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CARTOON FACTORY

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About Me


Drawing influences from 70's Classic rock and Arena Rock bands like Kiss, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick and the Who and combining them with 80's pop metal hooks similar to Motley Crue, Warrant and Poison with a splash of bubblegum & the Hair Band of your choice, early David Bowie and even 80's pop elements like Duran Duran, Cartoon Factory sounds like everything you love and yet nothing you've heard before. With CD sales and radio airplay in 9 countries (as of this writing) the genre crossing, ageless music of the CF is catching on all over the world.
Various incarnations of the band have been tapped to open shows for and /or toured with luminaries like Peter Frampton, Molly Hatchett, Blue Oyster Cult, The Hooters, Steve Morse, Danger Danger, Loverboy, Electric Angels, The Storm, and others. The CF is fairly family friendly in an ear bleeding poser sort of way. Unlike the typical hard rockers, you won't hear any profanities spouting from the stage or any songs with blatant alcohol or drug references.
In addition to their Self Titled Debut CD in 2001 (Futurama Records), the band had a smokin' (tho atypical) cover of Dokken's "Tooth and Nail" included on "Will Play for Lynch", a George Lynch Tribute album (Sacred Serpent Records-UK, 2005), a song included on the "NOW HEAR THIS, Volume I Compilation CD (Futurama Records, 2005) and songs featured in the "Art Intensity Vol. 16-Motor City Tattoo Expo" DVD (Art Intensity Network, 2006).
The band is currently on the road in the Southeastern US and in the studio working on tracks for a new CD, slated for a 2009 release on Futurama Records. Music this infectious could start an epidemic. C'mon, get infected!
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Member Since: 17/12/2004
Band Website: www.thecartoonfactoryband.com
Band Members: CHUCK CHAPMAN - Lead Vocals, Guitars

BOBBY NIPPER - Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

Dion Sweatt - Bass Guitar, Vocals

JOSEPH "The Animal" TANAY - Drums

Influences: KISS, Cheap Trick, Beatles, Led Zep, 80's Pop-Metal, too many to mention
Sounds Like:

Cheap Trick meets Weezer, KISS meets Fountains of Wayne, Poison meets Gin Blossoms, Green Day meets Aerosmith, Bon Jovi meets Hanoi Rocks ( get the picture?!)
Record Label: Futurama Records (www.futuramarecords.com)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CD Update Part 9-Buddy Strong to Produce

Bobby added some acoustic guitar parts to the existing tracks to "thicken up" the tunes. Getting these worked up, got 4-6 more to go. Obviously ain't gonna happen by Christmas, but looks good for Spri...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:18:00 GMT

Cartoon Factory/Cheerwine Soft Drink Endorsement

The CF is proud to announce our recent endorsement of Cheerwine Soft Drink. Cheerwine will be providing us with our onstage refreshment as well as some fan giveaways and lots of other stuff to help us...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:05:00 GMT

3 Venues in 1 Day

Who the heck would attempt to play 3 different venues in 1 day???!!! We would, and will. Saturday, Oct. 4th sees us at Timmy Mac's in Columbia, SC @ 1pm to make a 1 set appearance for a Breast Ca...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:17:00 GMT

CD Diary Part 8 (really, this time.)

CD Session 3 was Tuesday night. 2 new base tracks completed + 2nd guitar parts added to 5 songs. Still HOPE to have out by late 2008, hopefully in time for Christmas, but it's getting tight. Base trac...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:02:00 GMT

CD Update Diary Pt. 8 (?)

Went in for Session 2 last week-trying to squeeze in between constant live gigging- Recut 2 tracks from 1st session. 1 just didn't have the right feel and we decided to add a bridge to another. Recut ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:58:00 GMT

CF Signs Management Deal

The Cartoon Factory is proud to announce that we have entered into a management agreement with Backstage Productions. Backstage is a Columbia, SC based management firm that represents several other SC...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:14:00 GMT

CD Update

The New CD is FINALLY back under way. We scrapped all the original tracks and decided to rerecord everything "live" that is, us all playing at the same time but with mics seperated into different room...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:09:00 GMT

Cover Me!

Howdy Toonies!We just cut a five song EP of some of our favorite covers, called "Cover Me"- This project will NOT BE SOLD, BUT you can down load some of the tunes FREE here on Myspace and all of em wi...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:39:00 GMT

Back to Work

After another delay replacing drummer and bassist, we are finally back to work on the new CD. New drummer Joseph Tanay and Bassist Skippy Rosoff have started working on their respective parts and plan...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:04:00 GMT

CD on Hold for now

Well, once again the CD is on hold due to yet another @#$!7* drummer change. We had started booking gigs and scheduled studio time and then yet another drummer went AWOL. We're currently auditioning a...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:39:00 GMT