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The Pants are 6 guys who are loud, borderline obnoxious, and think they can skateboard. Formed in late 2005, The Pants started as a 3 piece with brothers Mike and Matt, and their drummer Woody. They often played together at parties, bars, and essentially any venue that you take them. In the Summer of 2006, a neighborhood friend, Jeremy, sat in on practice and sang some covers with them. After feeling a musical chemistry, the 3 of them invited him into the band.
In the Fall of 2006, the 4 of them headed into the studio to record their first demo/EP entitled "Brian Smells!", a play off of a close friend and the Suburban Legends. The album featured 4 original songs and, with the extra time available, they recorded a cover. They ended up putting these on CD-R’s and sold them at shows. Still being a budding ska band, all 50 CDs where burned on to non-music CD-Rs, which confused several fans.
After releasing "Brian Smells!", the 4 of them wanted to add horns to their ska-punk crew. Micheal came in on sax, but needed help writing horn lines, so The Pants recruited The Dans from CIO to help assist in the writing process. After writing the horn line for their song "4/20", the chemistry just seemed right, and The Pants met their stable lineup for the next year.
Over the next year and a half, The Pants played shows over the Tampa Bay Area with local and national bands alike. Then, after constant shows, The Pants attempted to record another EP of newer songs, but something always seemed to get in the way, and this frustrated them to the point of inactivity in the Fall/Winter of 2007.
After being inactive for a few months, The Pants finally started to become active and play together again with a whole new attitude towards writing and performing. The Pants then decided that in light of this attitude change, that they would lie low for the Summer of 2008 to write all new songs and come back to the scene that made them what they are today. With all that is ahead of them, The Pants are working hard to make the 2008/2009 year their 3rd and best year since conception.

We’ve shared the stage with signed bands such as.


Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer (le Pamplemousse/ Flightplan Records)
New Mexican Disaster Squad (Jade Tree Records)
Bomb The Music Industry! (Asian Man Records)
The Alcoholic Freshman (Bonfire Club Records)
The Flaming Tsunamis (Kill Normal Records)
Patent Pending (Warner Brothers Group)
Whole Wheat Bread (Fighting Records)
Long Shot Hero (Ultraskye Records)
Jet Lag Gemini (Doghouse Records)
Ceremonial Snips (Stomp Records)
Call it Arson (Kill Normal Records)
Authority Zero (Lava Records)
Beat Union (Science Records)
Lemuria (Asian Man Records)
Jah Roots (GanJah Records)
Safety (Copacetic Records)
Civet (Hellcat Records)
Suburban Legends
The Taj Motel Trio
Fatter Than Albert
Patrick Cadaver
The Pinstripes
Matt Wixson
AmRev2

We’ve shared the stage with these Floridian acts as well!

Skantly Prepared, The Blood Between, At Heart, Evolution Under Fire, The Filthy Nomads, Pleasant Problem, Is It Safe? The Carnivorous Vegans! A Dying Embrace, The Trojan Warfront, Indofin, The Madd Agents, The Abortion Twins, Defy The Darkness, The Kix, Send Out Scuds, Exodus 20:17, Carry Your Ghost, Voicing The Unseen, CIO, Broken Authority, Ann Bolynn, Arm The Poor, Degenerate Elite, Snook, For All The Unheard, TransFM, Duck for Cover, Forever More, 69 Fingers, The Gatorade Addicts, Can’t Do It, As Blood Spills Red, Audio Assassins, Fat Chance, The Sellouts Of Ska, Sexually Transmitted Funk, Sweet Kings, Brave in the Attempt, Mourning Waits, Embers will Rise, And there was Scarlet, Malison, Really Tall Ladder, Domestic Beer Selections, The Haas, Broken Self, The 5 Man A-stevencousic- Solo Project, One and Done, Skylab Hoax, Artless Spills, Muted Revolution, Call For Fire, Hopesick, The Brentford Sound, Angry Banana, Mitchy B, Fang Shooey, Rude Squad, Variety Workshop, The AA Dropouts, The Ten 13 Concept, Until Eternity, And There Was You, Here For the Forfeit, The Hero The Villain, Robots and Butterflies, The Prospect, The Sterling, The Weather Girl, John Gold, Awake in Gear, Driftline, Johnny Cakes and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypso, The Duppies, Skif Dank, Magadog, Frantic Days, Springfield Cubs.We’ve Been Apart of Festivals Such as

Tampa Ska Explosion!, Ska vs Hardcore, Skatoberfest 2, Grayumfest 5, Woodystock 2, 3, and 4, Lack of Talent Show, Skafest 2 and a Half, Skafest 2007, The Summer Crush Tour [Tampa Tour date]

- We’ve had a recognition by Dan from CIO onstage as Woody played drums for them while they headlined for Dan Potthast - We were also fortunate enough to be recognized on the 4:00 AM Sporadic Ska show on WMNF 88.5 several times

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Member Since: 3/22/2005
Band Website: geocities.com/thepantsskank/start
Band Members: Jeremy - Lead Vocals/Guitar Matt - Guitar/Vocals BarT(Mike) - Bass Woody - Drums Dan - Trumpet/Vocals Dentist - Trombone (NEW MEMBER!)Aulden - Trumpet
Influences: Jeremy: Streetlight Manifesto, Rx Bandits, ASOB, BTMI!, The Planet Smashers, Cursive, Reel Big Fish, Against Me!, BOTAR, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Bon Jovi, The Hives, and a little bit of Hot Water Music

Matt: Mike Park(in general), Mustard Plug, Mu330, ASOB/BTMI, Reel Big Fish, Suburban Legends, Less Than Jake, The Planet Smashers, DESCENDENTS, and Slapstick

BarT(Mike): Blink-182, DESCENDENTS/ALL, The Misfits, Blitzkid, Billy Joel, Screeching Weasel, The Queers, The Briefs, The Clash, Minor Threat and more than all of’em, Captain Geech & The Shrimp Shack Shooters

Woody: The Specials, Streetlight Manifesto, Less Than Jake, BTMI! The Skatalites, Patent Pending, New Found Glory, The Flaming Tsunamis, The Fad, As Blood Runs Black, Bury Your Dead, Select Start, Cobra Starship.

Dan: Suburban Legends, Reel Big Fish, The Pietasters, Westbound Train, One And Done, The Hippos, The Aquabats, The Rentals, Weezer, and Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer.

Dentist: The Taj Motel Trio, The Sweet Kings, Cake, The Eels, Pain, Rolling Stones, Reel Big Fish, The Planet Smashers, The Forces of Evil, The Littlest Man Band, Dan Potthast, and Satan

Sounds Like: Operation Ivy, Mustard Plug, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish, The Suicide Machines, The Planet Smashers, and The Chinkees
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

We’re Mentioned in The TBT Ultimate Band Guide!

"The Pants! More than half of the Pants!  singer-guitarist Jeremy Willis, guitarist Matt Bartholomay, trombonist Dan Mitchell, drummer Woody Bond, bassist Mike Bartholomay, trumpeter Dan Smyth and sa...
Posted by The Pants! [Are Actually Writing New Songs!] on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:35:00 PST

A Lot of People Have Been Wondering...

Whats going on with us? Well, here's the deal.We kinda hit a hiatus for a while. We didn't collectively play our instruments for quite some time, and I personally think its really what we needed. We j...
Posted by The Pants! [Are Actually Writing New Songs!] on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:06:00 PST

Recording Effort Part 2: Song Meanings and Lyrics

Hey everyone! Jeremy again, back with useless blog bullshit YOU don't care about *wink*. Well maybe you might care about this, or maybe not. IDK! It has occured to me (Oh who am I kidding? I'm just bo...
Posted by The Pants! [Are Actually Writing New Songs!] on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:03:00 PST

The Recording Process

What's happening, yo? That's right. We're going 80's hip hop on y'broke ass. No, just kidding. I (Jeremy) am just kinda tired and awake at the same time ("Wtf Jeremy?") ANYWAYS, we have started record...
Posted by The Pants! [Are Actually Writing New Songs!] on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:44:00 PST

Check out this event: Woodystock 2006!

Hosted By: Woody BondWhen: Friday Dec 29, 2006 at 3:00 PMWhere: Transitions Art Gallery4215 East Columbus DriveTampa, FL 33605USDescription:Woody Bond Click Here To View Event...
Posted by The Pants! [Are Actually Writing New Songs!] on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:26:00 PST

October By The Numbers

October was a crazy month for us, and since Im in a "Borders and Bounderies" mood, lets take a look at it by the numbers in a comedic fashion...5 songs recorded in 1 dayover 30 demos sold5 Shows3 diff...
Posted by The Pants! [Are Actually Writing New Songs!] on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:32:00 PST

June 1st

I just wanted to let you know, that was by far the best show I've ever play with any band I've been in. It was super fun/rad. Everyone there made the show what it was. Fantastic. Pics will be up soon....
Posted by The Pants! [Are Actually Writing New Songs!] on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:50:00 PST