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Member Since: 10/26/2005
Band Website: www.civitaband.com
Band Members: Melvin sings.
Paul plays guitar.
Robbie plays bass.
Tim drums!

Ransom - By Civita

Influences: Living Colour, Rush, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction, Metallica, The Fifth Dimension, Parliament, Pearl Jam, Queensryche, Joan Jett, Heart, Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, Anthrax, Primus, Save Ferris, King's X, Garbage, Faith No More, The Police, Alice in Chains, Captain Kangaroo...
Sounds Like: Pearl Jam if they had a female singer? Heart playing grunge? Led Zeppelin, Jane's Addiction, Sky Cries Mary, Tool....Us.
Record Label: None (Yet?)

My Blog

The EP is done!

And I've got a box of the finished product sitting right in front of me! Oh, it is glorious, thanks in no small part to Naomi McQuade & Sean Hall for contributing artwork and especially John West for ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:03:00 GMT

EP is almost done, release party is booked!

We've been busy little bees. Recording is nearly wrapped up and John is working on mixes as we speak. Really, it's me holding us back. I caught some icky bug that stole my voice for a while and has ke...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:22:00 GMT

EP recording has begun!

Just dropping a quick note to let everyone know that studio time is under way. We've called in our good friend John West to oversee all the engineering & technical hoodoo, which was a flash of genius ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:28:00 GMT

SOLD MF'in OUT!

Standing room only at the Rendezvous tonight and it was AWESOME! Thanks again to Blackbird Orchestra and Nathaniel Johnstone for jamming this show out with us. We'll be back live at the end of March/b...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:43:00 GMT

More People Say Nice Things About Us!

Check out what Matt had to say about us in the Weekly Volcano, Tacoma's local paper for all things awesome:   Just like PBR and Bob's Java Jive, Civita band members are the perfect mixby Matt Dri...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:17:00 GMT

Home from the East Coast Tour

First off, one thousand thanks to Booty/Woggster for putting us up and dragging our butts around to see the sights. I've ALMOST forgiven him for quitting and moving away ;) And another 1000 thanks to ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:11:00 GMT

Neumo’s recap!

Although I can't imagine what to say other than it was super-awesome! Neumo's has some amazing sound people and both Voyager One and Sky Cries Mary put on fanTAStic sets as usual :) We're glad we got ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:10:00 GMT

Time is on our side (yes it is!)

Ok, I'm going to do my best to update you lovely folks once a week on what's going down in our little universe. We'll see how long it lasts :) But if I get a good response, I imagine I'll keep it up. ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:52:00 GMT

People say nice things about us

We hit Maggie O'Toole's last night for Tim's debut show with us. Bad news first: Melvin's trying to get over the flu. Couple that with the fact that we got stuck in the last slot of the the night...ye...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:35:00 GMT

Tansitions & Small World- not just song titles!

WELL! After what can only be described as a "fanF*CKINGtastic" show for the TIOS benefit, it is time to let you all in on some news:Transitions: The TIOS show was Luis' last show with us. We are under...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:35:00 GMT