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About Me

The Real California (TRC) is a band from Ohio. What started out as some home recorded demonstrations by Ron is now a full four-piece band. We play live shows and do recordings. We like a lot of different music. Some of our biggest influences are Neil Young, Pearl Jam, John Frusciante, Soundgarden, Pedro The Lion, and Pink Floyd. Sometimes it comes out in our music. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes Ron writes all of the stuff. Sometimes the whole band does. It all depends. Either way, the songs are our songs because we are a band. Our songs are usually about something that happened to us or something that inspires us or something that we just think would make an interesting song.You may recognize some of us from The Peachbones. That's because TRC is a side-project that Ron and Donne started several years back. You also may recognize Jose, as he used to play bass in another band called Bel Auburn. Neither band sees much action these days.We will be playing shows soon and hopefully our album will be completed soon as well.

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Member Since: 30/12/2004
Band Website: You're looking at it! :-)
Band Members: Ron Copenhaver: vocals, guitar, synth, and sometimes bass and drums; Jose Ortiz: bass; Toby Loy: guitar; Bobby Bennett: guitar; Donne Copenhaver: drums. (We had the great services of Andrew Ditlevson on guitar on some of the earlier recordings, so we want to give our props to him).
Influences: Among the biggest would be Neil Young, Soundgarden, Red House Painters, Pedro The Lion, John Frusciante, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, and Idaho.
Sounds Like: Decide for yourself.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Noetic on iTunes!

Hello, our debut album Noetic is now available on iTunes. simply type in "The Real California" in your search. it's not the first album that comes up, but it's there!-ron
Posted by on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:43:00 GMT

Columbus Alive review

Here is the link to a Columbus Alive review:http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/st ories/2009/12/10/ca_m_cd-reviews.html?sid=108
Posted by on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:43:00 GMT

NOETIC IS HERE!

hey all, sorry for the delayed blog about our album. some of you know that Noetic is finally finished and is available for purchase! some of you know this, some don't. for those who didn't know, w...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:58:00 GMT

Noetic update 28 Oct 09, 4:38pm

hello all, there has been a slight mix up with the CD manufacturer. they were having some problems silk-screening the CD face... this is a minor set back... the good news is we will have CD's ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:00 GMT

Noetic: nearly finished!

hello all...over the past couple of days the artwork for our album has become 99% finished. we hope to send it off to the printers on friday the 9th of october or saturday the 10th... or the followin...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:57:00 GMT

Noetic release date coming close!

hello... it appears as though our debut album Noetic will be available at our next scheduled show! keep halloween 2009 open and come out to Monte B's in ashland, ohio and you can buy a copy! i spoke...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:35:00 GMT

ALROSA VILLA SHOW INFO!

OK. three things to mention for the update. 1.) the overall time of the show has been pushed back one hour from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. 2.) we will definitely NOT be playing first. we've sold enough ticke...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:50:00 GMT

Alrosa Villa ticket info

hey all. we need to sell at least 30 tickets to the Alrosa Show... so... let's do this thang! they are $8.00 if you buy them before the show... they are $10.00 if you pay at the door day of.the tim...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:49:00 GMT

two new NEW songs!!!

we've posted two new songs. neither will be on our debut, so they are new NEW songs.the first is a song called "Trash Day." it's a glimpse into what we're working on right now in terms of writing ne...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:14:00 GMT

Cover art, moving forward

as you can see by the new profile pic, the early versions of the artwork for Noetic are being worked on by our good friend Andy Taray. i'm 99.9% sure this is going to be the cover to the album. the ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 06:48:00 GMT