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About Me

A mountaineer, a nanny, a special effects film producer and a dot com slave walk into a bar…or better yet, a dark room in a battered warehouse in the southern outskirts of San Francisco and plug in. The experiment plays well – escapism some may say, or perhaps a true calling...
In 2006, San Francisco’s Good People began hammering away in seclusion, generating its brand of sincere dream pop calling to mind timeless mood heroes Joy Division, Guided by Voices and the Sundays. The quartet made an immediate impact on the Bay Area, playing to packed houses its first handful of shows in the following months.
In 2007, the band retreated to rural Minnesota to record the fruits of their labor. The result was the self-released album "Seeds", five songs that evoke darker, troubled moods underneath catchy and melodic shimmering pop.
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Sinubukan ni Tim mag-tagalog para sa isang section ng Overstarting. Hindi namin ginamit, pero enjoy naman kaming lahat:
Sometimes when you're in the studio, inspiration hits you...
December '06, in a studio somewhere in Minnesota...

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Member Since: 11/27/2005
Band Website: you're looking at it
Band Members: Chris, Jessica, Kevin and Tim
Influences: if Guided By Voices, Built To Spill, Joy Division, Weezer, early New Order before they got all dancey, Van Halen, Sonic Youth, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, and Broken Social Scene all got into a drunken, debaucherous orgy, they'd probably give birth to somebody we'd be best friends with at summer camp. we'd hate each other at first. but we'd realize our similarities and eventually become awesome BFF's.

Sounds Like: something you've heard before, but with a slightly mintier aftertaste.
Record Label: yes, please.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

cd release at Rockit Room

Man, that was a blast...For the first time, we decided to play without the click track. As a result, we were looser than all shows we had previously. But what we lost in tightness we more than made ...
Posted by good people on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:25:00 PST

PACIFIC NOISE interview

John Swanson, in his never-ending quest for the latest and greatest, has interviewed us for Pacific Noise. Check it out!
Posted by good people on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:55:00 PST

11/13/07 - Garageband.com Song Of The Day

Garageband.com has picked Overstarting as their Indie Rock Song Of The Day.Booyaaaah!...
Posted by good people on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:29:00 PST

Jess and Tim kicking ass

I don't know if you're familiar with Garageband.com. But if you're into researching unknown bands that might or might not be the next big thing, I'd say this should be one of the sites you should che...
Posted by good people on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:31:00 PST

Rockit

Man, that was a great night.  We had a blast.  And high fives to Marco, Tib and all of Rockit Room.  What a great place to play.  Great sound, great equipment, AND nice, profession...
Posted by good people on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:25:00 PST

Keepin it real...

It doesn't happen often. But people have questioned Tim's "Filipino-ness" before. I think the video footage we recently put up lays all those questions to rest.The boy is fo' real, yo......
Posted by good people on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:44:00 PST

A thousand thanks...

We played the Elbo Room last night.  It was hot and we didn't go on until 10:30 (on a Wednesday night).  Yet the people who were there were absolutely rockin'.  It was such a great nigh...
Posted by good people on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:29:00 PST

Pump it up, Chris!

Because he's usually in the back buried behind a five piece drum set and a crapload of cymbals, not too many people get to see Chris. What people don't know is the boy's got mad skills. If you don't...
Posted by good people on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:42:00 PST

ah, good ol Elbo...

We just got a show at Elbo Room for Wednesday, September 26th. (Cue unanimous sigh of relief here.) The last time we played was early May at Red Devil Lounge. That's about 4 months of staring at ea...
Posted by good people on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:40:00 PST

Slow As Molasses

I think that would be an appropriate name for this EP that we've been trying to put together for 9 months now. I mean, is it really that hard to put out 5 songs on a cd? It's not really hard. It ju...
Posted by good people on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:39:00 PST