About Curse of the High Ride

Band Members:

Jennie - vocals/guitar
Brain - bass
Dave - guitar
Matty - drums

The Story of the Curse:

We started out in spring 2004 playing in Brain and Matt's apartment in the big bedroom. There were five of us and the neighbors would come over to listen on the weekends. This casual and usually drunken configuration was called Put Your Hands on me Jack. We'd lure unsuspecting audiences in under the pretense of a large house party every once in a while and the reaction was always good.

That summer we took a huuuuugge break and it was almost impossible to get the ball rolling again in the fall. The hope of an enormous Christmas party motivated us once more and we started practicing again...sort of. Somewhere between the beginning of December and the end of January we decided to take it seriously and try playing sober. We changed the name to Curse of the High Ride, and were now 4-members. Much to our surprise....it sounded WAY better than we'd ever imagined it could. A set date with a recording studio lit the proverbial fire under our asses. We cleaned up our act in two weeks (and spent a shit load of money in practice studios every night). As it turns out, we have climbed the Mount Everest of punk rock. We learned that once we really tried, we sounded really great.

Dave Irish over at Milano recorded us and the resulting 5 songs have been impressing our friends and Moms since we finished. We figure there should be at LEAST enough money for a 6-foot party burrito and a round at the claw machine for all once we get rich off the cd. Let us know if you want in on that burrito...you have to listen to the songs first though. beotch.

Influences:

Screeching Weasel, Teen Idols, Avail, Against Me!, Alkaline Trio, Tilt, Swingin' Utters, Green Day, Good Riddance, Saves The Day, Discount, AFI, HotWaterMusic, Rise Against, Limbeck, The Descendents, Osker, Carl's Jr. (Matt found a coupon), Strung Out, Ozma, Ultimate Fake Book, JimmyEatWorld....