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Born out of a love for country and rock music this Los Angeles quintet has become one of Southern California's most innovative and genre crossing bands. Formed in the summer of 2002 by Bobby Gonzales and Jimmy Harrison, these former band mates were looking to do something musically closer to the sounds they had found themselves being drawn to. "Bobby and I had found ourselves drifting more and more into roots based music," Jimmy recalls. With the addition of good friend Jason De Meo soon thereafter the three set out to create the music and sound that would become West Coast Grand. "When Jason joined us we knew we had that key element needed to solidify this project," Gonzales adds. After stumbling onto the country rock scene in Los Angeles they soon gathered a loyal following along with a family of other like minded musicians with the same interests and focus. "We walked into the King King club one night and discovered that country rock existed in LA," Jimmy enthuses. With the addition of Chris Parker and James O'Connell West Coast Grand had now become a full fledged band. They had recorded a few songs at Monkey Den Studios in Silverlake, CA as a three piece and now had the means to play them true to form in the local clubs that had begun fostering this underground but burgeoning scene. "We needed a couple of other players to pull it off live and since this band was more friends based than anything else Chris and James were the obvious choices," Gonzales says. Now with the release of their first full length album on Red Parlor Records along with guest appearances on Doc Holiday's "Watusi Rodeo" on Indie 103.1 and Cowboy Nick's "Toe Tappin Music" radio show on KXLU West Coast Grand is about to set out and let the rest of the world know about this band and the kind of music they play.

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Member Since: 3/16/2005
Band Website: westcoastgrandmusic.com
Band Members: jimmy Harrison Bobby Gonzales Jason DeMeo Chris Parker Jaime O'Connell
Influences: Townes, Stones, Brian Pusey, The Smiths, Rex Moroux, Portishead, Shilah Morrow, Steve Earle, Tom Petty, Wilco, Black Crowes, CCR, The Ringers, Grandaddy, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jay Z, Tim Easton, Blizzard of 78, Paul Williams, Lucinda, Willie, Jeff Buckley, The Faces, Midlake, ....The list goes on and on and on...

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Record Label: Red Parlor Records
Type of Label: Indie

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New Review...Nemski.com

One of the things that has always attracted me to country music is how you can travel from one extreme, say Mountain Sprout, to another extreme let's say Los Angeles' West Coast Grand. The self-titl...
Posted by West Coast Grand on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:23:00 PST

2 Brian Pusey Classics

Brian and I recorded 2 songs at Monkey Den Studio with Jaime O'Connell in Silverlake. few years back. These 2 I picked with Brian but they really are 2 of my favorites. I believe it was the closest h...
Posted by West Coast Grand on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:56:00 PST

RKID

I lost a brother today. I'm not sure he would approve of me putting this up on myspace of all places. However, I remember when Friendster first came about Brian loved it. We loved the bullshit n...
Posted by West Coast Grand on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:02:00 PST

VOTE FOR WCG! RIGHT NOW!

hey everyone, West Coast Grand has been nominated for Outstanding Americana Band in the 13th annual Rock City Awards Show. THE ROCKIES!the awards show will be at BB Kings and Universal CityWalk. Dec...
Posted by West Coast Grand on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

West Coast Grand Record Available in the UK

The WCG debut record is now available in the UKhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/West-Coast-Grand/dp/B000SO7OWU/ref =sr_1_2/202-2292195-1863064?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1192 025351&sr=8-2Thanks for all you...
Posted by West Coast Grand on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:43:00 PST

Sin CIty: A Rock-u-mentary

The Sin City documentary that Jamie made has moved to our VIDEO page!!!
Posted by West Coast Grand on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:24:00 PST

NEW WCG RECORD

We're working hard on getting a new record together. We recently lost our drummer/everything man. Good luck to the O'Connell family, you'll be missed.We're very excited about all of the new ideas and...
Posted by West Coast Grand on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:22:00 PST

WEST COAST GRAND ON NEWPORT HARBOR

West Coast Grand will have the song West Coast Grand in the final episode of Newport Harbor. Chek out MTV.COM for info.
Posted by West Coast Grand on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:17:00 PST

Record release today 7/10

..> Our new record on Red Parlor is available today on Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and also on itunes.We just returned from a bunch of dates on the East Coast and we'd like to thank everyone who ...
Posted by West Coast Grand on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:21:00 PST