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The Memories

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Ahhh, how to describe The Memories... Music that makes you think about where it all went wrong and how to make it right?

"Maybe," offers Sameer with a knowing smirk.
Music that makes you feel the power of the best of times but first demands that you revisit the worst of times?
I’m "getting warmer," and said smirk is suddenly nowhere to be found.
Close as I am, I’m an outsider and I’m here for an inside opinion so it’s time to ask the man himself. So Sameer, how would you describe The Memories?
"Avante-garde latin jazz except with structure and minus the latin jazz bits."
The smirk returns. Love it. (When all else fails, let the singer do the talking...)
The Memories make pop music with hooks and are not apologetic in doing so. The best bits of the best songs of the last 60 years...and personality to boot! Hop on board while there’s still room...
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Member Since: 3/23/2005
Band Members: Sameer Tolani: Vocals, Guitar
Turner Stough: Bass
Raj Diwan: Guitar
Dave Beegun: Drums

Influences: John, Paul, & George.
Sounds Like: Ringo.

From Rebel Spirit Music : "The only problem with this debut effort from New York outfit The Memories is that you’re left wanting more of it. The four-piece have produced a beautiful thirteen-minute EP that perfectly captures the traditions of great pop/rock music before injecting their own insight and personality to the genre.Sameer Tolani’s outstanding vocal performance, reminiscent of the Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill, is full of Southern lethargy and compliments the gentle burn of tracks like ‘Scraps of Heaps’ and the EP’s closing track ‘Standby’ in which he declares (If you standby me / I will standby you / And maybe one day we’ll see the sun). ‘Radio Brown Brown’ - the opening track - is one of spirit and urgency, hastily building to a crescendo of harsh, unrelenting guitar and drum work and shows off some of the band’s more profound imagery with a tale of a historical young war hero (I was born for making history / Was wading in the swamp / ‘Til true love came along / Sailed the seas, I sailed the seven seas / The people don’t look much like me / But the soldier’s sure do / Who knew?).The worry with an EP release is that the band may never accrue enough material to follow up with a substantial LP offering but The Memories certainly have enough about them to suggest this won’t be another false dawn. Like all great memories, they’ll be back."
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