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For Decades

About Me

We're a new band but contain ex members of:
I AM DISASTER
SHOOT TO KILL
THE K.O.S.T.
a bunch of others, you probably know us...
Once upon a time Jay and I wanted to start a band that was a little of this and a little of that. So we got Kevin to play drums and wrote two songs that we were totally psyched on. At that time we started looking for a bassist and a singer, and Ben wanted to give singing a try. After a couple of fun practices making enough noise to get kicked out of our practice area, Kevin kicked himself out of the band. Moving into the position of management and spiritual advisor Kevin continues to be an asset to the For Decades machine. At this point Ben, being the all around awesome dude that he is, decided to do what he does best and moved to drums. So we kicked out the jams at Jay's house for a bit, all the while looking for a bass player and a singer. Ben and Jay suggested Nazi Joe (who isn't really a nazi, but plays one on t.v.) to be the bass player. Joe came to some practices and learned the songs real fast and was a righteous dude all together so he was in. We still needed a singer though, and after asking and/or trying out such stand up dudes as Nick Burns of Chuck Brunswick, Mike Poulin from Sluts fame, Brett Valego from Anartha and All I Can, and Matt Murdza from the infamous Boys Club, we came upon Mike McGee formerly of Perils Of Reasoning. Mike, who is also an all around good dude, was amped on the music and started writing words. Not too long after we started playing out, Mike joined the band The Network from New Hampshire, and since they're a full time band wasn't able to continue with us. Ben also left the band due to having no time because of work and such. Damien Tetrault stepped in on drums, formerly of I Am Disaster, D hits hard and is an awesome dude. So now I'm singing and we've added Bill Tolland also from IAD to play second guitar. All we want to do is hang out and play shows with our friends. So....hope to see you at a show, or at the mall, or anywhere really if you're cool. To get in contact with us use this site or email us directly at [email protected] R.D. For Decades

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Music:

Member Since: 4/9/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/fordecades1
Band Members: GUITAR- Jay Bedard
GUITAR- Bill Tolland
BASS- Nazi Joe Boucher
DRUMS- Damien Tetrault
VOCALS- R.D. Blakeslee
Influences: Texas Is The Reason, In My Eyes, Sluts, Saves The Day, The Movielife, American Football, Isis, Bane, Boys Club, Five Across The Eyes, Lifetime, The Casket Lottery, Bad Religion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Bel Biv Devoe, The Dropkick Murphys, Warzone, The Suicide File, Black Flag, Defeater, Last of the Mohicans, Drowningman and some other shit that you may not like, but we do. Also, how lame growing up is.
Sounds Like: This dude hitting drums really kinda fast, and some other guy's playing guitar, one of whom likes Sunny Day Real Estate way too much, and the other who is actually really good at guitar. Some street punk looking dude playing some sick low end jams, topped with a kid who isn't satisfied with most things in his life, yelling about it.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Playing our first show in a year and a half

So after looking at the dates on our other posts I realized it's been like a year and a half since we played a show. I know I've said a million times that we were going to come back and play shows an...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:13:00 GMT

Demo songs

So since we got a bunch of comments about not having songs up, we put some unfinished ones up. Not unfinished like we're not done writing them, but in the way that they're not totally mixed down yet....
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 12:09:00 GMT

So I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted.....

But add Boys Club, Five Across The Eyes, Sluts, Wasteland, Shoot To Kill, Chuck Brunswick, and any and all other Western Massachusetts bands if you haven't.
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:20:00 GMT