Electric Gentlephones

Before Pet Virus there was Pen Cap Chew. We were a couple of guy's just trying to express ourselves in ways that only music can. The core of the band is Elias, Seve, and Louie. We all met back in 2001, but our first practice wasn’t until 2003. We started out just covering Nirvana songs but eventually started playing our own material. We mainly played at parties but we realized that party’s isn't the way to go. The current scene wouldn't reflect what we played. Then over the summer of 2004 drummer Seve and vocalist Elias had a fall out. Pet Virus was mainly at a halt at that time. Then bassist Louie forced us to practice! Eventually all was forgiven between Elias and Seve. Around this time Pen Cap Chew was now know as Pet Virus. The fall out has caused the band to practice vigorously; about four to three times a week, which is the main cause as to how we got our sound. On March 31, 2005 in our Rialto High School Talent Show was our chance to prove ourselves to a lot people who have doubted us. Good friend Jordan Sanders of the Color Of Sound played with us that night. The outcome of the show did not exceed our expectations. So we decided that we should now create more material that we would tone down, make more professional and to our liking. Around this time two of our band members, Seve and Elias, were in two different bands. Seve was in Ideal Threats for about three weeks. Elias was in a band called CFA (Cherry Flavored Antacids) for about four months but eventually he stoped playing with them. Then in the summer of 2006 band Pet Virus didn’t get to practice as much they wanted to because bassist Louie went to Oregon for half the summer. Then at the end of summer we began to practice again on our new material, which you can now hear on our demo. Thats mostly sums up what happened in the last four years. More music and more experimentation coming soon.