Artist description ...a solo effort most of the time and a gathering of musician friends whenever possible...

Music Style Pop/Rock/Folk for the most part...

Musical Influences The Jam, The Church, The Waterboys, World Party, The Michael Stanley Band, REM, Cheap Trick and the rest of my record collection...

Similar Artists ...we sound nothing like The Jam, The Church, The Waterboys, World Party, Michael Stanley Band, REM or Cheap Trick...

Artist History First of all, I must confess, that the history of The Nation is very dry and very unsexy...no wild gigs...no women anxiously waiting in the dressing room...no endless touring...To dress it up as anything more than my personal songwriting pilgrimage would be a form of counterfeit mythmaking...The Nation recordings and releases range from full blown 24 track studio productions to 4 track demo sessions...I consider most of these recordings as rough charcoal sketches that could be improved upon by another artist or producer...my vocals are an aquired taste...for me, songwriting is a passionate hobby...all this business can be summed up quite simply...I thought about it, recorded it and a handful of people thought it was good...The days of delusions of grandeur are long behind me now - success is a state of mind...Greetings From The Dashboard...

Group Members Alex Stangl, JC Smith...weather and schedules permitting...

Instruments guitars, bass, drums, keyboards

Albums In 2 Years, Atmosphere, Trillium Poetry, Summerland, Love Beads, Eastside Of Nowhere, Clandestine Revival, Interior Reverb, Undertow, 7 o'clock turntable, Perpetual Music Machine, Sonic File Museum, Handmade Poems, Church Of The Broken Mind, Relics, Spirit, Refuel, Dubious Spotlight, Tracks...

Location Peterborough, Ontario - Canada

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