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About Me

Here is our story in a nutshell. 3 of us used to be in a band called GRAND NATIONAL. We recorded an extended play compact disc in Los Angeles called Kingsize that opened many doors for us, we had a great producer, fantastic Canadian mixer, Hollywood manager, a powerful publicist and a hot shot NYC lawyer. We were in several national magazines like Magnet, Drum!, Amplifier, Revolver, etc., and we got to play great rooms all over the east coast like The Metro in Chicago and Mercury Lounge in NYC, things should have been good! Even though the future seemed bright we all kinda seemed miserable. We were frustrated and tired and eventually we broke down and the band quickly dissolved in 2003 with no farewell show, Brian took a well needed break, Jeff continued to play with Last Days Of Radio & Alex played with a few projects as well. By June of 2004, inspired and rested Brian had amassed a great collection of songs that he played for Alex and Jeff. Everyone agreed that the music was as good if not better than GN and the spark had once again been lit. This time around though we make music for our happiness only and it feels like it did when we first picked up instuments. We named the band Humphrey, got ourselves a fourth member named A.J. and vowed that if it ever becomes anything but fun we wonâ€™t do it.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 1/1/2005
Band Website: humphreyrock.com
Band Members: Brian Jeffrey Woods - Guitar & Lead Vox ///// Alexander Leon Perry - Bass ///// Jeffrey "Jeffro" Schaller - Drums ///// Anthony (not Arthur) Dicembre - Guitar & Backing Vox
Influences: Jellyfish, Sloan, Paul McCartney & Wings, Weezer, The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Who, Dave Clark 5, Electric Light Orchestra, The Kinks, Supergrass, Imperial Drag, Kiss, Beach Boys, Matthew Sweet, The Guess Who, Elvis Presley, Queen, The Doobie Brothers, Oasis, Chicago, The Cars, America, Player (yeah, we said Player), Hall & Oates, Styx, The Temptations, Jet (the band and the Wings song), Sweet, Def Leppard (1st two albums only), Bread, Carole King, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Bee Gees, and last but not least NEIL FUCKING DIAMOND BITCHES!!!
Sounds Like: smart, catchy, 70's era power pop
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Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

sweet new CD review posted

Here's the first review of the new CD from Night & Day Magazine, 3.5 out of 4 stars.
Posted by Humphrey on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:29:00 PST

our new cd called "7 Golden Greats For A Sunday Drive"

well holy shit, our new cd called "7 Golden Greats For A Sunday Drive" is finally in stores, who would have thunk it?? What took so long you ask? Who the hell knows to be honest, it's not like we we...
Posted by Humphrey on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:52:00 PST

Humphrey at TATS and 2 new tunes

So we got asked to play Thursday At The Square very last minute this week, thanks to Ryan from Agent Me and Steve Joseph for the hookup. 4 pics are available from the show in the picture section, tha...
Posted by Humphrey on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:34:00 PST

Studio update

So we're deep into our first album which is so far called Heavyweights & Standards. As of now we've finished bass & drums for 8 songs, guitars for about 6 and vocals for 2. On June 27th we're goin...
Posted by Humphrey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Humphrey BUFFALO NEWS feature

The super cool Buffalo News reporter Seamus Gallivan did a feature on Humphrey in the Buffalo News Gusto. Here is the article for any out of towners.... http://www.humphreyrock.com/BUFFALOnews.jpg
Posted by Humphrey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

our previous sounds circa 2001-03

We now have a site for our old group Grand National on myspace, just another way to bring people here and connect with old friends we met while traveling a few years ago. We don't play any of the son...
Posted by Humphrey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Introduction

Let me first introduce us, we're Humphrey. We're a quirky batch of guys that enjoy playing the rock music. I'm aj, a guitarist for the band. I'll be taking you on a journey through the time and lif...
Posted by Humphrey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST