Chris Jessup, Freddie Knuckles, Jonathan Grimes, Joshua Nee
Influences
Our Lady Peace, Foo Fighters, Blind Melon, Live, Incubus, Jimmy Eat World, The Mars Volta, The Hold Steady, Ted Leo, At the Drive In, Elvis Costello, Mike Patton, etc.
Yellow Light Go, hailing from Baton Rouge, LA, was formed in the ‘winter’ of 2004. What started out as the random musical ideas left over from a previous, and now defunct band turned into actual songwriting sessions between long time friends Chris Jessup and Joshua Nee. The two began an on-the-side musical endeavor with Baton Rouge drumming veteran, Joey Breland (Chris Leblanc Band, Warbabies, Mike Pinter 4) and feverishly began churning out the songs that would become the core of Yellow Light Go sets. Nee’s sexy roommate, guitarist Spencer Johnson, joined soon thereafter and the newly founded quartet was on its way, playing its first shows to very responsive crowds at The Caterie and North Gate Tavern. A slight roster change saw local jazz drummer phenom Jonathan Grimes replace Breland behind the drums and the lineup was complete.
With the personal inflections of each member’s distinct musical stylings evident in each song, Yellow Light Go offers a fresh look at pop rock. While one song resembles At the Drive-In, the next may be reminiscent of Guster. Defying any kind of all-encompassing classification, Yellow Light Go’s sound remains a curiously fresh one, prompting music listeners and fellow musicians to admit they are totally awesome. You will fucking shit yourself. Really.
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We are going to everyone of our friends and personally asking them for their help in the making of our next record!
What can you do to help you ask? Well, buy our record. That is what we need you to do most, and of course tell your friends that don't know about us, yet!
On our page, we have some sneak peeks of our upcoming album titled "Distance". Weekly we will also be posting new songs and videos so keep checking back!
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so just to let you guys know... we went to houston yesterday... and on the way back it took about 4 hours (we made a few stops)... and we jammed yalls cd about 291034723598 times!!!! haah looved it!
