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Sympathetic Rage

About Me

Sympathetic Rage is a currently a side project in the making while myself, Jonathan is currently playing bass for Mickael Maddison's live band:
www.myspace.com/mickaelmaddison
www.mickaelmaddison.com
I estimate this project will be a long time in the making.
The musical dream of Sympathetic Rage is to take the four peice rock band as we know it, and disregard the rules, treating drums and bass alike with guitar and singer as if they were part of an old classical 4 peice string quartet or an ancient concerto by many of the greats. Where all instruments are equal, whether man says they are or not. And where even drums are allowed to pile layers upon layers of varying melody into the equation.
It's a dream that has met with an abnoxious amount of criticism as long as I've had it. But that dream has come back time and time again.
Sympathetic Rage currently has several songs in the making but I expect it will be months before any full tunes are available.
Until then there may soon be some improvised 'for fun' bass guitar rants available.
In the meantime I'll be busy keeping up the backend in Mickael Maddison's live band.
Jonathan
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
A cook happened to record this little clip on his digital camera. A small going away party for the first civilian employees being sent home from Camp Julien in Kabul Afghanistan (where I was working at the time - Nov 2005). Imagine a 5 hour unrehearsed cover session with a big bonfire/bbq, friends and coworkers, and beer, deep in the desert, after you've been locked up in a military compound for many months, and you're two weeks from going home. I'm on the red bass, playing behind the singer. Not bad audio for a digital camera. Thanks for the video Ed. And thanks to Damon and Scott for letting me join them.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/08/2006
Band Members: Jonathan Anthony
Influences: Cliff Burton, Metallica, Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Mayfield Four, Matthew Good Band, J.S. Bach
Sounds Like: A duel between the Undertaker and the Grim Reaper... on Bass
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Less is more? New take of the 3 part invention - and a new name.

So my friends and fanatical followers and insane posse's of groupies... I'd like to thank you all for your support....Uhhh, sorry - I'm working on that speech for later on.  Where was I...I've ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Demo posted - Recording - oh the horror

Well I've been doing my best to get a sample recording up to show you what SympatheticRage is all about but a few technical issues keep getting in the way.  Hopefully they'll be sorted out in the...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:59:00 GMT

Mickael Maddison opening for Cold Driven

Hey everyone.  You'll want to check out the serious quality of Cold Driven's tunes and particularly their music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R581fo7CiYU "Heavier than heaven".  ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 15:02:00 GMT

still kickin

It’s been forever since I posted anything here but that’s to be expected with the myspace/facebook war making us folk wonder where it’s worth investing our time keeping up on things....
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:09:00 GMT

3 cheers for facebook?

So I wonder what the long term impacts will be of the late great facebook craze.I myself have barely been on myspace in the last few months because a) I've been busy and b) facebook created a communit...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:24:00 GMT

indie invasion

So last week Kamloops was invaded by several young bands again at the Pavillion Theatre.Unreasonably Doubted (what are they called now?) set up another great lineup with enough bands that I don't even...
Posted by on Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Drummers Ahoy!

Mickael Maddison is now auditioning for new drummers. We're hoping for someone who can be active for practices and gigs. Give us a call!
Posted by on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:04:00 GMT

standing out from the crowd

I keep asking myself this question every couple of weeks and I haven't managed to come up with an answer that'll stick, which isn't surprising considering how broad the question really is. "What make...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Where to next?

Well we had a quiet little show (Mickael Maddison www.myspace.com/mickaelmaddison ) with our drummer's solo project This Day Yesterday and some friends of his.  Only our second non-pub show so fa...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

On The Rocks was a blast

Mickael Maddison - 5 shows down, and how many to come?The show at On The Rocks this saturday was the most fun I've had in a long time. The lively and responsive crowd was full of cheer and beer. Tha...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT