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The Grasshopper's Dying Words

About Me

MyGen Profile Generatorwe started in spring of 2006 as sort of an inside joke among friends. but we still somehow sound pretty good, and we play music that is probably very much fun to listen to. you probably want to book us now.

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Music:

Member Since: 05/05/2006
Band Website: www.purevolume.com/thegrasshoppersdyingwords
Band Members: Shea Henley--Vocals
Brian Stark--Bass
Gilberto Contreres--Guitar
Hiroki Uehira--Drums
Brandon McGhee--Keys

The Necessary Horns:
Justin Woodward--Trumpet
Thomas Davis--Trumpet
Chris Reardon--Sax
Josh Walley--Trombone
Keith Bjorklund--Theramin
Influences: Blood Sweat & Tears, Radiohead, Chicago, White Stripes, Charles Mingus, The Who, Elton John, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Cake, the Beatles, Miles Davis, Snarky Puppy, Weather Report, Led Zeppelin, Return to Forever, Burt Bacharach, the Yellowjackets, Jaco Pastorius
Sounds Like: Chicago. Yeah, we pretty much sound like Chicago. We might even move to Chicago, someday. There might be a little BloodSweat&Tears and White Stripes and Talking Heads in there, too. But those are not cities we can move to.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

things on the internet are pretty much stuck there

so lately i've been very sensitive to sneezings. like, not too long ago i started noticing that it is polite to say "God bless you" or something when somebody sneezed. then i started noticing whethe...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:49:00 GMT

i am up to no good

somedays you just feel like posting another blog. you don't even really feel like saying anything. this is nuts.
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:32:00 GMT

supplies!

sometimes things just take you by surprise, sometimes good things show up when you least expect them to and things that you thought would last for ever come to an end, just like THAT.   for examp...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:29:00 GMT

read if you dare

as chief webmaster, it is my obligation nay my DUTY to provide you with consistently entertaining blogs (like this!) at least once a week.  so here it is. i am back in denton again. i was all exc...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:11:00 GMT

Ok fine I am here [the European one]

Hey so yea I'm writing a blog you see?  Man how about these studio cuts huh?  Seriously, these are awesome.  I'm totally diggin Shea's new interval in Lincoln Almond Price and how about...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:48:00 GMT

let the water hold me down

so no kidding around this time, you guys, ok?i just spent the past 4 days at a friend's wedding in freaking california. i was a groomsman. i got to stay at this resort called the "St. Regis Resort" ...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 11:57:00 GMT

after i finish this blog i will probably eat lunch and play ukelele [by the hawaiian one]

for those of you who are worried (and among that i include anyone that does not take the 6th chapter of matthew seriously) you have one less thing to trouble you and that is: grasshopper recordings ar...
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:51:00 GMT

preserving my AURA OF MYSTIQUE [by the invisible one]

home (massachusetts!) is an exciting place to be, and the less i am there, the more exciting it gets. the exciting thing about this time is all of a sudden my family has WIRELESS INTERNET and FREAKIN...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:46:00 GMT

KEEPING HOPE ALIVE

school is over and everyone is leaving.  does anybody remember emergenza, which is the contest that we won a couple months ago?  well we have still not told our sponsor-man that we are not g...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 09:37:00 GMT

i can read too )bybrandonondon!(

this one time i read a book where this dude goes to harvard and drowns himself in a river.  the boy also has a retarded brother who narrates everything in the wrong order.  it was a sad book...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:17:00 GMT