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You may not have heard them before, but when the first song starts, it's familiar - you can hear in an instant the influences, but never played this way - and you can relate. View plays thoughtful, inspired, and energetic original rock, folk, and punk.

Since 2003 View has been writing, playing, and sharing music with fans from southeast Michigan. Its members come from different places, backgrounds, and musical influences, but share their love of rock music. It's their differences and how they affect the music that makes View unique.

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Member Since: 30/12/2005
Band Website: www.viewtheband.com
Band Members:
BJ Walraven - Vox/Guitar

Erik Weber - Drums/Vox

Justin Mastic - Bass/Vox

Influences: REM, Jimmy Eat World, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, Counting Crows, Tom Petty, Toad the Wet Sprocket
Sounds Like: LIE (LIVE VERSION) - Little Dublin's Sports Bar, Taylor, MI - 2005
BLAME ME (LIVE VERSION) - Boulder's Bar, Plymouth, MI - 2005
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Thanks - the album's now available!!

http://viewtheband.com/home.cfm?feature=503643&pos...Thanks to all who came to the CD release party at Frenchie's on Saturday!  We had a great time, and from the looks and sounds of it, you did too! ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:12:00 GMT

Almost there...and what it's like to be a rock star...

We're almost done with the album.  Really.  We actually have complete final mixes of some songs, we've taken pictures for the artwork, coordinated with a graphic artist, and decided on the packaging.....
Posted by on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:20:00 GMT

Changes...

Wow.  It's been a while since we posted.  Let us get you up to speed...We've been busy.  Worked on a demo for a few months - and then things changed.  Mike needed a break from...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 22:04:00 GMT

You won't believe me when I tell you...

09.30.2006If you came out to the Foggy Bottom Coffee House show, you saw 1/2 of View in a whole new light.  That show was a great night for us...and, Craig had a microphone in front of him. ...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:07:00 GMT

Check out this event: View at Beaner's acoustic

We're excited for our 2nd Beaner's show - this one we'll be taping.  So if you want to be one of those people on the 'unplugged' recording of a band - come out and yell and scream between songs.A...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:43:00 GMT

View on 89X CIMX

05.16.2006Hi there.  Hopefully you've found your way back here fairly easily, eager to see something new.  We're busy.  We got played on the 89X Homeboy show on Sunday, 5/7. That was fa...
Posted by on Tue, 16 May 2006 20:51:00 GMT

WKQL - Interview on 2/5/2006

We just finished recording 2 songs acoustically on WKQL - 107.1 Ann Arbor.  "The Key" is a featured track on our new CD, which will be officially released on 2/11/2006 at Little Dublin's Sports B...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:24:00 GMT

View gets air play.....AGAIN!!!!

Adam Rey from Ann Arbor's 107 one (www.annarbors107one.com) played "She's Gone Now" this week on the Homegrown show!!!  Anyone interested in requesting View, should call the radio station on thei...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:00:00 GMT

Another birthday

Well, one of us had a birthday today.  You can guess who it is - we'll tell you if you're right! We wanna say a big THANKS to Adam Rey of Ann Arbor's 107.1 (www.annarbors107one.com) for playing u...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:09:00 GMT

View gets air play.....

We have some VERY exciting news!  View has been selected for a track to be played on Ann Arbor's 107 one (www.annarbors107one.com) - "The Key" will be played TONIGHT during Adam ...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:00:00 GMT