Artist description Five-Piece riff-oriented emo-band from northern NJ. Equally schooled in the seminal post-hardcore mvmt. of the early 90's as well as the classic big guitar-rock bands.U

Music Style Post-Hardcore Rock.

Musical Influences The Who, Jawbox, Failure, Led Zepplin, Sense Field, Helmet, ACDC, Quicksand, Fugazi, Foo

Similar Artists You decide.

Artist History STANDBYE (The SecretFile) - The following is a reconstruction of an interdepartmental memo retrieved by our top-notch staff. FROM: The Office of the Attorney General TO: The Office of the Director-C.I.A., TheOffice of the Director-F.B.I., The Office of the Director-Christian Coalition, The Office of theDirector-WalMart Dear Colleagues: With the oncoming approach of the end of this millennium and the beginning of the next, our worst fears have been confirmed. It has been brought to our attention that a dangerous and extremely subversive coalition has been formed between the remnants of two radical factions we feel are responsible for chaos and revolutionary upheaval in the American underground music scene. We thought we had eradicated these factions completely through past preventative actions (See files on Waco and Ruby Ridge). To our dismay, the actions did not prove one hundred percent effective. Two former members of the THREADLINE Liberated Peoples Front (Craig Cirinelli AKA The Bloodletter AKA Uh, uh, uh... and Chris Homentosky AKA Crazy Shirt AKA Ice-box Charlie) have joined forces with three former members of the United CHANDER Militia (Mark Cooper AKA Can You Drive? AKA Dude, Ti Kreck AKA Ears AKA The Pizzaman and Chris Gibson AKA Gibby AKA (The Salesman) to form the most fearsome organization yet, STANDBYE. STANDBYE can only be described as the latest and most virulent threat to true American complacency and mediocrity. Their goal is to infiltrate, subvert, and eventually overwhelm the public with music that speaks to their hearts and minds. In addition, they actually encourage people to -- prepare yourselves -- have fun! They have integrated the most radical teachings of such brazen and unabashed revolu tionaries such as Jawbox, Sensefield, Rites Of Spring, AC/DC, Quicksand, Bad Brains, Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin, to name a few, and merged them into their own highly combustible, passionate but deadly, manifesto. Craig Cirinellis over-the-top vocal s t yling allegedly caused the bloodless coup in Gondocia. The common people were so moved by his on the verge of death performances, they demanded that their government re-release recordings of The Pope Sings Pop & Then Some and Tom Jones: Live In La s V egas. Needless to say, we were quite distressed upon hearing this report since the Tom Jones record is out of print. Chris Homentoskys guitar work has been outlawed in at least seventeen third world nations because of the crushing tones produced fr o m hi s latest, world threatening invention -- the Gut CrusherAmplifier. He has been recently profiled on Americas Most Wanted for his latest scheme; using small, metal boxes powered by direct current, and then stepping on them to produce mind-altering s ounds. The bass guitar rumblings of Mark Cooper are allegedly responsible for last years mass evacuation of the U.S. PostOffice in downtown Wayville, IA. It seems the tone was so low and so fat, all of the occupants were forced to use local construction site Porta-Sans in fear that the buildings plumbing would suffer the sudden rush. Ti Krecks thunderous drumming has been determined to have caused at least three noted instances where pentagon officials swiftly placed the nations armed forces on Def-Con 4 st atus. Although all three situations were false alarms, man were those guys pissed (All agents proceed with extreme caution. The suspect is armed with two small pieces of wood and is very hungry). Not to be outdone, Chris Gibson is truly the lo o se ca nnon of the lot. Gibson was allegedly once witnessed ingesting a potentially lethal combination of Angel Dust, Pliamine, and Peanut Butter & Jelly. We believe this is what led to his madness, hence why his lead guitar work is so out there. T he combi ned forces of all of these cultural criminals must be considered the greatest threat to modern civilized vapidity. STANDBYE have embraced the rock and will use it against us. We must not be fooled. STANDBYEs approach can be as heavy and me rciless as the most anti-social metal or hard-core band. But, just when we think we have them pinned down, theyll turn the tables and produce a haze that is both poppy and ethereal. Not since The Red Scare, The Hollywood Blacklist, and Mister Ed, has our n ation b een threatened with such unthinkable concepts as producing quality recordings inexpensively, performing exciting and entertaining live shows, and creating music that has meaning with potential to move the listener to better themselves. STAND BYE have go ne so far as to suggest that Taco Bell and Subway sponsor tours since thats all musicians eat on the road. Corporate America should be mortified. Indeed, these STANDBYE people are insane. We must act against this madness. We must appoi nt ind ependent counsel to investigate further. We must hold congressional hearings (We should even dig up Joe McCarthy to run them). We must stop STANDBYE before they have a chance to enthrall the nation with their passionate and shameless call -- TO R OCK! !ˇ

Group Members Chris Gibson; Craig Cirinelli; Chris Homentosky; Ti Kreck; Mark Cooper; ((James Tsaptsinos/mgr.))À

Instruments 2 Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vox

Albums 4-Song Promo

Press Reviews (some review that compares us to van halen and quicksand to come...)´

Location Hoboken, NJ - USA

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