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About Me

the drone. started out as a duo in mid-to-late 1995, with Gerry and Cory doing acoustic numbers (taking turns with lead vocals from song-to-song) and having silly fun! the drone. then became a four piece acoustic band (with the addition of Ken Lantz on drums and Mike Teuscher on bass), but they eventually replaced Ken with Dustin Heald on drums and vocals. that version of the band played some fun shows and wrote tons of songs! sadly, the 4-man version of the band ended in about 1998 or so, but the original 2 members (Gerry & Cory) restarted the band in old school original 2-man form - 2 acoustics and 2 voices - in 2006. Ken Lantz has since returned as drummer for the drone. in December of 2007. the three of us have been working hard since then to get a chunk of songs together, so watch the skies for upcoming live sets and releases! for now, hit up this page and check out our first "demos"! recorded during 2 different nights ("Tattoo" alone was recorded the 1st), these are rather rough versoins of some of the material we may or may not be playing live soon! expect things to change a bit and settle into a more cohesive sound as we work and rework our ideas and songs, etc. etc. !!! we’ll keep you posted! -----I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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Member Since: 1/17/2007
Band Website: brrecords.com/thedrone.htm
Band Members: the drone. 2008: KEN LANTZ (drums, backing vocals) /// GERRY STUMBAUGH (vocals, guitar, backing vocals) /// CORY THRALL (vocals, guitar, backing vocals)
Influences: "Influences Now & Then": the Beatles, Violent Femmes, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Juliana Hatfield, Elliott Smith, Devo, Elvis Presley, NWA, Talking Heads, Ice Cube, Ground Round, the Pixies, Blondie, Kid Dynamo, Social Distortion, Wipers, Me & Mark, Nick Drake, Velvet Underground, the Invalids, Roxy Music, PJ Harvey, Billy Joel, the Smiths, Elvis Costello, Yo La Tango, Donovan, Kool Keith, Iggy & the Stooges, Green Day, Frank Black, the Catnips, Faith No More, the Dead Milkmen, Hoodlum Empire, Mudhoney, Too Short, Minor Threat, Bruce Springsteen, Lawsuit, Tom Waits, J Church, Glenn Branca, the Blockheads, David Bowie, Roseland, John Coltrane, Nada Surf, Alice Cooper, Kool Moe Dee, Jr. Anti Sex League, Frank Sinatra, Wolf Eyes, Motorhead, Santiago, Nada Surf, Ministry, Screeching Weasel, Burnpile, Metallica, Germs, Brian Eno, Jeff Buckley, Brotha Lynch, the Queers, Elton John, the Lids, Operation Ivy, X, Dr. Octagon, Jim Croce, the Conspiracy, David Byrne, the Clash, Greg Sage, Disciples of Ed, Alec Empire, Miles Davis, Esperanto, T Rex, Eazy-E, Superdrag, Big Black, Squeeze, Mr. Bungle, Imperial Teen, They Might Be Giants, the Jeremy Irons Project, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dog, Nick Cave, Boredoms, Puddlefoot, John Zorn, Thom Yorke, Modest Mouse, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Guided By Voices, Four Wheel Jet, Depeche Mode, Morrissey, Fly Over States, Pink Lincolns, Edaline, John Doe, Bob Dylan, Space Case, Johnny Cash, Caffeine, DJ Quick, Captain Beefheart, Pavement, Mr. T Experience, Little Tin Frog, Smashing Pumpkins, Siren, Atari Teenage Riot, Dead Kennedys, Michael Jackson.....PLUS MORE MORE MORE SO YEAH!...................
Sounds Like: da drizone. yo
Record Label: St. Rose Records and Cassetes, hand records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

lyrics for all songs here

hey!  you can find the lyrics for any of the songs we have posted right now by hitting the "lyrics" link on the mySpace music player (AKA the thingie playing our songs) coinciding with the song y...
Posted by the drone. on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:28:00 PST

4 new drone. DEMOs!!!

on this here page you will find 4 brand new DEMO recordings, done last night (3/12/2008) in a DIY style.  we hope you dig the new recordings!!!  hope to see you out and about once we get out...
Posted by the drone. on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:35:00 PST

’Tattoo’ LYRICS!

"Tattoo"i threw it all upand the ground blew it up:this flabby anti-muscleand from that side i gavesomething i'd thought i'd saveand i thought i knew me     i remember my birthday&...
Posted by the drone. on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:00 PST

No Way Out LYRICS!

"No Way Out"it's customaryto send out a warning:"I'm shrinking and fading"my roots are showingmy heart is freezingi'm slowly rottingyou were like aFair Attendant, i wasa little boythere seems to bea r...
Posted by the drone. on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:59:00 PST

NEW VERSION OF tattoo UP NOW!!!

yes!  now you can finally hear Ken with us on the drums - his first recording with us EVER - with the upload we just put up, a new version of "Tattoo"!!!!  it's a little low-fi, but who care...
Posted by the drone. on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:09:00 PST

the drone. wants to play live!!!

REPOST FOR OUR BENEFIT:--------------------------hey!got a show down the road that needs a 2-piece acoustic act to open or whatever?  we want to play a TON of shows, so send us your ideas and que...
Posted by the drone. on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:09:00 PST

where these dudes came from YO!!!

even though the drone. was started way back in 1996, i thought i'd give y'all a list of where we have been before musically, as well as where we are now in terms of projects still working.......here w...
Posted by the drone. on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:06:00 PST

NEW WEBSITE DESIGN!!!

yep, the drone. website has gone through a new build, and it is now pretty much 100 percent up to date with where we're at.........of course, you will see the new pictures on there that i posted on th...
Posted by the drone. on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:04:00 PST

NEW PHOTOS!!!!!

yeah, finally we've got some NEW photos from a practice session last night........the photos are of course here on this mySpace, in the album "the drone. 2008"!  yep!  it's that easy!!! ...
Posted by the drone. on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:01:00 PST

new live song

here is "Tattoo", taken from our live set at the Black cat, 4/28/2007 (just like the live version of "No Way Out", already on the page!).  this is another older song, and i really like this versi...
Posted by the drone. on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:07:00 PST