Artist description We are Das Bandt. What do we play? We play Spiritual Speed Blues. Don't know what that is? Then I guess you will have to listen to us.

Music Style Spiritual Speed Blues/Anything you like

Musical Influences All and none

Similar Artists Someone said Dream Theatre. We do not agree

Artist History So here we are, four years later, still fighting to reach out with our music. It might feel as if we have been standing still, but as this will show, there has been a journey to get here. During the fall term of 1999 a band was formed. It featured Ian Wainwright on drums, Jonas Elvander on electric bass, and Markus Forsberg on electric guitar. Two thirds of this band had barely touched their instruments before so the progress in the beginning was rather slow. Starting to play covers by Rage Against the Machine and generally wasting their time, not much happened, but then some songs were written, which of none were recorded, and few remembered. Even though somewhere in the back of their heads they knew what they were playing was not what generally was considered good, but there was still some originality that they felt that drove them on. Over a year after being formed, there was a certain need for a name, as they were also having their first "gig" at a music competition. After much pondering and fighting with each other, the name "Das Bandt" was taken, mostly as a joke but still it stayed in lack of anything else. Now things started rolling a bit more, with new songs being written, most of them never performed though. After having a few gigs playing covers, the first "real" gig was in the summer 2001 when their own songs were performed. Some even liked it, even though it was not a major hit. Things progressed slowly, it was all the time very hard to get any gigs, being a band with no experience and without any contacts. New songs were written constantly though and they gradually became better and so did the performance of them. Nothing really happened for a year or so except for a small group of people who grew to like the music some. But then came another creative surge and a number of songs were written, that were actually rather good. It started to become slightly easier to get gigs (still almost impossible though) so it almost felt like there was hope for us. And here we are. Our demo soon out there.

Group Members Ian Wainwright - Drums Jonas Elvander - Bass Markus Forsberg - Guitar, Vocals

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Voice

Albums Hava Nagila Sessions 2001, Das Boot(leg)

Location Uppsala, Uppland - Sweden

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