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Vote Ronald

About Me

REUNION VIDEO!!!! LIVE @ BLONDESHELLS:LAST SHOW!!! :(it all started when Andrew wanted to form a band. he recruited me, then we recruited Strote and we called ourselves Northern Lights Falling (i know youve gotta be joking right.....no im not). we had no talent but had high hopes. we wrote bad songs and never practiced. drummers came and went, drummers who had no talent, Robby Pines, and drummers who we never practiced with but had talent, Kayla, then @ the start of 11th grade we got serious, recruited DC and started practicing and making real songs, real crap songs. we played our 1st show Friday December 14th 2007, and it went horrible. then we played International Night @ GHS and that was a disaster as well. we played at the 2nd Five Falling Crackers Fest, and we did better. We played at a NAACP protest party hosted by Kyle, which no one paid attention to, and our last show was at Jordan Jetts house on August 19th which led to our 1 day break up. We played fine, no probs with that finally, just a bad crowd and crabby David. afterwards we took a 1 week break cause some shit went down that we needed to kinda take a break from the band. this band was starting to go downhill, and it was starting to become not what i thought it was made to be, so I went back and wrote some new songs that were gonna change this band for good.....even its name eventually, which now weve changed to Vote Ronald. it has many meanings, but at the sametime none. yes Ronald was a bee i met at a high school football game, and he decided to run for president of the United States and give us free honey, and help our economy and such. he's part of the bee party, but the odds are against him, so the other idea is to reserect Ronald Reagan, and not being from the Reagan era, that really has no signicance, which is the contradicting part of our name. but besides from that were finally getting our act back together, writing real songs and not just the 3 same/lame chord progression pop punk songs, but actually putting our heart and souls into these songs and finally being the band we shouldve been a year ago!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/07/2006
Band Members: The Straight-Edge Marshmellow: Andrew Hammond (guitar/vox)The Werewolf: David DeLaRosa (vox/guitar)The Serial Bassist: Matt Strote (lead bass/vox)Our Drumming Savior: Daniel Cannistra (Lead Drums)Fuck McDonalds!
Influences: We like a lot of Punk, Ska, Pop Punk, Hardcore, Rock'n'Roll, just plain rock, Old School, East Coast, West Coast, Local, Anti War, Anti Racist, Anti Fighting Shit! Like:
Joe Queer of The Queers: "You play music because there’s something inside of you that says you have to play music. Now you get bands like Fall Out Boy that are basically created in the studio. The Warped Tour changed it. Fuck it. I just don’t like that shit. All the guys in the bands remind me of the jocks I hated in high school. To me a punk gig is a small sweaty club with the audience right in your face knocking over the mic stand and boogying off the energy."
even though most of us love warped tour, we can definatly agree on the first part of that statement.
NOFX, Less Than Jake, Descendents, Operation Ivy, The Queers, Screeching Weasel, Reel Big Fish, Adolescents, Bad Brains, Black Flag, The Secretions, The Aquabats, Bad Religion, The Casualties, Dropkick Murphys, Street Dogs, Left Alone, MxPx, Eve 6, Mest, The Offspring, Big D and The Kids Table, Bouncing Souls, Anti-Flag, The Flaming Lips, Death From Above 1979, Beck, Beastie Boys, Colin Meloy, The Phenomenauts, Horrorpops, The Unseen, Guttermouth, Mustard Plug, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Guts, The Leftovers, Set Your Goals, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Sheckies, The Rockvilles, Rancid, Sublime, Against Me!, Streetlight Manifesto, Against All Authority, Goldfinger, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, The Pietasters, The Slackers, The Toasters, Whole Wheat Bread, Choking Victim, Hank Wangford & the Poo Dogs (HWPD) (RIP), The Misfits, The Adicts, The Germs, The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, Tsunami Bomb, Elliott Smith (RIP), Johnny Cash (RIP), Dead Kennedys, The Clash, The Vandals, Social Distortion, Flogging Molly, The Tossers, Motion City Soundtrack, Blink-182, Lagwagon, The Loved Ones, Orange, and many many many many more!!! (trust me)
Sounds Like: Hawdcore Surf Punk..........its possible
Record Label: Mutant Chipmunk Records (IHop subdivision)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

WHAT THE!?!?!?!@!?@?!@??@?

no we are not back together, but we did have a ssemi reunion!Thank James of The Reese Witherspoon Disaster, he recorded these 2 songs last sunday at Blondeshells during an open mic after The Duppies a...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:15:00 GMT

Goodbye

Well the reign of Vote Ronald/Northern Lights Falling has ended for good, and on good terms. last Saturday April 25th 2009 marked the last show we will ever play together. This was a good one, and it ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 20:34:00 GMT

Last Show!!!!

Okay, so as those who have followed up with us, Saturday is our last show and as much as I want to continue the band I am very excited. We have our shit down and the show looks very promising. We will...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:56:00 GMT

Update!?!?!- Harcore Scooby Do?

ok so not really, but yes, after today thats what we have! 3 new songs you could consider hardcore and in-your-face (Religion, Infected, and Independence), and possibly a cover of the Scooby Do theme ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:04:00 GMT

So we have a demo out!?!?!

yep finally after busting our backs trying to get this piece of shit out, we finally did it. weve been handing them out...for FREE, around school to a couple of people. so if you want one just ask, or...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:30:00 GMT

MC Battle of the Bands? and more to come!!!

well it feels great, for once for the 1st time ever, were entering the Moco Battle of The Bands, and hopefully at least get in, thats all i ask for, is to get in. i ve got the application sheet right ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:39:00 GMT

From Nobodies to Fruity Sellout Nobodies!!!

i was just reading some of our old blogs, some which were funny, and some that made me wanna cry a little. so i guess really THIS blog is to kinda catch up on the shit thats happened in the past year,...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:46:00 GMT

GRRR!!!

we sold out. that is it. we played Barnes & Noble, i looked like a fruit (aka one of the Forever Sickest Kids people) and it was decent. but yeah i can honestly say a better show than Internationa...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:08:00 GMT

What The Fuck You'd Expect Us To Do?

Man, i was pretty psyched for halloween, but the long awaited November 1st show, was even more of a stretch. i love playing shows, going to shows, all that stuff, so i was pretty pumped. Well somethin...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:55:00 GMT

Vote Ronald....Is In DA HOUSE!!!

sorry i didnt post this as a blog sooner but pretty much Northern Lights Falling (NLF) is no more......and after some careful thinking we have decided to change our name to Vote Ronald. NLF was good a...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:11:00 GMT