THE LAST SHOW
BYNOMEANS played their last show in a municipal building nearly an hour from any place they called home to smiling, crying, and satisfied faces. Pictures were taken, video was recorded, but the feelings and thoughts that were expressed not through music or lyrics, but through friendships that will remain uncaptured by technology. They remain inside all of us, only to be let out at the right time. That night was one of those times.
We will all always miss this band and the amazing time we had playing locally and on tour, thank you so much for any support you ever gave us through our time as a band it made it all worth while. WERE OUT -BYNOMEANS- RYAN ALEX TOPH SCOTT BEN
We're BYNOMEANS. We started in 2004, January 29 to be exact. We have some demos no one has ever heard from way back. We did an EP in 2005, kids still rock it. We played a party at an abandoned house. We went on tour twice once with She The Murderess, another time solo. Pat Cotter used to play with us. Ben cracks cymbols all the time. Topher has broken more strings than anyone. Keith Kling tags along most of the time. All our first shows were at the Trappe Y. We put our amps on crates. Topher and Alex ran naked through a state park in North Carolina. We love Journey. We are usually naked at practice. Topher digs country-pop. Alex is homeless. Scott is really an old man. Nearly everyone has an alter-ego on tour. Ryan does the best impressions. Alex jerked it in a Kentucky rest stop. Ben pissed all over a Kentucky parking lot. We broke down in North Carolina. We got arrested in Georgia. Nu-Metal bars love us. We love Seinfeld. We dig West Virginia. We play dungeons and dragons in the van. Keith hit on ever girl he saw on tour, he also got hit on by a creepy old sound guy. Our band name means nothing. Ryan is edge, Ben is veg. Topher got a massage from an elderly woman in Virginia. An old man in North Carolina tried to give us beer and fudge. Ben can't drive his own van straight for his life. We shut down two venues... accidentally. We love to headbang. Alex, Scott, and Topher created their own Triforce, where Alex is wisdom, Scott is rage, and Topher is beauty. Ben flipped out on church officials in reading. Ryan knows all pop lyrics...ever. A cop told ryan he was gonna "put a bullet in his head". We saved a drunk girl's life in Georgia. We sold merch in traffic on I-95. Ask us about how things used to be. We probably hate your band. We're too cool for South of the Boarder. We lived outside of NAPA auto parts for a while. Our van GPS has a name. We live for southern hospitality. Alex can fall sleep anywhere. Ben fainted when a cop told him he was going to jail. Some of us have participated in beatoff contests. We exclusively piss in bottles. We run Boswell, PA. Big Al's Breakfast Banaza is life. We Played Double Dash for two days straight. Alex picked up a tire full of poop. We crashed a New Years party in Georgia. Toph has the best one liners. We are partial to Flying J's. Sheetz is our Wawa away from home. Topher knows the dates of practically every show we have played. Weve gotten paid in Macdonald's Gift certificates. Someone made us a good luck cake with our name on it. If we have played there, youll find a bnm sticker real close by. We never want to go back to Murfreesboro, NC.
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