album for the new millenium.
AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT:The debut album from THIRD OF NEVER had it's start as a script. Guitarist Jon Dawson, who had grown frustrated with the musician pool in his native North Carolina, was working on a project that would incorporate live rock and roll, film, and a stage play. " I was having a hard time finding musicians that would dedicate themselves to the usual amount of work that it takes for a band to work, so I wanted to devise a new way to put the songs on display, so the original idea was to create a story that could be told through a song cycle. The performance would take place in a theatre with actors putting on a play, and between scenes the band would play a song that moved the story along, and at the same time transitional films relating to the play would be projected. The songs were recorded in demo form and a rough script was drafted. It actually made it to the workshop stage through the efforts of friends in New York, but a chance meeting with Kurt Reil turned my attention back to the idea of a traditional band situation."
Dawson saw Reil perform with his band the Grip Weeds
(THE GRIP WEEDS/HOUSE OF VIBES REVISITED)
at a music festival in North Carolina, and was smitten with the bands approach to music. "I was envious of what they were doing, as I had tried to find musicians like that to form a band around, but had been having great difficulty." As the months progressed, Dawson continued working on the idea of the rock band/play/film project. He contacted Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken about being involved in the project, and during their conversation Dennis suggested recording at the House Of Vibes in New Jersey. "Dennis spoke highly of this studio, so I went online and lo and behold it was run by Kurt Reil! I saw this as a sign and immediately approached Kurt about forming a band. After a few days of discussions Kurt was on board, and that got us going."
To flesh out the band, Dawson went after a pair of brothers who had already made their mark on the indie rock scene. "I was a big fan of a record that Kurt and Dennis had worked on with Jim Babjak of The Smithereens, and the bass player was Vince Grogan. Kurt said that he was still living in the area, so I went after him, and was lucky enough to get him. Now what I was looking for was a multi-instrumentalist....someone who could handle guitar and keyboard duties, along with vocal support. "Kurt had played me a few tracks from this album that he co-produced and played on by CJ Grogan(CJ GROGAN/NEWSONGSTOO)
, and it was fantastic. I just got the urge to call him out of the blue and pleaded my case, and yet again I lucked out and brought him in to the fold. I now had the absolute dream line-up that I'd been looking for. It was like going from despair to jubilation in a matter of weeks. Going from nothing to working with members of the Grip Weeds and John Bundrick was a rush of blood to the head."
The next step was to finish the songs. "I turned over my demos and lyric ideas and we just took it from there. It was really a situation of everybody throwing in their ideas into a pot and seeing what worked the best. Writing with Kurt and CJ was a real education and alot of fun." While the songs were being fleshed out, Jon got an email from one of his musical heroes, John "Rabbit" Bundrick of The Who. "I'd contacted Rabbit several months earlier about being involved in the project, but he was in the midst of recording the latest Who album in England, and was unavailable. Luckily for me, the sessions were soon over and Rabbit was now available. I originally contacted Rab about playing on the Pete Townshend cover that we do on the album, as he'd played on the original. However, he asked me to send all of the tracks, which I did. A few days later he contacted me and said that he'd be glad to play on the whole album, as he was a big fan of what we were doing, which absolutely floored me. I'd gone from not being able to get a band together at all to having some of the top musicians in the world at my disposal. We had a nice little trail of music strewn from Carolina to Jersey to England."
The songs that make up MOODRING follow the story of the original script idea. "It's about a guy who has had enough of reality, and the lengths that he goes to in order to avoid it. There is a neat little story there to follow if people want it, but the songs work on their own also. If you want to sit down and listen to the whole thing and have a little movie for your ears you'll be able to...if you just want a bouncy little number to listen to while you do the dishes, then it'll work on that level too."
The band has recently played some great shows at The Annex and Kenny's Castaways in New York. Their appearance at the International Pop Overthrow saw the debut of the 5-piece line up, featuring new member Mike Polilli, formerly of Buzzkill and the Anderson Council.
"Kurt had expressed a desire to get out from behind the kit and focus on singing," Dawson said. "We searched high and low for a drummer that was of Kurt's caliber, and we were blessed to find Mike Polilli available. His playing is fluid and dynamic, and we look forward to working up new material with him in the coming months."
Please read below for information on Third of Never related side projects.
ELECTRIC FORGIVENESS is a duo consisting of John "Rabbit" Bundrick (The Who/Bob Marley/Johnny Nash) and Jon Dawson (Third of Never). With contributions from Jeremy Morris and Tony Stiglitz (Doleful Lions, The Limes), their debut CD "Echoes and Booms" is a psychedelic mix tape for the best movie you've never seen.
MORPHINE JELLO is a clearing house for demos by Third of Never guitarist Jon Dawson. Demos for songs that sometimes make their way into Third of Never or the Electric Forgiveness project share space with music that is just too strange to classify. "Dane Cook Isn't Funny" is the first installment in the series.
PANTOMIME HORSE is actually North Carolina musician Jode Haskins, who once played in a pre-Third of Never band with Jon Dawson. Primarily a homemade record, the CD features a studio track recorded at Reflection Studios in Charlotte, which is the same studio R.E.M. used to record "Reckoning". The track "French Broad Kid" features guitar by Jon Dawson.
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