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Spyros Charmanis

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Where oh where do we start!...I guess I was born into music (how typical of me to say so) on the 25th of September of 1984 in Volos, Greece. Always loved it and always built my life around it! I attended the local music school for about 9 years give or take, where I picked up some music theory, and some other courses I fail to remember now!!Studied Oboe for 6 years (initially my first love was the Saxophone, but I was about 5 so my lung capacity was poor, to say the least), played with the Youth Orchestra of Volos for about 2 years and that was it! It was time for some college studies, plus I was already losing interest in classical music and the whole greek music school status, so all that kind of got put to the side. Meanwhile (you have to love that word!), I found myself in love with rock music in general. So, i picked up my first guitar at the age of 16 and learned all about it by myself (you know: listening and watching videos, or greek music tv shows, when you are lucky enough to get a glimpse of the player and not just the frontman-therefore, I am a patient person :)). I also liked the drums and my cousin who had been studying the instrument was kind enough to show me a few stuff...the damage was already done!And Various band efforts later (still in college, so free time is not something scarce for the time being! ;)), here I am...Wow, that took a while :)

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Member Since: 26/02/2008
Band Members: Spyros Charmanis - all guitars, vocals, bass, keys, oboe, drum programming and mixing. Nina Karamolegkou - Guest vocals. Dimitris Tsoukas - percussion
Influences: Just Music, I guess. Big fan of the Blues, Rory Gallagher, Mike Patton, Jeff Buckley and Pain of salvation, to name a few...
Sounds Like: Ahh...you tell me!
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Dear Facebook..

.................... Dear Facebook, __ Sigh! What a great night ! As I had told you, yesterday would be a pub night! I had started preparing 4-5 days ago; First of all, I updated my facebook...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:20:00 GMT

Last Saturday...

..was absolutely GREAT! Big hugs to all the people that made it to the venue, the kind people of A.S.T.O. Patras for the opportunity and last but not least, Still Drunk and Surf Pistons - the big fami...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:05:00 GMT

This Saturday...

...is gonna be really special! The band (temporarily named 'Just Another Story'), anxiously strives to form consciousness and assemble itself for this coming Saturday! OK, that was pompous. Things mig...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:51:00 GMT

Extra!Extra! Read all about it..

Hey everyone! Lots o' news :)The CD is in the process of fund raising for duplication purposes and we're looking at a summer release (fingers crossed :P). Ok, let's dive right to the good stuff now: I...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Carbonated Lemonade @ Patras!!

Well, I am about to become extremely fanboy-ish!I could barely contain my glee and euphoria in reading the bill of an upcoming festival here in Patras..on 8/5, Carbonated Lemonade are bound to rip thi...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 05:46:00 GMT

Enjoy!

..and so I just uploaded the mastered versions of 5 songs!Also some photos there...Enjoy,Spyros.
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 09:30:00 GMT

Masters are coming along neatly..

I'd like to welcome aboard mr. Cristian Varga of Mastervargas Mastering, NY.Let's all give a big round of applause and thank him for doing his best with my somewhat clutchy mixes, and making the album...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:15:00 GMT

A Perfect Day Elise

Wet wet wet,As production has come to a halt, awaiting the juicy masters and as my plans to head over to Athens today and see the massive SUGAH GALORE perform live failed almost inevitably, it was a c...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:10:00 GMT

5...4...3....2...1....

....lobby!I felt like filling you all in on what's going on! We're getting closer, finally!...as me a very good friend of mine defy time (oh so original) and keep trying to wrap our minds around a pos...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:39:00 GMT

Pre-mature, pre-cognitive, pre-determined, pre-visualized and Pre-mastered

oohh...la di da!Pre mastered versions for Sober Sun and Like a Virus.. are up (as you might have guessed from the title). Yes, we are reaching the final stages! All songs have been going through some ...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:31:00 GMT