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The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour)

Hold on to your butts...

About Me

Check out our new video at www.putfile.com/ralphthesock! George made it for a school project... it's hip! And also look close to the end for some pretty interesting people enjoying our performance who probably wouldn't be caught dead supporting us anymore. Enjoy, homies!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/24/2005
Band Website: thesyzlaks.tk
Band Members: Greg Beach - (Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, Piano) Pat McCusker - (Guitar, Vocals) Matt Garber - (Bass, Vocals, Saxophone, Keyboard) George Merdkhanian - (Drums, Percussion, All Around Cool Guy)
Influences: The Beatles, Blink 182, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Aquabats, Pink Floyd, Dave Matthews Band, the Pixies, the Descendants, Simon and Garfunkel, Weezer, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Radiohead, NOFX, John Lennon, Modest Mouse, Flogging Molly, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Who, Streetlight Manifesto/Catch 22, Coldplay, Led Zeppelin, John Williams, Musicals, Video Game Music
Sounds Like: The Syzlaks
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

8/11/07- Artspace (theRansom’s last show)

This was an awesome show. We played quite well ourselves and every other band we saw was great. It's nice to have at least one show before we go away to school, especially after all that recording. Th...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:42:00 PST

5/18/07- SyzFest 07

This was a pretty fun show although unfortunately not quite as awesome as I personally was hoping for. People did seem to enjoy us and themselves during the show... however, there was a weird funk of ...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Sat, 19 May 2007 02:47:00 PST

5/10/07- IDS Coffeehouse

Cool dude. This was fun. Nice acoustic show. Funny thing was we didn't practice at all and had very little planned for what to do... but it still worked out quite well. I like playing acoustic... it's...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:15:00 PST

4/5/06- WHS Battle of the Bands, Watertown MA

This was a good time. Although we didn't win, I'm pretty sure we kicked some ass and rocked hard. Congratulations to Westfall for their first win and congrats to all the other bands because unlike yea...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:03:00 PST

1/19/07- French American Victory Club, Waltham MA

I liked this show, it was quite fun and pretty laid back. It was a private little birthday party so there weren't that many kids. The kids that were there were quite enthusiastic/nice and made it quit...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:50:00 PST

1/12/07- The Hibernian Hall

This show was sweet, dude. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't so pumped to play this show as I was sorta in the mood to just relax Friday... but man, it was awesome! The crowd was great and sizable and ...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:59:00 PST

10/21/06- Halloween Show at B&G Club

So... basically this show was totally bitchin'. It was quite awesome in terms of... everything. The kids that showed up, the costumes, the crowd movement, the performances... just awesome. It was so m...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:38:00 PST

Faire on the Square- 9/30/06

So yeah... the show went very well. I thought we were on top of our game in terms of sound quality and tightness in addition to liveliness on stage. The only thing I think we could improve upon is our...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:53:00 PST

9/15/06- the Skellig, Waltham MA

So yeah, that show was awesome. We've never played in Waltham but apparantly people already knew about us which was a wonderful surprise. The kids were really nice and supportive of us and our music w...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:38:00 PST

8/27 Artspace, Gloucester MA

Yeah dude... I used to make show blog type things on our website but then we neglected the site as well as the maintenance of the archives. BUT! I suddenly got an urge to start one up again so here it...
Posted by The Syzlaks (Help Us Book A Late May Tour) on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:48:00 PST