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The Way Up

About Me

the way up is. dave ross, john pioli, and dan carlisle come together under the name to bring you the finest sounds collaboratively available to them. carefully balancing styles and influences these charaters invent the old just like they used to, and bring forth the next wave of at least themselves. skilled, talented, inventive, discriminate, and clever, the way up is the best bad idea anyone with ears ever had. please listen share and enjoy.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/24/2006
Band Members: john pioli - guitar, vocals
dave ross - guitar, vocals
dan carlisle - bass, vocals
nate moore - drums
Influences:

other peoples music, whiskey, coffee, lack of sleep
Sounds Like: We here at TheWayUp refuse to tell you what we think we sound like. However, that will not refrain us from naming a few bands that people have mentioned along with our name in comparison:

Big Star, Beatles, Queens of the Stone Age, Pavement, Nation of Ulysses (wow, that's an obsure one), Radiohead (which is a little confusing), The Cars on acid

Make up your own mind :)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

8/9/08 Cousin Larry’s review

WOW.Thank you to Cousin Larry's for hosting the show, and to Sarianna & The Swell for wanting us to play with them. Also, we cannot say enough good things about The Sterns or The Blue Pages, two Bost...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:59:00 GMT

Bitter End report

The Way Up played our first headlining show in NYC down at The Bitter End last night.  And here's what we have to say:Thank you.To all of you who came out to support us, thank you.To all of you w...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:56:00 GMT

HALLOWEEN SHOW!

Holy crap, people... if you weren't at the show last night, partying with us, then you really missed a probably-not-gonna-happen-again kind of thing.  Cheap beer + costumes + live music = the bes...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:21:00 GMT

HAHA Surprise!

So, we didn't know it was coming either.Last Saturday, The Way Up played an unannounced surprise show at Acoustic Cafe.  How unannounced/surprise?  We didn't know it was happening until it h...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:40:00 GMT

Yet another update :)

Hey everybody, It's been awhile since an update was posted... here goes: We are FAR from inactive.  Instead, we are writing and rehearsing new songs so we don't get bored with the old ones.&nbs...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:30:00 GMT

Live The Day Cool Festival

Hey all, So we played the LIVE THE DAY COOL Festival in Norwalk today, and, if I do say so, it went really well :) If anyone has pictures or video, please send them along to us, we would like that ve...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:02:00 GMT

Cousin Larry's w/ Sariana review

Okay... So, we were bulletining you guys to death that we were gonna play with two touring bands, The Innocents and The Happy Accidents... this show was changed around at the last minute.  The V...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:38:00 GMT

Twice in one day, you troopers you!

HEY!So, saturday was an absolute blast.  We got to experience Hat City Music Festival, drink inexpensive beer, eat good food, and, more importantly, got to meet and hang out with a LOT of great p...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:57:00 GMT

Cousin Larry's 6/1/07

THANK YOUS to the following:- Cousin Larry's for hosting the show- Tony [from Sneakthief/Sub Rosa for booking the show with us]- Jeff & John for working the door- The staff of Cousin Larry's- Bren...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:09:00 GMT

The BLUE report

Mo Folkies know how to tear bluegrass upVaporizers know how to keep yr head a bobbinThe bartending staff is both friendly and fastAll of you were there and listening and having funThank ALL of you!See...
Posted by on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:16:00 GMT