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U.S. DRAG

Battle Of The Bands 6/27/08 5:30 PM SD CO Fair!

About Me

If you keep on grinding through any local music scene It’s only a matter of time before you get to the core. And if you are as lucky as these four, you not only find a name but a group of musician’s with the raw talent to make it come alive .Front man and guitarist, Jimmy Grind opens his mouth and reels you in with melodic vocals. poignant and humorous lyrics and sharp hooky instrumentation.Larry Carr is a wizard of the lead guitar, who clearly understands the importance and relation of what you do and don’t choose to play.Drummer, S. Chongo Fontaine found his place, smack dab in the middle, with his aggressive driven drumming, bringing forward an infectious beat, that puts the pop in Power Pop.Dave Shavoo, brings the back beat rhythm with thumping bass and velvet backing vocals to an all time high, locking down the bands unique sound.All together U.S. Drag takes rock and roll back into uncharted waters, putting so called "popular music" down to rest (six feet under) U.S. Drag has now teamed up with quality local acts such as, Pepe’s Revenge, Dave The Butcher and Fuzz-Huzzi, putting on high energy rock shows in San Diego, L.A. and beyond.U.S. DRAG is getting ready to release their debut self titled LP, in spring 2008. U.S Drag is dedicated to providing high quality rock-n-roll that everyone can can sink their ears into and always exploring new directions. MySpace Layouts - Get This Layout

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Member Since: 3/12/2005
Band Website: usdrag.net
Band Members:Jimmy Grind: Guitar and lead vox--Larry Carr: Lead guitar and backing vox--S.(Chongo) Fontaine: Drums and backing voxDave Shavoo: Bass and backing vox
Influences: So many to mention...let us consolidate for the time being. Beatles Led Zeppelin Rush Alice Cooper Bloodrock Super Tramp AC/DC Pink Floyd Sparks New York Dolls Angel Aerosmith Black Sabbath Devo Cheap Trick Ramones The Knack Sex Pistols Girlschool Gary Numan Missing Persons ELO KingCrimson Alice Bag Band Blue Hearts Breeders The Chiefs The Bolshoi Frank Zappa X 45 Grave Killing Joke Bauhaus Shattered Faith Poison Girls GBH Undercover Larry Norman L.S.U 77's The Plimsouls Eloy Hawk Lords B-52's Oingo Boingo(80-84) The Cure Fenix Tx The Stains The Tubes Anti Nowhere League Eloy Pixies Hawkwind Cosmic Psychos Foo Fighters The Humans Rammstein 5051 Circle Jerks Fear DK Kiss (74-79) Plasmatics Talking Heads 999 Sub Humans Crass Steely Dan The Adolescents Skull Busters Iggy Pop Paul Mc Cartney Wings Ministry The Residents Primus Les Claypool Zounds Blue Oyster Cult and so much more!Live For Rock-N-Roll.
Sounds Like: Ramones-Cheap Trick-Tenactious D
Record Label: GRIND 619 RECORDS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Dial a dub, now heres the rub.

Hello everbody out there in myspace land!Well we’ve hit a few snags with the release of our debut  LP. So it looks like it’s in a state of limbo for the time being. Our producer reasu...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:12:00 PST

Whole lotta shaking goin on!

Hey now y'all, Happy New Year!!Boy howdy, the end of 2007 was something else. A lot of intense moments from getting the opening spot on The Plimsouls gig at Safari Sams (which was postponed due to an ...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:10:00 PST

And then there was four.

Hey everybody, out there in myspace land, Jimmy Grind here. Last night we tried out a bass player and it looks like we are a quartet now.I'm going back on rythym/lead guitar and it's been over th...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:29:00 PST

Its the final mixdown.

Well were comming around the bend on this long journey of making our debut LP.It's really been fun and rewarding working with Doug Graves (Royal Campaign-Dave The Butcher).He really brought out the be...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:18:00 PST

Damn!!

Friggin' backing vox are hard n stuff. LoLWe did get 5/6 of the 14 done but they were the tough ones and we came up with new harmonies that really pop! So we're really proud of that. Special shout ou...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:56:00 PST

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Posted by U.S. DRAG on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:32:00 PST

Everyone gets disappointed....

But tonight all the true rock and roll peeps.who supported the Grind 619 "Memorial Day Monster Mama Jam", were any thing but and the pack of young rock and roll diciples who came in as we were going o...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:55:00 PST

"Grind 619 Rock Show" Are you ready to ROCK?!!

Because we sure the fuck are! MySpace Ticker MySpace Ticker MySpace Ticker MySpace Ticker MySpace Ticker...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:30:00 PST

Rock 'n' Rol l Marathon 07

Hi everybody!Just wanted to let all y'all know that U.S. Drag has been chosen to play the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon this year in the 619,boyeee!All ages and free! =)Willl update with date,time and locati...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:52:00 PST

Check out this event: Grind 619 Rock Show 07

Hosted By: U.S. DRAG When: Friday Feb 23, 2007 at 9:00 PMWhere: O'Connells1310 Morena Blvd.SAN DIEGO, CA 92110United StatesDescription:U.S. DRAG Click Here To View Event...
Posted by U.S. DRAG on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:48:00 PST