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Careful Dane

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About Me

Here are videos from our last two shows!
Millbrae Rec 6/20/2008 - YAC show
Millbrae Rec 5/3/2008 - Kenya Benefit
Careful Dane is currently on a hiatus while its members attend college. Zach is going to UC Santa Cruz to study on violin, Anthony is going to San Jose State University to play jazz drumset and perform in the marching band, and Nate is going to Berklee College Of Music (in Boston) to study on bass. We plan to record and gig whenever we're in the same place at the same time. Thanks for giving us a great 4 years! More good stuff is coming your way.
Careful Dane was formed in December of 2004 from a hasty little jam session in Anthony's front room. We took 6 months to get our act together and made an EP of 5 demo songs. It was called Safety, and it cost $2 a pop. After a year of songwriting and our first shows, we had our buddy Matt Spady record 10 original tracks for our LP, "Naked To The Sky". From start to finish, we made our own album. We designed, printed, copied, and inserted the front, back, sides, and booklets ourselves, wrote and printed the CDs, and sold it ourselves for $7 each starting at a Halloween themed release show in October of 2006. Since the release of Naked To The Sky, we've played dozens of shows, written new songs, and covered a wide range of music, from Jimi Hendrix to Ben Folds and back again. We have a ton of youtube videos, including two full recent shows that you can view above. The 3 of us are currently honing our musical skills at colleges on both coasts, and we plan to write, record, and perform music whenever we find ourselves back on the peninsula.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/30/2005
Band Website: purevolume.com/carefuldane
Band Members: Zach Ragent - Guitar/Vocals/String Breaking
Nate Marsh - Bass/Backup Vocals/Ridiculous Faces
Anthony Franceschi - Drums/Sweating A Lot
Influences: All three of us have experience in orchestral, jazz, and rock settings on multiple instruments. This tends to make us a little bit schizophrenic and jump between styles: you will hear jazz ballads, gnarly distorted rock songs, and 7/4 modified paradiddles at our shows, along with everything in between.
We've covered Incubus, Foo Fighters, Jimi Hendrix, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds, Kelly Clarkson, Jimmy Eat World, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Hives, The Beatles, The Ramones, Sublime, John Mayer, and more.
Sounds Like: An original mix of styles that we try to keep as musical and interesting as possible. Sometimes really loud and heavy, sometimes really soft and sweet. Often funky and syncopated. Occasionally jazzy. Always sweaty. Our only rule is "no screaming" and we even break that rule at live shows sometimes.
Record Label: Hot Spicy Chicken Sauce Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Download our music for free. Were serious.

CLICK HERE!EVERYONE LIKES FREE MUSIC.So download an entire show of ours, track by track, at the link. It's free, it sounds good, and you'll probably like it.Even we can tolerate listening to ourselves...
Posted by Careful Dane on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:40:00 PST

Naked To The Sky lyrics

Just in case you guys wanted these. I know I like to plug good lyrics into iTunes.Love you all,Nate---------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------NO MOREno more of ...
Posted by Careful Dane on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:55:00 PST

Watching

Is one of our new songs. We're working on it along with a handful of other songs; the goal is to have enough to fill an EP or maybe even a new full length album.We don't have any shows lined up right ...
Posted by Careful Dane on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:12:00 PST

State of the Dane

-we are playing more shows-we are rehearsing more-we are writing more songs-you guys are awesome fans. keep up the good work.-don't forget to bring friends to our shows!
Posted by Careful Dane on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:02:00 PST

October 27th is CD-DAY.

1. We're putting the finishing touches on the first batch of CDs...here's a picture of the back of one.2. You and all your friends need to come see us at 6:00 on Friday at B-Street Music for the big H...
Posted by Careful Dane on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:22:00 PST

Simple Pleasures...

I like pearsyes we are still around, live, and well.  the Compact Disc is going to be out soon....I think. YES!!! Oh yes!!!I still love pears.
Posted by Careful Dane on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:11:00 PST

Recording Progress

So. Today we finished up all the bass tracks (good job, Nate) and worked out some details about the CD. Continued thanks are due to Matt Spady for being so nice and helpful.The CD's tentative price is...
Posted by Careful Dane on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:23:00 PST

News on the CD

We've officially begun recording with Matt Spady. He's friendly, knowledgeable, and a great engineer. The new CD will be 10 tracks long and cost somewhere around $7 to $9, and it will sound like hot l...
Posted by Careful Dane on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:57:00 PST

New Photos - Thanks to Eric Sanchez

Go check 'em out and make your own caption for the closet picture.
Posted by Careful Dane on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:13:00 PST

Sorry about the photos

Sorry if some of your comments got deleted; the photos got all weird on Nate but he fixed them up. We promise to leave them alone.-Careful Dane
Posted by Careful Dane on Mon, 08 May 2006 09:22:00 PST