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The Lazarus Effect

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The Lazarus Effect

will be a shot in the arm for post-millenium rock/metal/alternative. They are serious about having a hard edge without losing melody, song structure, and intelligibly intelligent lyrics. They have a distaste for writing the same song twice, and they are building their project out of the ashes of dead bands, modern music, and years of suffering and joy.
SHAWN STAPLES is a professional guitar instructor, grooming a lot of talent in Southern California! Shawn is endorsed by Mangan Strings, Knucklehead Strings, and Wedgie Picks and accessories. Shawn talks with his guitar more than his face.
GREG MARTINEZ has a driving and intricate sense of rhythm. He can do just about anything imaginable with a nice set of drums. Greg is a tour-seasoned player who performs like a strange hybrid of slinky and jackhammer wired to a Timex. Greg plays DW.
J. DOWNARD is the vocalist/lyricist, backing guitarist, and he plays a number of other instruments. J would love to be the first non-athelete endorsed by GATORADE, so let me know, guys...(see live pics)
Shawn and J were introduced to each other in 1996 in Columbus, Ohio. They moved to Southern California two years later and have collaborated since. They do a lot of woodshedding and multi-tracking... with both playing guitars, keys, and other instruments as well as doing some programming. Greg joined the project in '07, and has contributed a huge amount to the TLE sound.
They are currently working on recording a brand new album.
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Member Since: 08/11/2006
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/thelazaruseffect
Band Members: J. DOWNARD - vocals, guitars, sounds

SHAWN STAPLES - guitars, keyboards, vocals

GREG MARTINEZ - drums and percussion

Influences: VAST, The Bravery, Tool, The Mars Volta, Incubus, Baroness, Corrosion of Conformity, Danzig, Monster Magnet, Yes, the Who, Queen, The Cars, Weezer, Steve Miller Band, Led Zeppelin, Taproot, Foo Fighters, Faith No More, Keane, Muse, Blue October, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Orgy, Korn, Staind, Bowie, She Wants Revenge, Depeche Mode, Ministry, Sting, Rod Stewart, P.O.D, A Perfect Circle, Doobie Brothers, Beastie Boys, Flight of the Conchords, Guano Apes, Type O Negative, Coheed & Cambria, Frank Zappa, Second Coming, Haji's Kitchen, Deftones, The Doors, Metallica, 30 Seconds to Mars, 10 Years, Tenacious D, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews Band, Alice N' Chains, Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana, Maroon 5, Jeff Buckley, Primus, Wings, Paul Simon, Tim Reynolds, Joe Satriani, Earth Wind & Fire, Nine Ince Nails, Rebel Meets Rebel, Louis XIV, Radiohead, The Police, Colin Haye, Matthew Sweet, Average White Band, U2, White Zombie, 4 Non Blondes, The Killers, Enigma, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Varga, Sweet F.A., Rage Against the Machine, Journey, early Aerosmith, Linkin Park, Tom Petty, System of a Down, Snot, Billy Idol, The Apex Theory, early No Doubt, Powerman 5000, Life of Agony, 311, Pantera, Sublime, Dream Theater, Jethro Tull, Sevendust, Stone Temple Pilots, Nonpoint, Depswa, Steve Vai, The beegees, The Cure, Prince, From Zero, Cold Anthrax, 30 ot 6, Rush, Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, Garbage, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lenny Kravitz, Marilyn Manson, Eric Clapton, Brian Setzer, Black Sabbath, The beatles, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Alien Ant Farm, Megadeth, Chevelle, R.E.M. The Shins, Bright Eyes...
Sounds Like: "Whatever comes to mind. We're interested in a lot of music and write experimentally. We don't rule out the light tones, nor the heavy tones."

Record Label: http://www.myspace.com/thelazaruseffect
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

lyrics to WHAT ONCE WAS

What Once Was   Only yesterday the future shone brightly but now I'm all turned off keeping keepsakes to remind me of the old two forward and one back pressured seconds feel as if eternity yet t...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:32:00 GMT

lyrics to BELLA (reverse peristalsis)

BELLA (Reverse Peristalsis)   I'm made from parts of all who I have known I am well aware of what is all my own and you could love it all, but you don't you were sucking up all that I could shi...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:30:00 GMT

Say NO to bigotry.

  -The following is an article I wrote in December of 2005 for the Webzine www.StrangeRoad.com.  Most of the facts are still valid, as is the reasoning behind its presentation.  Chances...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:26:00 GMT

Separation of Church and State. That would be an intelligent design.

I wrote this one in January of 2006 for www.StrangeRoad.com   - J - Separation of Church and State: Dire Threats to One of the U.S. Constitution's Most Intelligent Designs by Jonathan Downa...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:16:00 GMT

J’s response to Jon Crosby’s blog "Watashi no namae wa Jon desu."

Dear Jon Crosby, You have been an inspiration to me and the rest of my band, The Lazarus Effect. The song I co-wrote and recorded alone in my bedroom, "Renaissance," probably best illustrates how much...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 00:18:00 GMT

Our name comes from the title of Frank Herbert and Bill Ransoms book...

   In case any of you were curious, our name comes from the title of Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom's book.  The second in a trilogy between The Jesus Incident and The Ascenscion Factor,...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:07:00 GMT

lyrics to MANUFACTURED

manufactured       molding new false understandings watching signs to find my lines pantomiming all the time you are all so damned demanding thinking quickly on my feet second-guessing...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:26:00 GMT

lyrics to NIGHTWALKER

you are a vampyre in the old way no fear of sunshine or of mirrors no use for biting you're an impaler and it's your words you choose for spears but your age isn't wisdom and your wings are unclean...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:30:00 GMT

lyrics to RENAISSANCE

RENAISSANCE tumbling through the wilderness between the live and dead weightless now in chasmic darkness, surrounded by myself MY BODY IS ROTTING, BUT I FEEL WHOLE hunger can no longer taunt me MY BE...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:27:00 GMT

J's "ODE TO JERRY FALWELL"

Fall Well:  Ode to Jerry Falwell the gays cannot avoid being that wayand much less so than you could help being fatlive, let live, and take full heed of thatwhen silver-spoon sucking another snac...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:34:00 GMT