We all met about three years ago in our 6/7 math class. Tyler and Sam had been best friends since kindergarten but had yet to become friends with Graham and Jake. Towards the end of that school year Sam and Tyler came up to me (Jake) and asked me if i was interested in being in a band.
About two weeks later we all met at Tyler's house and showed of to each other for about two hours. From then on, for the majority of our seventh grade year, we practiced covers of our favorite songs, and butchered them beyond repair, until my grades started to slip. Then my mother grounded me from going over to Tyler's. This continued until she gave up on it about two weeks before the end of the school year.
All throughout that summer we sat in that little room staring at each other waiting for the next person to tell us which song we were going to demolish next.
We started getting serious about getting those covers down when we met Jordan Sloan. He was a friend of ours who just happened to be a bass player. He jammed with us for a few practices until one day he just stopped coming over.
By the time eighth grade rolled around, it was a new year with all new faces. One of them belonged to Gino Biggi. A new kid transferred to our school from West Sylvan. After getting to know him for a few weeks, it came up that he played guitar. We invited him over to Tyler's house for practice and he was happy to come play with us. Once he came over however, we weren't really feeling the vibe.
This didn't stop me and him from bringing our guitars to school everyday and playing the song Peace of Mind by Boston everyday for the next three months. Eventually word of our constant guitar playing got to Mr.Paiker.
He then approached Gino and myself. He wanted to know if we were interested in started a band hosted by the school. It sounded like a good idea to us, but Sam and Tyler weren't into it. This led to me leaving the band to start this project with Gino.
We held try-outs and narrowed it down to the best musicians at our school. But, after we made our final list, Sam and Tyler took our singer bass player and lead guitarist, which left us at square one. We tryed a couple of other kids but nothing ever worked out.
In May of eighth grade I found myself crawling back to the band I had left. It turned out that they had the same experience with the people they had stolen from Gino and myself.
We pulled it together and got a set of five songs ready for the final eighth grade bbq. We played horribly and embarassed ourselves, but it's the best memory I've had with these three gentlemen so far. The summer of our eighth grade year was the most productive up to that point. We wrote our first two songs, if you could call them songs. One was about the people we hated, and the other was about building a pirate ship. In August of that year, me and Tyler became friends with Graham. He was the weirdest red-haired jewish thing you've ever seen on two legs.
One day we brought him over to practice and played a song Sam wrote about a dead hamster called Now That You're Gone. That day we found out Graham could play piano. He was good and fun to play with, so we asked him to join the band.
That was the point where we started taking ourselves seriously. Up to that day we were known as Nuke the Moon, but with this new state of mind we decided to start a new project that would be called Times New Roman.
We're now writing songs that are sounding considerably good. Once each new song we write is completed and ready for the public's ears it will be up here.
We've gone through countless band members and countless name changes, but from now on we stand for the preservation of original material and looking fly.
The piano on Change Your Mind.. is good. Yup, that's all I have to say. I mean there's more. But hey. Good job lads. You're all fine modern gents. Even though I only two of you.
GRAHAM
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