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Minus Won

About Me

Minus Won have been around in some form or another for nigh on n years. Writing mad riffs, performing some magic on them to make them madder, sculpting them into mad songs and finally throwing some straight out, in-your-face, mad riffage into the mix has been their aim since inception.
Having played together for years and succeeded in baffling even themselves, mindless self-indulgence still awaits their arrival. Their music ranges from the quiet and technical to the unsubtle and impassioned. The only line up:
DAVE
MARTY
JOHNNY
still aims for something forceful, technical and melodic; utilising rhythm, harmony and a thoughtful fervour in concert to reach resolution.
16th of June, 2009

Greetings all,
Epic update fail. I hope you're well. After J-force the drummer's diversion to a foreign country for the purposes of (mis)education, Minus Won are once again a band. We got together, shook off the cobwebs and played like our old selves again after a surprisingly short period of time. It was FUN. I don't want to be too pretentious about the possibilities that are now open to us; what am I saying, of course I do, I just used a semi-colon(!!!!), but a multitude of things have happened to us as people and musicians that should lend themselves to us making more well thought out music, the nature of which will probably increase in diversity as an exponential from here out... unless it plateaus at some optimum diversity level... in which case it will have increased as a log. But not like, a log.
Watch this and other spaces.
'til next time.
Dave
MISCELLANEOUS Stuff
Definition of "fustian" can be found here.
...going to happen when you book us ..
More photos from our gigs....
The Clinic
- 6th May 2006
In the studio - 25thMay 2006 (includes video!!!)
Johnnyfest 2006 - 17th June 2006
Capitol - 4th October 2006 ..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/10/2005
Band Website: CONTACT : [email protected]"CONTACT : [email protected]
Band Members:Dave - Guitar/Vocals

Johnny - Drums/Vocals

Marty - Bass.
Influences: Marty's Influences: Big Country, Porcupine Tree, Rage Against The Machine, Spock's Beard, Dream Theater, REM, The Wailers, King Tubby, Jaco Pastorius, random hip-hop stuff, most new stuff i hear, what Dave comes up with influences me a lot too. And myself, just to be pret :-).

Dave's Influences (in no particular order): Anne Chaurand, Metallica, Fear Factory, Dillinger Escape Plan, Porcupine Tree, Frank Zappa, Pantera, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Alice In Chains, Anathema, Oceansize, The Drive-by Truckers, The Pineapple Thief, Meshuggah, Burst

Johnny's influences: Dave Grohl, Abe Cunningham, David Silvera, Danny Carey, Josh Freese, Ginger Fish, Terry Bozzio, Jimmy Chamberlin, Igor Cavalera, Nikko McBrain,..

Sounds Like:±sqrt(crab) = (mathemusicians getting caught in the riff-tide) TAMX
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Heavy bestin' recordings

Well, Johnnyfest '06 is all over :-(. Was pretty much an awesome event though, much enjoyed by us. Hope Johnny enjoyed it too, koz I haven't spoken to him since... hmmm. But yeh, to the point. We now ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:24:00 GMT

Last night's show and altered page

What have we turned into??? Ok ok, we're Myspacetastic, but that doesn't mean we're gonna be getting any less pret, so you can calm down. Yeh, last night was awesome folks, thanks for coming on down. ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 May 2006 07:46:00 GMT

The Setlist and the Sixth (of may)

...should be awesome obviously, but we've actually named some of these tunes now; a revelation for those of you who may remember the days of "1st song, 2nd song"! So, aside from the two already l...
Posted by on Tue, 02 May 2006 06:26:00 GMT

Evil number 9

Minus won spent some very productive time in the studio last night. If anyone caught the start of our show at the 13th note a few months back you might have noticed a cool, shorter than usua...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:31:00 GMT

BOOO BASE

So, to anyone who looks at this, We tried to get some nice recordings done in the studio the other day using J-Force's lap top and an actual, paid for, 100egitimate copy of cubase. Suffice to sa...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:29:00 GMT

Pret TTM

Yeh, note the new photos we put up. We had a bit of a pretentious evening last week and this was what heppened. Don't ask how we ended up dressing up... Was definately pret tho, i mean, we even have b...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:38:00 GMT

Singing is a novelty

So, Johnny and I spent a good evenings worth of time drinking beer, drinking wine and eating an awesome pizza..... oh, and also commiting Minus Won's first ever vocal performance to tape (well, hard d...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:00:00 GMT

Songs are up!!!

Yo all, We've done a little bit of recording in the practice studio for you to give you a rough idea what we're aiming for. These will be replaced by better recordings (hopefully with some vox) in du...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:42:00 GMT