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REVERIE was formed sometime between the years of 1996 - 2000. I'm going to go ahead and guess that is was 1997. I could be wrong. I am not good with dates, even when I have to narrow it down to only a year.We started the band specifically to play in the first Drewstock. We successfully accomplished this goal. In fact, we were the very first band to play at the very first Drewstock. Some may say that this is historical.The original band was Mike, Erik, and me(Kerry). We are all still in the band. Throughout the years, a few other band members came and went. Actually, it was only three. So, three band members came and went. We will get to this later. First, I will reveal the origins of REVERIE.I meet Mike at the Ritz Theater Summer Day Camp. This particular Ritz Theater is in Oaklyn, NJ. It is not the Movie Theater in Voorhees. That theater didn't even exist yet and the land was probably just a pick field. That would be a shitty place to have a Summer Day Camp that puts an emphasis on theater. Getting back to the story, I didn't talk to Mike for the first day or so. Not because I didn't like him or he smelled, but because he had a tendency to just blend in. Well, after the acting instructor forced me and Ben Green to talk to him, we forged a pretty good and obviously long-lasting friendship. A little known fact: I was the first person to give Mike a guitar lesson. I was playing guitar for a little bit and got him interested. At the time, Mike was really into drawing things and made comic books that were really funny. Once he met me, he developed an interest in the guitar and it snowballed from there. I think sometimes that its entirely possible that I ruined Mike's life by distracting him away from drawing and he could have made millions of dollars with his comic, "Steve the Clerk." If that is the case, I am sorry. Once Mike got better then me at guitar, he wanted to start a band so he could rub it in my face that he was better then me at guitar. This might not be the reason he wanted to start a band, but I like to think that it is. The first band turned out to be GHOST TRAIN. GHOST TRAIN was Myself, Mike, Chris Banks, sometimes Ben Green and really, really awful. Chris banks was a kid that mike knew who played drums whose brother was on Gordon Elliot once. That kid sucked. Ben Green went to the summer arts day camp with us, and the very first day I met he showed me his "suicide box." I realize now that at that point I should have stopped hanging out with him. (he also showed me and Mike a song that he said he wrote, but it actually turned out to be "Heaven's Already Here" by Collective Soul off of their Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid album.)Mike listened to nothing but Oasis at the time, so that is what the band sounded like. Oasis was pretty big back then, it was the "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?"era, and that’s a pretty fucking awesome CD, so don't judge...please.I've known Erik since kindergarten I guess, and the Christmas day I got my guitar he was over my room forming a band with me. This band was WAR ANTS(the logo I designed for this band was and still is awesome. Ask me sometime and I might draw it for you). Originally, the band was called HOMICIDE, but my mom didn't approve so we had to change it. The band was me, Erik, and Kevin Carey. Kevin played drums. He is now a Collingswood cop, so if you ever get pulled over by a Officer Carey, just mention War Ants and he might let you go. At some point we added a second guitar player named Steve Kuhn. He was a little older then us and a little bit better then me at guitar so we kicked him out. Soon after, the band broke up.Erik went on to play drums/bass in other bands, such as Mad House and a band with Brett Smitley and Adam Wiedman that I can't remember the name of. I didn't really play in any bands until I met Mike. Once Ghost Train broke up, Mike and I were looking for another project and needed a drummer. I know Erik had drums so I called him up. Erik knew Mike from a previous Monopoly session the three of us had, so things came together quickly.Quickly didn't matter, however, as we ended up playing only two shows our first year as a band, despite practicing every single day. After a few months of practice, practice, practice we decided to record something. We had a lot of time in between shows. We record What Comes Next? on Mike's four track and considering what we had to work with, I think it turned out well. The tape featured such Mike hits as: "Serotonin" It's Been Changing" and ever a Kerry penned tune: "Say Goodbye." We started playing a little more after the tape and eventually decided we needed a CD (our songwriting/playing at this point had evolved to CD level) to give out at shows.We record out self titled CD(I like to call it the swirly CD) at the Gradwell House with Steve Poponi back when he recorded bands at the actual Gradwell House. We did the whole 7 song CD in TWO DAYS... I think it shows. A few of the songs we record on our on because Steve left for a while. This album feature the classic Reverie tune "Ellcy", which was written by me. That song was written about two girls, and I will give $100 dollars to anybody who can correctly guess both girls. (Band members can't participate)Over the next few years, we played a bunch more shows and wrote a bunch more songs and I guess some other stuff happened but none of it is really that important. I kinda quit the band for a while for personal reasons, but after a few weeks I was back and we record another tape. This was called, The Dog Album because the cover was a sketch of Zeus, Mike's dog. That tape, in my opinion, is the greatest thing REVERIE has ever done and I wish it was on CD and the recording quality was better. It would be a hit.We played a show at Sheahan's pub(now defunct) and Jon Montague asked us to record a song for a comp he was putting out that was going to feature local bands. It was called Arbor loves NJ, (Arbor being Jon's record label) and we recorded a song called "May I Help You?" for it. Kris Altruis recorded/produced the song for us and I think I spelled his name wrong. Jon dug our song so much that he told us he was interested in putting out a REVERIE cd on his Arbor Records label. After going back and recording a bunch more songs with Kris and a few Sunday night band and label meetings/The Sopranos viewings with Jon and Brian Mietz we put out Summer Camp which stands as the last thing we officially recorded as Reverie. A few months after Summer Camp, Brian Mietz joined the band, and after a few more months we changed the band's name to FUTUREMAN. We still played some REVERIE songs as FUTUREMAN, but the four of us consider it a different band.Cheers and sorry about any spelling or grammar mistakes,Kerry Mahoney (bassist) Update: I forgot to mention that both Andy Lacroce and Ryan Rose played guitar in REVERIE at some point. Ryan Rose was only in the band for about a week. He played one show with us and was out of tune the whole time. Andy played with us for probably about a year, then had to leave the band to go to college.
Updates and corrections by Mike:
-Reverie formed in May or June of 1998
-Erik swears he does not remember this Monopoly session, though it did happen. He actually took some of your Monopoly money while you were in the bathroom.
-It was "Scott the Clerk" not "Steve..."
-The CD we recorded with Steve was called "Before I Hit the Ground"
-Kris' last name is "Alutius"
-The spelling/grammar gets a D+
