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Poet Sky

.....promising, no promises

About Me

Poet Sky is a Southern California based alt-rock/post-punk band primarily consisting of V.J.R. Forrest, Samuel “Strav” Arzaga & Brian Ring as well as an ever-changing evolution and addition of multiple players per project and/or album starting from mid-2007 and on.
Poet Sky’s current work-in-progress is the debut LP “Our Alackaday Ways” and it is currently close to completion with a possible October 2008 release. With the new addition of supporting members Andy Miranda on bass & Chris Pawing on drums, PS is now rehearsing in preparation for live shows to help support the release of the OAW LP this Fall.
They have also recently released the demo like cd called The Sporadic Erratic EP this Summer with good friend turned Poet Sky collaborator Kevin Kolpien (previously of They Walk In Line & The Stevenson Ranch Davidians). The CD contains rough mixes and live version from OAW and its tentative 2009 follow-up, Hyperbole.
All the material for the Hyperbole LP is already close to being 100% written and practically recorded as well; Hyperbole is expected to be released in the Spring of ’09 and will also be featuring several tracks with Kevin Kolpien.
Please feel free to check out and subscribe to the Poet Sky BLOGS for more info and immediate updates.
Now Available at DISK FAKTORY JAMS and at CD BABY .
- Released JULY 15th, 2008
Coming Soon!
- OCTOBER 2008
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/15/2007
Band Website: PoetSkyMusic.com
Band Members:

POET SKY is
and currently includes...

V.J.R. Forrest
Lead Vocals
(1992-1997/2007-Present)

Samuel “Strav” Arzaga
Guitars, Bass & Keyboards
& Backing Vocals
(1992-1997/2007-Present)

Brian Ring
Guitars, Bass
& Backing Vocals
- Recording/Engineering
(1993-1996/2007-Present)

and

Kevin Kolpien
Guitars, Bass, Drum Machine/Programming
- Recording/Engineering
(2007-Present)

with

Andy Miranda
Bass
(2008-Present)

Brian, Forrest & Strav (Victorville, Ca. 12/2007)

Former Members
& Contributors:

Martin Cortez
Guitars & Vocals
(1992-1997)

Eirik L. Fulton
Drums/Percussion
(1992/1993-1994)

Souxzie V
Keyboards
(1992-1993)

Julio Figueroa
Drums/Percussion
(1993)

Erik Agueros
Drums/Percussion
(1994-1996)

Influences: Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure, Radiohead, U2, The Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Interpol, Nirvana, Pixies, BRMC, Love & Rockets, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Johnny Marr, David Bowie, The music & life of John Lennon, New Order, The Police, Geraldine Fibbers, the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Psychedelic Furs, Smashing Pumpkins, Frank Sinatra, The Sisters of Mercy, Alice in Chains, Flight of the Concords, Morrissey, Morphine, Echo & the Bunnymen, All the poetry and works of Charles Bukawski, Tori Amos, James Dean, Nine Inch Nails, Electronic, Oasis, Hole's "Live Through This" album, My Suicide (our once LP inspiration & friends), No Use for a Name, Face to Face (our mid-90’s High Desert heroes), James, Peter Gabriel, Dead Can Dance, Peter Murphy, Beethoven, Capi "the Capricorn" Ramirez, They Walk In Line, All the works of Kevin Kolpien, The Doors, Pinhead, Niaz's "Lemonhead" song, Drugs – Love - Loss and then back to Love again, Our beautiful and precious kids, Our "better halves" who put up with us and all the rest of our Friends & Families who always inspire us in general; AND finally last but never least...The Beatles!

Sounds Like:
The Sporadic Erratic EP
( AVAILABLE NOW )

Our Alackaday Ways
(October 2008)

H Y P E R B O L E
(April 2009)

s o v e r e i g n t i e s
(...sometime early 2010)

Record Label: n/a
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Sporadic Erratic EP now available on CD Baby

Just visit http://cdbaby.com/cd/poetsky . Thankz, FOE...
Posted by Poet Sky on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:23:00 PST

The Sporadic Erratic EP is now available!

The Sporadic Erratic EP is our demo/appetizer-like cd, which contains rough mixes and live version from our upcoming debut LP Our Alackaday Ways and its tentative follow-up, Hyperbole. All tracks of w...
Posted by Poet Sky on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:09:00 PST

PoetSkyMusic.com & Other Fun Newz

Our website PoetSkyMusic.com is NOW up-n-runnin', so go catch it & check it out - let me know what you think!   Thankz,    Foe P.S. The Sporadic Erratic EP has been printed and in...
Posted by Poet Sky on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:26:00 PST

Sporadic Erratic (a PS update)

So sometime back in the late 2007 and/or earlier this year I had mentioned our self-released cd "Our Alackaday Ways" was going to be ready for release by Spring '08.   Well with Spring drawing t...
Posted by Poet Sky on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:15:00 PST

the PS Bio

Poet Sky is a Southern California based alt-rock/post-punk band consisting of Victor J. Ramirez - Forrest (or "Foe" for short), Samuel "Strav" Arzaga & Brian Ring as well as an ever-changing ...
Posted by Poet Sky on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:50:00 PST

Track List for Our Alackaday Ways (March 2008 Update!)

With everything thing falling into place pretty well and being more then half way done, I feel confident enough to go ahead and share the OAW track list&   POET SKY: Our Alackaday Ways &nbs...
Posted by Poet Sky on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:57:00 PST

A New (Old/Redone) Song Now Up For Your Review&

Please review one of our first original old/redone songs that we are dangerously close to having done, "Inside of Me". It's not yet a mastered recording of it but its pretty darn close. This in assu...
Posted by Poet Sky on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:37:00 PST

Inside of Me (lyrics)...

Monsters in the hills In valleys of sleep In my dreams of summers bleak That crawls to winter's weep To this pain inside of me Theres monsters in my light Turning light to night Holding threatening f...
Posted by Poet Sky on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:23:00 PST

A sneak peek to Our Alackaday Ways

THE HAPPY ALIVE   Just to keep you updated, we have just posted a rough early/mix of our second song for the LP call "The Happy Alive". The song features backing vocals by our one and only Brian...
Posted by Poet Sky on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:47:00 PST

the happy alive (lyrics)...

Your clowned enemies favored frill To hark your moments to drinks & pills Mark your carousel dollar bills They're like pretty girls all alone somewhere   Yeah, we're all alone somewhere &nbs...
Posted by Poet Sky on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:45:00 PST