R.I.P. 2001-2006 - WE BROKE UP (see below) SO WE HARDLY EVER COME HERE TO SEE COMMENTS/FRIEND REQUESTS, ETC. IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT EX-MEMBERS, GO TO OUR REAL WEBSITE AND EMAIL USDouglas and Kammy now play in 97-shiki , Jake playing in Canadian Rifle and Douglas also plays in Days Off
Our real website is at http://www.fourthrotor.com/
We were a DiY band from Chicago. Fuck the music business. Fuck major labels. Fuck the hype.
Fourth Rotor is over.
After a hiatus over the summer, we've now decided to stop doing the band. It was a very hard decision for all of us to make, but we made it. The hardest part is that there's no bad blood -- we're all solid friends. So why? Jake has been feeling his creative energies pulled towards other things, and he's been feeling like he doesn't have the energy to put into Fourth Rotor like he once did. We all felt that unless we were all 100%, that it wouldn't be the same, so regrettably, we've decided to end it.
There's so many things to be said about what we'll miss by not being in Fourth Rotor anymore. The list is long. This is the longest each of us have been in a band (6 years!). The biggest thing has be that we all had such a great freakin time in this band, and all got along so fantastically. Nothing was a chore, everything was fun. No matter if something on a tour went wrong, or a show got screwed up, or something else -- we never freaked out -- we just dealt with it, counted on each other, and kept having fun. THAT we're all going to miss, and we all know it will be hard to ever find like this again.
And we'll miss all the people who really, genuinely supported us, were inspired by us, put out our records, went on tour with us, booked and played shows with us, and said some really nice things. We've always done this band for ourselves, to get our own ideas, frustrations, and reactions out, but it was always awesome when someone said they got something deep out of it too. And lots of you did. We thank you all for that.
Bands come and go, and so this one went after a great run. We were lucky to have been able to enjoy it the whole time, achieve lots and lots of things that we're very proud of along the way. But none of us are close to done making music. However, instead of the challenge of making more Fourth Rotor music, we're going to head out, find other challenges, and make new music in new projects and bands. So look for us out there.
We'll keep the main site, and the myspace site, up for the foreseeable future. And our @fourthrotor.com email will keep working for a long time too, so keep in touch. We'll post info about any our new projects there as well. Things feel pretty shitty right now, but that'll pass. If it didn't hurt, then something would've been wrong, right?
-- Fourth Rotor, Sept 2006
We put up this MySpace website because so many people seem to hang out here, but we hardly ever visit or update this page. For the real scoop, info, schedules, discography, downloads, and store, visit our actual website, http://www.fourthrotor.com/ .