I decided that we needed a more in-depth biography. So slip into something comfortable and get a cup off coffee, and get ready for a long read.
Dons Formula 88 was formed three years ago, in my (Tony) basement. My old band American No One, who I played bass for, had recently broken up and I was in a rut about not being in a band any more. So I decided to borrow my friend Chris’s guitar and amp and start to learn to play.
About a year before this the same friend and me were at work, (which happened to be a nursing home where we worked in the kitchen) and we saw a bottle of old cleaning solution. It was called Don Formula 88. Chris said that would be a cool band name. So that’s how we got our name.
So I had a guitar (which was a piece of crap) and amp (which also sucked but less then the guitar) and I had started to play (if you can call it that) but I needed a drummer.
~Enter stage left.... Nate~ So Nate had played drums in American No One in its later days and was starting to get pretty good, so it only made since to ask him to play with me. We started to jam soon after I started playing guitar, and we had written a few songs (like two) but we were missing something important. We needed a bass player.
~Enter stage right... The friend... Chris~ So Chris wanted to play bass. He knew nothing about it at all, but neither did Nate or I about our own instruments, so it was ok. Chris and I got him a bass at an awesome music store that is now closed, and we jammed that day. It was cool, we sucked but it was cool.
We wrote about five songs over the next couple of months bringing us to June, which so happened to be the same time we had our first show...Imagine that.
We had music but no lyrics, which is a problem if you have to play in front of a crowd. So we got to writing that week. Our show was on Friday, and we started writing that Monday. We wrote lyrics to five songs and practiced them like crazy. The show went surprisingly well, we had five songs and two covers (Blitzkrieg Bop and Hey Suburbia), one of which we still play. Instead of booing us, the crowd cheered us on and seemed to want more.
In May of 2003 we recorded a very rough demo in the computer lab of my school (MMI) and burned many copies and handed them to anyone and everyone who would take a copy. It was received well but it wasn’t anything that we could be proud of.
We played more shows and got better...
This past winter we went into an actual studio and recorded a nine-song, full length [you can hear songs from it if you (a) buy a copy & (b) download one from our music section] entitled Two Sticks & Two Picks. It sounds really good and we're really happy with it.
Now we plan on playing tons of shows and trying to make new friends in he process.
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