This is Andy from the band. Instead of having someone else write this, I'll just throw it all out there.......
Tony and I became obsessed with music around age 5. Our Mom used to play records after we went to bed. We would lay in our bunk beds and listen. One night she was listening to Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender". We can't stand this song anymore, but back then it blew our minds. The next morning we asked about the song and requested she play more. From that point on we were hooked. For our birthday we each got an Elvis record. At the time we were living in Fond du Lac. Our family moved in 1988. At the end of that school year, Tony got the chicken pox. I had to go to his classroom and clean out his desk. They were the old desks that you had to pull up the top and all of your stuff was inside. Well, I can still remember the laughter from the other students when I lifted up his desk and had to remove the Elvis pictures that were plastered underneath.
During middle school I got my first guitar. It was a really small kids guitar. I proudly posed for pictures after opening it on Christmas. Tony and I began taking guitar lesson's shortly after. My Mom would drive us from Stockbridge to Fond du Lac once a week while we had our lessons. My guitar teacher was teaching me theory while Tony's was teaching him cool bits of songs. I felt some jealousy the night I heard Tony "two hand tapping". Looking back on it I'm really grateful that we had such supportive parents. We were never good at sports but we kept them busy in the music department.
Melody Music eventually closed and we moved our lessons over to Mike's Music. Tom was playing in the school band and started taking drum lessons at Mike's. Tony and I started jamming with a high school friend. She played bass and we played guitar. I've got some cassette's of these practices....and take my word for it when I tell you they aren't very listenable. We were also releasing cassette tapes under the band name "The Brotherhood". These cassettes consisted of original songs along with parody's of other popular songs of the time.
We played in front of our 7th grade class. Mainly scraps of songs and general noodling. That was also not very listenable. I remember the teacher sitting at her desk with her hands to her ears.
Around this time we had Tom officially join our band. we played the gym for Homecoming week along with a couple other school events.
Feb of 1996 we played our first show in Appleton at Fun Luvin' on College Ave. Later that year we recorded at Smart Studios in Madison. A couple years later we put out our first album.
In 2013 we released "Closer to You" on vinyl and CD. In 2015 we were featured on an episode of PBS' 30 Minute Music Hour.
Today the original lineup (Tony, Andy, Tom) is still intact with the addition of our dear friend Phil Fendley on guitar. We play original music that pulls from different times in our lives. We're excited to perform and hope you can check us out down the road.
Tony and I became obsessed with music around age 5. Our Mom used to play records after we went to bed. We would lay in our bunk beds and listen. One night she was listening to Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender". We can't stand this song anymore, but back then it blew our minds. The next morning we asked about the song and requested she play more. From that point on we were hooked. For our birthday we each got an Elvis record. At the time we were living in Fond du Lac. Our family moved in 1988. At the end of that school year, Tony got the chicken pox. I had to go to his classroom and clean out his desk. They were the old desks that you had to pull up the top and all of your stuff was inside. Well, I can still remember the laughter from the other students when I lifted up his desk and had to remove the Elvis pictures that were plastered underneath.
During middle school I got my first guitar. It was a really small kids guitar. I proudly posed for pictures after opening it on Christmas. Tony and I began taking guitar lesson's shortly after. My Mom would drive us from Stockbridge to Fond du Lac once a week while we had our lessons. My guitar teacher was teaching me theory while Tony's was teaching him cool bits of songs. I felt some jealousy the night I heard Tony "two hand tapping". Looking back on it I'm really grateful that we had such supportive parents. We were never good at sports but we kept them busy in the music department.
Melody Music eventually closed and we moved our lessons over to Mike's Music. Tom was playing in the school band and started taking drum lessons at Mike's. Tony and I started jamming with a high school friend. She played bass and we played guitar. I've got some cassette's of these practices....and take my word for it when I tell you they aren't very listenable. We were also releasing cassette tapes under the band name "The Brotherhood". These cassettes consisted of original songs along with parody's of other popular songs of the time.
We played in front of our 7th grade class. Mainly scraps of songs and general noodling. That was also not very listenable. I remember the teacher sitting at her desk with her hands to her ears.
Around this time we had Tom officially join our band. we played the gym for Homecoming week along with a couple other school events.
Feb of 1996 we played our first show in Appleton at Fun Luvin' on College Ave. Later that year we recorded at Smart Studios in Madison. A couple years later we put out our first album.
In 2013 we released "Closer to You" on vinyl and CD. In 2015 we were featured on an episode of PBS' 30 Minute Music Hour.
Today the original lineup (Tony, Andy, Tom) is still intact with the addition of our dear friend Phil Fendley on guitar. We play original music that pulls from different times in our lives. We're excited to perform and hope you can check us out down the road.
