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Run For It Marty

About Me


...is a three-piece original rock band from the Pacific Northwest. The band consists of Ira Merrill (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Steve Gale (Drums), Terry Mattson (Bass/Backup Vocals sometimes), and Dane (also Bass/Backup Vocals sometimes).

Ira has played in Common Heroes, Pris, Super Deluxe, and Megasapien, and records solo material . Steve has played in Common Heroes, Pris, and Sirens Sister among others. Terry has played in Edisyn, Common Heroes, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, and currently also plays in Conservative Dad .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/25/2007
Band Website: www.runforitmartyrocks.com
Band Members: Ira Merrill - Lead Vox/Guitar
Steve Gale - Drums
Terry Mattson - Bass/Vox
Dane Creek - Bass/Vox
Influences: 30 Seconds To Mars
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Burke Thomas Overdrive
Chad Hanson
Conservative Dad
Daisy Chainsaw
Dick Rossetti
Division of Laura Lee
Elliott Smith
Elvis Costello
Far
Fear Of Little Men
Flake
Hey Mercedes
Jack Endino
Juliana Hatfield
King's X
Lemonheads
Magnapop
Maria McKee
Milemarker
Nirvana
Nobstreater
Ondine (the late great)
Operation Ivy
Patrick Porter
Pissed Jeans
Queen Adreena
Rancid
Rollins Band
Silverchair
Social Distortion
Some Girls (Juliana H project)
Sonic Youth
Soul Asylum ('86-'91 era)
Squeeze
Stavesacre
Sunny Day Real Estate
Super Deluxe
Susan M. Carr
That Dog
The Clash
The Cult
The Cure
The Dead Milkmen
The Graze / Louis O'Callaghan
The Police
Tim Armstrong
Tones On Tail
Transplants
Ween
Weezer
XTC
Yes
Young Fresh Fellows
Sounds Like: A brew of Nirvana-esque loud guitars, moving basslines and darker chord changes mixed with pop melodies ala Juliana Hatfield and Elvis Costello.
Record Label: OrangePants Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Thanks for coming out to Slim's!

Doooooooooooods. We had a GREAT time playing at Slim's last night - what a killer little venue. Thats all. Thanks to all who came out!xoira
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:11:00 GMT

Today's Economy Rules!!!

Kidz,It's amazing the powerful difference that three letters can make in a phrase. Case in point: "Get laid" vs. "Get laid off". I, like zillions of other folks, just got the ax from my day job. I was...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:25:00 GMT

New jam space - and gig on 9/25!

Turned on the radio yesterday, and its all about economics and doom and gardening. What to do? Continue trying to set up house and carve out space to be creative.We were sharing a jam space with The R...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:59:00 GMT

Thanks to all who came to the Jan. 17 show!

Hey...wow, we had a great time last Saturday night. Big fun. Thanks to everyone who made the effort to come down. There are so many things people can choose to do with their time on a Saturday night, ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:57:00 GMT

Debut Show this Saturday Jan 17 @ High Dive

Hey! We'd love to see you at our debut show this Saturday, Jan. 17 at the High Dive in Fremont, Seattle. Also playing are Peter Parker and Guns & Rossetti, who both RULE.We are on first at around 9:30...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:20:00 GMT

RFIM on the radio - TONIGHT

Hey,One or two of our tunes will be featured TONIGHT on the RBS Indie Showcase on KSJD Dry Land Community Radio (http://www.ksjd.org) at 10pm Central (so like...8pm local/Seattle time) - an independen...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:29:00 GMT

CDs Arriving Next Week...Finally!

I admit me, Steve, and Terry haven't exactly been fast as lightning with moving our new band forward, for a variety of legitimate reasons - BUT - for the people who have interest - we will finally hav...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:03:00 GMT

Album DONE! Songs posted. Will have CDs soon...

Hi, You know, Marie Antoinette really wasn't as good as I'd hoped. Oh well. The new Run For It Marty album, Spasmodic Intermittent Hesitation, is finally complete, and I just posted six tunes al...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 16:28:00 GMT

Bludgeoning sludge.

We are done mixing (posted photos of the sessions), and will master our album on April 24th with Martin Feveyear.  Hope to have CDs available and start playing some shows to support the album by ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:28:00 GMT

Album (essentially) finished! - posted photos

Long weekend, but vocals are finished, and percussion, blah blah.  Left to do: one bass part, a little bit of re-amping, cleaning up tracks, dumping to mac hard drive.  Jack E. is mixing on ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:17:00 GMT