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Life’s Great Tragedy

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After piecing together bands for most of his adolescence, guitarist/vocalist Patrick Merrill finally found his niche in writing music. “I’ve grown up listening to so many different genres of music and the one thing I find within all my favorite bands is their ability to write about their lives and what affects them. Each song that I write is completely based on the philosophy of writing honest songs with no cover up.” In February of 2007 Life’s Great Tragedy was formed with the original intentions of being solely an acoustic side project. Shortly after writing “Back In Your Arms” Patrick brought along long time friend Kevin VandenBroeke to play bass on the songs that Patrick had already written and composed. Soon after debuting the band at Homebrew Coffee Co. in San Dimas, California, former Never A Chance band mate and long time friend, Brandon Popineau, was immediately inducted to the band to contribute his drumming to the songs. In mid February of 2007 Patrick and Kevin entered Co-Producer/Engineer Ben Eggehorn’s recording studio in Monrovia, California to track the one song that started it all, “Back In Your Arms”.
June 2nd, 2007 the band would once again enter Ben Eggehorn’s studio, this time to track four full band songs. These four songs along with the already recorded “Back In Your Arms” would be the defining songs for this small time band out of Glendora, California. The preceding weeks before the bands first show at The Roxy in Hollywood saw the induction of Life's Great Tragedy's second guitarist and fourth member Ryan Whalen. Whatevers next for these guys I'm sure they're up for the challenge.
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Member Since: 10/02/2007
Band Members: Patrick
Kevin
Ryan

Influences: Blink 182
New Found Glory
Thrice
Brand New
Third Eye Blind
Dashboard Confessional

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Record Label: 1658 Entertainment
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Help us get onto Mayercraft Carrier 2

We have entered into the Mayercraft 2 contest to get a chance to open for John Mayer. This is a great opportunity for our band to progress plus John Mayer is bad ass. Please help us by voting and tell...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:41:00 GMT

The Music for Hope Tour

The Music for Hope Tour is a benfit tour for the American Cancer Society that is running from June 23rd to July 17th. Kevin and I are currently running the tour through my entertainment group, 1658 En...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 15:29:00 GMT

The Very Begining

Life's Great Tragedy. Need i say more? Probably but I won't. The first "single" or rather 3 minute orgasm to the ear shall be posted this tuesday, so spread the word and the love.Pat
Posted by on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:42:00 GMT