Music Style Rock-Punk-Reggae-Metal-Emo-New wave

Musical Influences The Beach Boys,The Beatles, Beck, Blonde Redhead, Cake, The Cardigans, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, DJ Shadow, Danny Elfman, Everclear, Green Day, Nanci Griffith, Incubus, Jellyfish, Jimmy Eat World, Lagwagon, Less than Jake, Mad Caddies, Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell, Mozart, Nirvana, NOFX, Paper Street,The Police, Radiohead, Self, Paul Simon, Smashing Pumpkins, System of a Down, Tower of Power, Ween, Weezer

Artist History The Hanks are group of five men biochemically engineered 5 years ago by a deranged physicist in a remote chateau somewhere in the French Alps. After escaping from captivity to nearby Italy, they spent the next 4 years operating a gondola buisness in Venice, eating pizza and making love to beautiful Italian women. After one particularly torrid and tempestuous affair with a fiery Sicilian bombshell named Lucia, Josh was inspired to write his very first song. To date, he has written more than 34,978,600 songs, but he still has been heard to say that his favorite will always be his first song, "Love is Harder to Hold Onto Than a Handful of Olive Oil". Realizing he was onto something, Josh quickly made his other bio-engineered friends learn instruments, and they all moved to Hollywood, California, to pursue their dreams of having a soft drink named after them.

Group Members Josh Grondin - Vocals/Guitar, Bryan Harris - Bass/Vocals Shane Mayo - Drums, Philip Katz - Tbone/Keys/Vocals, Ben Welch - Guitar/Vocals

Location Hollywood, CA - USA

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