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On October 5, 2008, EGYPT CENTRAL officially signed a record deal with Fat Lady Music/ILG distributed by ADA. The CD will be remixed with new artwork and released to retailers nationwide on January 22, 2008.Paul David Hager who did the remix on EGYPT CENTRAL's first major release single, "You Make Me Sick," remasted the entire release.To view more of Paul's work, check out his extensive line of work at AllMusic.com.Paul has recorded and/or mixed the new Goo Goo Dolls single "Before It's Too Late" for the Transformers Movie, Avril - "My Happy Ending," American Hi Fi - "Hearts on Parade," and "Rock and Roll Noodle Shop," The Donnas - "Gold Medal Lit," "Looks Like They Were Right," and more.Pictured from left to right is HEATH HINDMAN (guitar), JOHN FALLS (vocals), Mike Lynch (representing Fat Lady Music/ILG), BLAKE ALLISON (drums), standing in the back: JEFF JAMES (guitar), and JOEY CHICAGO (bass).Sound that knocks you down, gives you a lift from:fwdailynews.com by Dave KurtzTake a good look at the buildings around the DeKalb County Fairgrounds in Auburn.They might not all be standing when the fair’s first big-time rock concert ends, two months from now on the night of Sept. 28.Well known for its country concerts, the fair is partnering for the first time with FM radio station 98.9 The Bear as a concert sponsor. The station chose rising rock stars EGYPT CENTRAL to headline the first show."The reason we did the fair is it’s the first time we could play for all ages," said Mark O’Toole, the band’s manager. The band usually plays in places off limits to people under 21."It’s cool to be able to come and play at the fair and give the kids here a cool show," said JOHN FALLS, the group’s lead singer.The band may appeal to young people, but its self-described biggest fan comes from an older generation."The show is so fantastic. They just appeal to everybody," said Jacque Gould, assistant manager at Fire Mountain restaurant in Auburn. "You have to see them in person. They are fantastic. Every song has a meaning. Every song gets to you."Gould owns Grade A Tattoos in Fort Wayne and met the band members when they played at Piere’s night club next door. That’s why the band stopped at Fire Mountain for supper on a swing through the Midwest earlier this month.Outfitted in the required uniform for hard-rocking musicians — all-black clothing, outlandish hair and enough tattoos to make Gould’s cash register play "Stairway to Heaven" — EGYPT CENTRAL projected an intimidating attitude. All show. The musicians turned out to be thoughtful and engaging young men.They were a long way from home, but that turns out to be Memphis, Tenn. — not Egypt. The band’s name comes from a road in Memphis that runs through the tough part of town."It was a way to not be able to deny our roots, ever," said bass guitar player JOEY CHICAGO, who carries his own hometown in his stage name.Fort Wayne is fast becoming a second home to the band. Their audio guru hails from Fort Wayne. So does a music industry executive who has taken them under his wing. Test markets for their song, "Over and Under," included Memphis, Tallahassee, Fla., and Fort Wayne, and it brought an enthusiastic response on The Bear."People love rock music in this part of the country," Chicago said."It’s a big deal when radio decides to take a chance on a band, especially a young band. The Bear took a chance on us," Falls said.EGYPT CENTRAL has been together since 2001, and the band is finally "getting to the very beginning of where we want to be," said drummer BLAKE ALLISON. But success wouldn’t be sweet without a struggle, the band members say.Listen carefully behind the hammering beat, and the lyrics are "putting a real message across that really has something to say," Falls said."We realize just how important your role is as a musician," Chicago said about the band’s responsibility. "If you don’t take it seriously, you’re leading people astray."Taking responsibility seriously would seem to run a risk of getting you thrown out of the black-clad musicians’ club, but EGYPT CENTRAL wants to portray honesty and positive messages, the young men said."We want people to feel good about listening to our music and overcoming obstacles in life that can really slow you down," Chicago said.Falls, the band’s founder, added, "That’s definitely the whole point of EGYPT CENTRAL."If the sound doesn’t knock you down on Sept. 28 in Auburn, maybe the lyrics will give you a lift.
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From the producer who brought you 30 Seconds To Mars, Staind, Atreyu, Velvet Revolver, Linkin Park Live and 10 Years comes the debut, self-titled, album, screaming from the ghetto of Memphis, EGYPT CENTRAL. Drug Addictions and rehabs, done them both. Pulled through foster care and watched our families crumble, done that. Been homeless and lived off of three dollars a day, done that. Signed a major label contract and dropped a year later, done that too. So what! This album tells the story of our lives in progress, an ever changing collage of lost love and found frustration. This is the soundtrack for the broken days of a group determined to rise above what everyone has always told them, and succeed. These are the anthems of a people who will not stand back and watch life pass them by.From a street in the north part of Memphis, Egypt Central has been together about five years. They pride themselves on their intensely passionate lyrics about overcoming the obstacles of life and love and the ability to move you with thundering, moody, groove oriented music. Their self released debut album has sold close to 7000 units in Memphis in several months. With a remarkable first week of sales, their cd debuted as number 1 independent release in the Memphis market. In some Cats Music store locations the Egypt Central release blew down the doors outselling new releases by Coldplay and the White Stripes. The groups fame had developed rapidly from the early support of local venue New Daisy Theater owner Mike Glen and Mike Killabrew who was formerly MD at 93X-WMFS. As the power of airplay from CBS Radios commercial alternative station 93X-WMFS and PD Rob Cressmans conviction rose, so did the demand for the release. Best Buy started calling the band asking how they could carry the record. Finally, Select-O-Hits distribution jumped in ordering 200 300 at a time to supply the retail monster with units. Egypt Centrals album continued to fly off the shelves. This success has resulted largely from many nights pounding the pavement with self promotion, friendship and unshakable belief.There is no time for a pity party. Your life is what you make of it. John Falls (front man) would be the first to tell you this having firsthand experience at it after spending his childhood as a ward of the state. A few of the members of Egypt Central (affectionately known as EC) have had to weather and overcome their fair share of hard knocks child abuse, drug addiction, emotional instability early on in life between the ages of 2 15. The five of them found a safe haven in music where they could feel the security, acceptance and stability theyd never known. A brotherhood formed from the music they wrote together to extinguish being an outsider and embrace anyone whod ever felt those fears of being left out. Music is about having a good time and expressing the crazy emotions that go on inside as a human being, whether youre the writer/creator or the listener/viber.John lost sight of his path for a moment at fifteen when he fell into gang activity, selling drugs and rebelling against authority. Fortunately for John, good friends inspired him and encouraged him to a new way of life through music. This began the journey to piece together a band and find his success in music. In late 2002, Johns gift of persuasion convinced the strikingly handsome guitar man Heath Hindman to join him on his quest.The two were nearing their breaking point when they heard a drummer boom from down the hall at a friends rehearsal spot. Heath knew who it was and that this was the drummer they needed. He told John to talk his magic and convince the young prodigy Blake Allison - to join their group. Blake told John that he might do it but that he only played with one bass player and that they came as a pair. Blake called his best friend and fellow musician Joey in Chicago with the proposition of leaving a different scene and trying mainstream rock. Months of private conversations between the two followed. Blake and Joey decided to join John and Heath but not without sacrifice - Blake dropped out of college and Joey moved to Memphis. Now the core of the band was finally realized.For the next few months the group wrote and wrote and wrote, every night sweating out the new style of music, and smashing many styles into one. The foursome wanted a second guitar player - it had been an idea from the beginning. They tried out a few situations that didnt work out to their liking and moved on knowing the right person would come along someday. They recorded a demo with Nikos Lyras in Memphis. Only a few months later Andy Shane, senior director of A&R at Lava heard the demo online. He played the demo of Over and Under to his boss former Lava CEO Jason Flom. Finding the demo incredibly impressive, Jason jumped on a plane two days later to see the bands show. He offered them a record deal with Lava immediately after seeing the live performance which had only been their eighth show ever. The debut album was recorded with Josh Abraham (Velvet Revolver, Korn, Limp Bizkit) in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, once the record was finished, EC was confronted with an onslaught of troublesome experiences including an IPO situation that dissolved their major label deal ...yet they rose to beat down every conflicting situation thrown at them. Egypt Central remained everything that they stand for and overcame those unforeseen obstacles of life and hard times. They hold true to their belief of your life is what you make of it. Everything is possible. There is no time for pity. THESE ARE "MY GUYS" AND I AM THRILLED TO BE SHARING THEM WITH THE WORLD. EVERYONE IS GOING EHYPT CENTRAL CRAZY. AND I KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN, WHEN I SAW THEM OVER EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO ON STAGE AT PIERE'S. I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH THEIR MUSIC, AND THEY ARE SWEETEST GUYS ALIVE.NOW WHO COULD NOT LOVE THESE GUYS? HAHAHAHAHEY MOM LOOK WHAT TRENT DID TO THE BABY
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Spreading the Sickness from: shockwavemagazine.com by Vince AndersonEvery once in a while I'll hear a new song on the radio and I'll be drawn to find out more about the band, case in point, the song, "You Make Me Sick" by EGYPT CENTRAL. It's just one of those songs that you could sing to an ex-girlfriend or somebody. I had been hearing the song at night on the radio so I decided to look the band up on Myspace but apparently there were several EGYPT CENTRAL spaces, so I chose one with their song on it. This site was lame, no picture and not much else, I was a bit discouraged because I was thinking of interviewing the band. Like the next day I get and e-mail form their publicist saying the band is doing interviews. Shortly after the band comes to Baltimore and I sit down with vocalist JOHN FALLS and I proceeded to tell him how lame the band's Myspace was. John acted as if I punched him in the gut, as he doubled over on the couch, apparently he couldn't believe that anyone could say this whether it was true or not. After John recovered from my brutal attack of the band's Myspace we determined that what I saw was actually a fan site, so make sure you visit the right site, or the band will be hurt and maybe even offended. Sorry guys. Anyway this is pretty much how our conversation went that night.Shockwave: What do you think that you guys bring to the table (musically)? John: One thing I think we bring is something that's been lacking for a long time...honesty in our music. We're five different guys that like five different things, we don't try to conform to each other, we all just let each other do what they were really doing and we really made it come together, and I think that has given us our own sound. I think what's really been missing, for me, I think is the reason that there's been bad muci for a long time, and I think we're giving our best shot at making really good music, just being really honest. I think that's the reason bad music really exsists, is the lack of honesty, people performing in bands that really don't belong in bands. I also think that we try to bring something to the live show that's been lacking for years. When you used to go see a band there was a real performance, there was something...you went home excited. You know? You din't just go and listen to the same songs, you weren't just watching somebody play because they can play an instrument. You've got a cousin that can play an instrument or an uncle or maybe you play. So I think we try to bring a sense of orginality, bring something fresh, bring the passion back to music.SW: You guys were on Ozz-Fest and Family Values. Did anything interesting happen? Did you get to hang out with Jon or Ozzy? John:I got to meet Zakk Wylde, he was really cool and he knew the band name, which was totally cool and he like said "Hi" and called the band name out, and I was like wow, Zakk Wylde knows the name of our band, it was really cool. Actually man all the bands that were on Ozz-Fest were really cool to play with, like I didn't know how they would take us, cause we're not really a "Metal " band, and there's a lot of Metal this year, It's Ozz-Fest, it's Metal. So, for us, we didn't know how we were gonna be received, but we were really taken in. They really took the band and welcomed us with open arms. Then to go over to Family Values which is what I think our genre was, we make a little bit more sense. It was different but it was still cool and it was all in respect, and it was a very competitive nature but everybody was still just as friendly. It was like everybody was friends, but you could see there's people that are on the charts were doing different things, but it was really cool over on that end too. Actually everybody from Korn and Evanesscence all came out and watched us, it was really cool and we made a lot of friends.SW: What do you like about the state of Rock and Roll now? There seems to be a lot of Emo, Screamo. JF: That Emo is ending. Honestly, the fact that Emo is...It's not that I dislike the music, I just dislike anything that people start copying, and mimicking. You can't say that Emo is bad, the music is amazing. The Used are amazing My Chemical Romance is great, I mean there are bands that are unbelievable and are good at what they do. Hawthorne Heights is a great band, I mean there are great bands that are at the top of their genre that are great but any time something becomes a sub-genre, it's like, that's really just Rock, but when they label it "Emo" it's kind of like...you know, but once you sub-genre it like that...It's like there's Punk Rock, but then there's Pop Punk, there's Rock but then there's Grunge, then there's Rap Rock. Any time you sub-genre something I think that it tends to play itself out. Any time something comes to an end, and I'm not saying that I'm happy it's coming to an end because I'm happy that it's phasing out, or that we're gonna move past that because I think there's always going to be people that still play that type of music, what'll happen is I think it force something new to come out, and any time we're creating new music as musicians and as bands, that's a good thing.SW: Prior to becoming a musician, what types of jobs did you have? JF: Oh, God dude. I've done everything from construction to restaurants, my family owns a restaurant. I've delivered pizza for Papa Johns, Domino's, I've done every crap hole job that you imagine. I've also tried to do crazy jobs, outlandish. I think we all collectively changed jobs once a week, we're horrible at jobs. I think that's how we knew we were supposed to be musicians, because of how bad we sucked at regular jobs. We were really bad at it. I mean everybody has got a friend or a family member that's bad at working a job but we were really bad.SW: Tell me a little about the foster care, and rehab, etc that I read about...I've been in at least one of those, so, I'm not going to say which one but. JF: Well um, the rehab was somebody else in the band, but I did grow up in foster care. And it wasn't so much foster care but I was in the states custody, and they tried putting me in some foster homes, but it wasn't really my thing, I knew I had family, I was like I don't need somebody elses mom or dad, or somebody trying to play mom or dad it's not really my type of thing. I've spent more time in group homes, children's homes and institutions, that to be honest, I guess for some people it's a tough way to grow up but to me, you can look at it as a negative thing or you can look at it as a positive thing. I got to hang out with more kids on that average basis, like at any given time I had six or seven brothers at a time in the house that you know is that there are cool things about it, there were things that definitely sucked, you didn't have the freedoms of a normal child. You couldn't just walk out of the house when you wanted to, just normal things that you take for granted, but it's better than what happens to some kids. The fact that we have programs like that in this country is a great thing and I think that it actually helps benefit kids, and that's something that I actually hope to become part of and help, become part of different foundations, work with different organizations That is something that I aspire to do myself, that is to work with kids that are growing up in a similar environment to what I did.SW: What would be the ultimate thing for you to do in Rock and Roll? JF For me personally...I think for the band we would all have five different bands or artists all come together and do it. I don't know dude, to be honest with you, there is a lot of people who I've looked up to but the greatest thing I can imagine is what I get to do every night and that's to play with the other four dudes in the band. I mean we really are brothers in every sense, I mean we have fought, we have screamed, we have argued to the extent that most relationships don't make it back form but we always still stuck together we really are family, so the fact that we that we get to get up everyday and still do this...the next show is the greatest thing that I get to do.SW: Good answer. Who would you say is the most annoying celebrity right now? (As John struggles to come up with an answer, we wait) JF: I've gotta think of one that's really on my nerves.Immediately the first one would be Britney Spears, but she doesn't really annoy me. I think she's great, I think she's playing everybody like a flute.I'd like to give a shout out to Britney. Do your thing girl. The media, that's who, that's the most annoying, the media picking on celebrities.SW: If you had a dream, you kind of touched on one, but...What would it be, world peace? What would your ultimate dream be? JF: Like if I had a wish, I guess? (with his most southern sounding voice) One with...Hmmm, what's her name? (as he seems to be imagining the most beautiful women in his head) I would like to think that world peace is a possibility, I don't know, peace is possible, but I would say maybe that everybody could learn to co-exist and leave each other alone. Let everybody kind of do what they are doing.SW: So what are you going to do with your first million dollars, or royalty check? JF: I'm going to try not to screw it up. You know what? I'm going to buy really nice things for all the people who have supported us, I'm going to try to pay back all the kindness that's been payed to me. All the people who have had to buy me McDonald's a million times to keep the five of us alive, people who have had to give us a ride...Go fill their car up with gas and I'm going to have to rent a McDonald's for a whole day and give away double cheeseburgers. Just try to repay all the kindness.
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