Marx's Bio: The short-ass version: Hailing from all over Connecticut and Massachusetts, Marx Revolution is seven fine gentlemen playing "whatever we want," and have been since 2004.
Marx's Bio: The long-ass version: Marx Revolution formed in early 2004 when Gary met Guido in Principles of Economics II thefirst semester of their freshman year at the University of New Haven. One day Gary askedGuido if he wanted to start a punk band and Guido responded "Yea, sure." Guido knew somepeople at home that he had previously worked with and asked them if they wanted to play.Josh was very excited to join and couldn't wait to start. Brett, however, only responded"Whatever." He did not want to be in the band, he was just helping out Guido and Josh untilthey found a replacement. Oddly enough Brett is now a core part of Marx Revolution and Joshhad to go to Afghanistan and is sadly no longer a part of the band.
The band started off as just a four piece punk band. The first rough mixes and ideas forsongs came from leftover lyrics and parts from both Staplesore and Go By Bus, Gary andGuido's former bands respectively. There was a song about a guy named james who bought somany drugs that he helped the economy, and a mandatory song for the time bashing presidentBush. These two, with an early attempt at ska-metal called metalliska, a super punk rockanti-establishment song called tape song(because it was recorded on a tape...yeah. noseriously), and covers of pennywise, NOFX, and a cover of an old Staplesore tune called'Kingdom Come' rounded off Marx's early sets.
Once the band had these songs down and was ready to book shows, they needed a name. Manynames, some good, some terrible(who is shteven?), were thrown around. One day,Gary got ainstant message saying that the band name would be Marx Revolution. Under a decent amount ofprotest because of the connotation of the name, it eventually stuck and followed them totheir first show in a kid named Jay's basement in Agawam, MA, Gary's home town.
In order to enter into the battle of the bands at the University of New Haven, a demo wasneccesary. Having none, we decided to record a five-song demo named 'box'. This had shottyrecordings of'james', 'G.W.B.', 'Tape Song', 'Metalliska', and a new version of 'kingdomcome', which became a mainstay in marx's sets for many years. At the end of 2004, before thelast show of the year, Gary's high school friend Justin was added as the trombone player.The band felt that they were ridiculous so in early 2005 they decided to kick it up a notchand added Gary and Guido's friend from college, Forgy. Forgy played flute and had a wirelessmini-guitar. It was quite the act to see.
In Spring 2006, the band was holding on by a thread. The band was without a drummer becausehe had just left for Afghanistan. Their friend Anthony tried to help the band by playingdrums but it just wasn't his style. Then an few awesome things happened that spring. Theband added 2 new members. Fillmore was an old friend of Brett and Guido from high school whocould shred at guitar. Clamps was a friend from a band that Marx had played with many times.Things quickly came together and better than ever.
In fall 2006, the band slowly started to record their first full length album. And in January of 2007, Marx Revolution went on their first east coast tour withtheir friends the Attractive Gentlemen. And in the following spring, the band picked up saxplayer, Hibbs.
Summer 2007 brought a slew of ridiculous shows, which came to a peak in November with the long-awaited release of Spaceship Knifefight. And at the end of December, the band ventured once again down the east coast in support of the new album. Upon their return to beloved Connecticut, Marx bid a fond adieu to the ever-popular song, "Kingdom Come."
Immediately after tour, Marx Revolution locked themselves away in the studio for about four months, writing and recording a whole new set of songs, leading up to a mini-tour of New England with their friends Detonate, and the release of the Hookers & Blow EP in June 2008.
This summer packs a punch for Marx, with the first annual Mass Ska Raid in Atlanta, GA, followed by Ska Weekend in Knoxville, TN. And in August, the Green Light Festival in Ansonia, CT.
Marx Revolution has gone through a few member changes and has finally started to createtheir own sound. But no matter what changes, we will, and still are... doing whatever wewant.
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