About Me
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The point of this Street Team is for all Classic Crime fans to come together and share ideas and thoughts about the band,tour,and or songs, amongst other TCC fans. -TCC Official Street Team
What is the Classic Crime? History is filled with heroes that made the ultimate sacrifice and martyrs who died for their cause. Whether their actions were viewed as "criminal" in their day was irrelevant. From those fighting against injustice to those who stood up for the folks who don't fit in, dying for one's beliefs or one's art is the Classic Crime.
"Music has a profound effect on the listener. It even has the power to lift spirits and change lives," reasons Classic Crime singer Matt MacDonald. "If we can see our music change a life for the better, then we've been paid in the kind of way we hope to be."
Justin DuQue wasn't one of the "cool" kids in school; never an outcast, but never quite popular. "I knew that high school was a big popularity contest and I never bought into it," he says. What high school did offer Duque was a chance to meet drummer Paul Erickson.
"I grew up listening to mostly my dad's music," says DuQue, whose father force-fed him a steady diet of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and Jimi Hendrix. On his own, the soon-to-be guitarist discovered Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden and Nirvana, and they changed his life.
DuQue and Erickson became fast friends and before too long they found themselves playing in a band called Orizon with bass player Alan Clark and singer Matt MacDonald, whose own parents confessed their love for Sabbath and Zeppelin in his teenage years. By the time guitarist Robbie Negrin came onboard, the time felt right to change the name.
"If we are mentioned in the same breath as the greaet bands of the Pacific Northwest then I think that we'll have done something right," Duque says with modesty. "I just hope to develop long-lasting, loving friendships with new people and see people's lives changed for the positive. And all deeper in love with life."
"We have been given a talent to write and play music and it is my hope to give that to other people," adds MacDonald. "[We want] to inspire hope in other people who have dreams, doubts, and struggles. As Dustin from Thrice says, 'Every scar is a bridge to someone's broken heart.' And it is my hope that our scars can help heal hearts."-The Classic Crime's website
