Hi-diddly-ho! We are the Grape Soda Jerks, and you are about to fall in love. We are an eight-piece ska band from Suburbia, IL. Making up those eight pieces are Cassie (vocals), Tommy (guitar), Matt (guitar), Zack (drums), Danny (trumpet), Matt (sax), Nico (sax), and Sean (bass). We are currently working on recording (what we have up here for you to take a listen to is about 20% of our set) and writing even more catchy tunes. We love playing shows, and so does our huge fan base (Timm and Erinn Schie). Our mission is to show all of those dumbass scenesters that ska isn't dead... help us spread the word, bitches! Please let us know if you're interested and want to do a show with us - we'd be much obliged. =)
HISTORY:
We've been through many metamorphoses, from our larval stages at Tommy's basement to our mature stages at Zack's basement. In the beginning, there was a band dubbed Royale With Cheese, and from this band's dissolution descended Cassie, Dan, and Tommy. Tommy wanted desperately to continue to spread ska love, so he began to jam with select others in his basement. He first found Nico, a recent ska-convert. Nico needed horn partners, and so Green and Davy were enlisted after much searching. A drummer was our last necessity, and the search continued. Eventually, Dan decided to go to bigger and better things and left. Thus, we needed a bassist, too. We found one in Danikka, a friend of Tom's who was also in another ska band. It was shortly after that we found Zack, who filled the seat behind the set beyond our hopes. With Zack came a new haven for rehearsal, and a shitload of technological goodies. One day, Matt showed up to practice, and we liked his stuff, and let him in on the condition that he wouldn't be a 'tard. he didn't keep his end of the bargain, but we let him stay anyway. We got out first show in the fall of '05, playing a battle (between two bands) at GHS. We won! We were legit. Then Nico quit (Nico quits a lot of things). To fill the void he left, Danny stepped in. Danny was special because he went from playing trumpet to trombone just for us! Awww. The shows continued, but after our third show, Danikka split off from the Jerks. We needed a bass... again! Dan came back to our rescue because he realized that we were the shit and leaving was stupid. More shows followed, with Nico occasionally filling in for a missing horn. Nico realized he wanted to come back and that quitting doesn't solve everything, and we finally had a four-piece horn section! Not long after Nico's triumphant return, Dan again forgot that we were the shit and left. For the third time, we needed a bass. With no one else on the market, we had no choice but to settle for Sean. More shows, but then the Asians created yet another great wall; their sport of Jujitsu and it's late practice time didn't allow Davy to come to our early rehearsals. It was mutually decided that Davy would go bye-bye, and THAT's how we got to where we are today.
LOVE, THE GRAPE SODA JERKS
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