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About Me

BIO:
Chris Allen, Jason Cannan, Daniel Casey, Todd Means, and Randy Retama formed Semiotics in 2005 with the intent to play acoustic, folk-oriented rock songs. After only a few months the band transformed and began fusing that melodic, mellow sound with complex, interweaving guitar parts, neo-classical arpeggios, and driving bass. These sounds are brought together by Means' thoughtful lyrics and vocal melodies and the band's fascination with syncopated, asymmetrical rhythms. All of these elements lead the band in different directions for each song; some songs combine French jazz and punk while others contain elements of jazz, blues, pop, ragtime, latin rhythm, and post-rock ambience. By borrowing from these musical traditions the band has constructed a sound that is diverse and vibrant both in the studio and on the stage.
Bands we have shared the stage with: Days Away, Mayday Parade, The Working Title, Bedlight For Blue Eyes, E For Explosion, Driver Side Impact, Goodbye Tomorrow, Sick City.
DEGREES TO KEVIN BACON
Todd: Four Degrees -- Todd's Dad worked at a hospital that Gary Busey stayed at. Gary Busey was in Point Break with Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves was in Thumbsucker with Benjamin Bratt. Benjamin Bratt was in The River Wild with Kevin Bacon.
Jason: Four Degrees -- Jason was in the same class as Ashley Brillault. Ashley Brillault was in Lizzie McGuire with Hillary Duff. Hillary Duff was in Agent Cody Banks with Frankie Muniz. Frankie Muniz was in My Dog Skip with Kevin Bacon.
Daniel: Four Degrees -- Daniel's high school spanish teacher taught Cameron Diaz. Cameron Diaz was in Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise was in War of the Worlds with Dakota Fanning. Dakota Fanning was in Trapt with Kevin Bacon.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/4/2005
Band Members: Chris, Daniel , Jason , Randy, , Todd
Influences: dawn of the dead (Ving Rhames)
Sounds Like: The kind of music you listen to while making love to a dragon prior to striking it down with your blade of justice and the fury of a thousand beasts. You listen as you let the blood rain on your lips and cry "The taste is sweet, but your tears and cries are even sweeter!" You raise your blade and justice is done...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Recording-New Video

Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:30:00 GMT

A Whole Lot of News

It's been a while since the last update, and a lot has happened since: - Chris Allen, the drummer who recorded our new album Therio with us, has officially joined the band. We're all really exci...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:21:00 GMT

Just another day at my 9-5...

Quick update while I've got nothing going on. We are done tracking. Done. Mixes are starting to come together and they are sounding awesome like whoa. Ryan Baker has his ways of maki...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:19:00 GMT

Recording: Days 3-? aka Hurricane High Gravity Lovefest (XTREME!!!)

A'ight, blah...here it goes. Recording is still going, going, going. We've finished up all of the shredding and the vocal leads. As we wrap up tracking in these next few days, things ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:07:00 GMT

Recording Days 1 & 2-Video

Here's the shiz. Enjoy. -Todd EDIT: Just follow this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF-S4Gf5INw
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:27:00 GMT

Give it a little tappy. Tap tap taparoo

About time to write some new ish all up on this ish... We spent the last two days dropping it like it's hot and getting low in North Hollywood. Drums are finished and I believe piano and or...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:51:00 GMT

The sound of settling.

After various troubles, a garage sale, having failed at collecting cans, selling things we don't really like talking about, and peddling people for money, we're going to begin recording! We have made ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 May 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Im just looking for shelter

This down time is killer. It feels like it’s been forever since we’ve played, although I know that is not the case. We were all hoping to be done recording the album by now, bu...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:42:00 GMT

Learn to be still...

Over the past few weeks we’ve learned a whole lot about how to run a band both as a business and as a hobby. One of the main things I’ve personally learned as a person is to not make promi...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:28:00 GMT

I read the news today...oh boy. (bad news)

Well, since Jason already posted that blog, I suppose I should address our current situation. Unfortunately, after almost a year of playing with us, Sam has decided to leave the band. Noth...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:43:00 GMT