Back in 2005, two guys who played guitar aquired a bass guitar. Little did they know, this would spawn a mess of gigs and a future of rock and roll. Those two guys were Pete "Moss" Antoniadis and Erik Klyve.
Only having played guitar for about a year, they had started an acoustic trio with a friend from school called "Sauce Rocket", and did mostly covers, nothing spectacular. They didn't play shows, and the only people who really heard them were the parents who happened to be nearby while they played. This was soon to change.
The school Pete and Erik went to had been putting on amateur shows called "Coffeehouses", and this caught the eye of the aspiring musicians. They decided to play a Coffeehouse that was coming up in November of 2005. The third guitarist of their "band" turned down the opportunity to play a real show, which forced Erik and Pete to go in search of a drummer.
Scott Marsh was the younger brother of a friend of Pete's, and they had a drum kit. The boys rented a bass from the local music store and headed over to jam. All went well, and they decided to play the upcoming show. Armed with a few covers, they played Coffeehouse, and learned what it was like, to be a band.
Soon after the show, Pete got a phone call from his father. He said that he had gotten some studio time from a friend of his brother's. This friend, was J.P Reimans, from the legendary Grant Avenue Studios(U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb) His dad told Pete that he had to write some material to record. Pete called Erik and Scott immediatly after the phone call. He told them the situation and asked if they wanted to start a real, full time band. The ball was in motion.
Pete had never really written a sturdy song before, and now he was being rushed into writing a trio of rock songs to record. The three agreed on starting the band, naming it "Sauce Rock-it", a spin off of the original bands name. With the formation of the band, the boys started writing their first songs.
A month or so later, December nearing the end, Sauce Rock-it had written three songs. Wave of Broken Meaning, Iggy, and Today is the Bad Day. They headed into the studio on early morning, and got straight to work. They were to have about 3-4 hours of recording time, live, off the floor songs. Around the end of the second song, they took a break, only to find that a snowstorm had kicked up outside, and were....well....Snowed in. This was a good thing of course, because it granted Sauce Rock-it a little more time in the studio. They finished the songs, worked on vocals, mixed, mastered, and burned off their first cd, Sauce Rock-it, a self titled ep. Now we would see the people's reaction to this trio.
The band had a friend photograph them, and print a hundred copies of it out for the cover of their Self-title. They bought a few cases of blank cds,burned the songs on to every one, and had a record, ready for release. They sold a few to family and close friends, but were saving the main release for the next Coffeehouse at their school. This is where they would show their music to the bulk of their student body. They practiced their 3 songs and a few covers, and prepared for the upcoming show.
It was February of 2006, and Coffeehouse had arrived. That night, Sauce Rock-it had their first real performance as a band. They played a 5-song set, and the crowd went wild. They sold their records to anyone who had a few bucks on them, and people were really starting to like them.
Pete got in touch with a contact he had through a friend, and organized their next show, at a place called "The Kathedral" in Toronto, Ontario. A World-Tour compared to the show in their school cafeteria. They drove out on the night of the show, and played their set, with another great response from the crowd. They headed back to Hamilton, to begin writing more songs, and lining up more gigs.
A few months later, they had written a handful of new songs, played a fair share of shows with bands like Porcelain Youth, Faceless Tomorrow, High Voltage, and 40 Sons and Daughters. By this time, they had scratched together some money from T-shirt sales, cd sales, and payout from gigs. 40 Sons and Daughters told the guys about a deal with Mastermind Studios whereas if they bring in a band, and they record 4 songs, the band that brought them in gets a free song. Sauce Rock-it was ready to record another album.
Pete, Erik and Scott went on a tour to Mastermind studios to check the place out, see what the deal with recording was. Please with what they heard, they agreed, and signed up to record 4 songs. These 4 songs would form the album known as "Igneous Rock". The songs took about a month and a half to record. They decided to put a live song they got from Coffeehouse a while back on the cd too, as well as an acoustic song they recorded themselves. Complete with a few segments of talking, the album was ready.
They decided to throw their cd release at the "Legendary Corktown Tavern" in Hamilton, and plugged the release on Ric Taylor's radio show on 93.3 CFMU. The opening acts were The Platonic Shadows, Faceless Tomorrow, Moose Factory, and First Flight Out. The turnout was great, and put on an amazing show.
The band kept playing hundreds of shows, and built up their buzz around town. After one show they played at the Underground, They were approched by the owner of Tyneside studios. He offered them a spot on a Compilation cd of local rock bands. The band, eager to get back to recording, happily accepted the offer. They recorded a newly written song called Out of Phase, and played the release show at The Westside Theatre in Hamilton, with a ton of other bands. The release was a great success, with hundreds of people showing up.
Sauce Rock-it continued to play shows, and increase their popularity, playing their music for anyone who would listen. Having such a great experience with their last recording session for the Compilation cd, the band decided to record a full-length album with Tyneside studios, which is due out mid 2008.
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