Artist description Hard rock band out of Jackson, Mississippi. We are very focused on writing music and not covering it.

Music Style hard rock

Musical Influences Deftones, Led Zeppelin, KISS, Fuel

Artist History (This was written by bassist Daniel Glass)This story takes place in Jackson, Mississippi and the surrounding suburbs. In September of 2000, after almost two years of playing bass, I (Daniel Glass) decided I was ready to play in a band. My first real band had been a one-time thing at summer camp, called The Skittles. We’d performed Nirvana’s "Rape Me" for a talent show, having to change the lyrics to the less offensive "ice tea," and "scraped knee," etc. I put up an ad in Morrison Brothers music, and replied to another: a hand-scrawled note on a piece of white paper, looking for a bassist. Armed with only an economy model Hamer bass and a 12" Rogue amp (the cheapest on the market) I called this number and spoke to a Jeremy Gray, a senior at Murrah High School. He was the singer in an as-yet unnamed band. He also had a guitarist, Pierre Moore, a junior, and a drummer, Zachary Wolfe, a sophomore, also from Murrah. Jeremy spoke excitedly of a pending $1,200 deal upfront from a friend of his, and seemed to have ambitions and hopes. I got my hopes up of using the 12 hundred dollar 4-way split to buy myself a new amplifier and a great bass. I met with the "band" at Jeremy’s house later that week. Jeremy, a big strapping fellow, was there with Pierre, a promising musician. Jeremy was a nice enough guy, and Pierre was a quick-learner as well as a talented guitarist. Pierre introduced me to the skeleton of one of his two-chord songs. "Well, you’re in," declared Jeremy, before the practice/meeting disintegrated into conversation, which eventually turned from music to band names, and then to Jeremy’s ever-oddening social life, which was so incredibly weird and morbid that I won’t go into it here. Jeremy left several times to take calls from his girlfriend, and Pierre gently tried to hint to me that maybe Jeremy wasn’t as interested in the band as he should be; after all, he didn’t sing a note the entire time I was over there. We didn’t get much accomplished that day. Later, I had a depressing practice with Pierre and our drummer Zachary Wolfe. Once again, not much was accomplished. Jeremy was unavailable. That was the last time I practiced with that unnamed band. When Pierre asked me if I wanted to split, I decided that I should take him and form a new band. A kid in my English class noticed my Led Zeppelin shirt and commented that he was a fan. It turned out that he was in the wrong classroom, and left several minutes later. But then he began to ride my bus and I discovered he lived in my neighborhood. Nathan began to tell me about his old band, I asked him if he could sing, hoping to salvage the band I already had. Nathan came over to jam, but we didn’t know many songs in common, so we couldn’t do much yet. I wasn’t sure of the format of the infant band, but I did know that if I had two guitarists, I needed a drummer. Zach Wolfe’s position across town and his pursuit of other hobbies made him a hard prospect to get in touch with. I asked a mutual acquaintance (Forest Adcock, bassist from Fallen Short) if he knew any good drummers, and he told me about Zach Bohannon, a drummer without a band. I’d seen Zach around in the halls. We met, and discovered we had similar musical tastes. Zach's excellent metal-influenced drumming was perfect for what I had in mind. The first jam sessions were held at my house. Zach, Nathan, and I got together and did several jams, only one of which made it to hard copy, a jam on Led Zeppelin’s "The Lemon Song." Nathan turned out to be an extremely capable guitarist. When we learned about an upcoming Battle of the Bands, we made it our priority to record several songs and send in an audition tape. We taped some cover songs, and a couple of our own. They featured no vocals, and Nathan wasn’t able to attend the sessions. We chose which songs to send, and submitted them under the name of Liquid Alcatraz. Long after we’d forgotten about the contest, I got a letter telling me we’d been selected. Now it was only a matter of practicing two songs for the Battle of the Bands. When the guitarists didn’t like "Liquid Alcatraz" the name was changed to "Johnny on the Spot," then promptly changed back when we discovered six other bands with the same name. We got ahold of a cheap microphone, and I became the singer. The Battle of the Bands was fun. It was under 20 degrees on the outside stage. Things seemed to work against us, but we rocked out. The Dust Band won the thing, but they deserved it. We got a lot of compliments. It was the start of something big And so begins the next chronicle of us...

Group Members Guitar and Vocals - Pierre Moore, Lead Guitar - Nathan Sutton, Drums - Zach Bohannon

Instruments vocals, 2 guitars, bass, drums

Location Madison, Mississippi - USA

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