christie front drive

Christie Front Drive- After The Parade

"If I remember the story correctly, they got together in Colorado in 1993, when Eric had been playing with both Jason and Ron. One day Kerry accidentally showed up during their practice, and in brief: things happened, the band formed, and Christie Front Drive created some of the most amazing music I've heard. They released two LPs, and appeared on a variety of 7"s and compilations. The first LP and most of the 7"s were compiled onto a CD by Caulfield Records, and you might say the music lives on today not only from their body of work, but even through the countless bands who they influenced. CFD toured North America and recorded until they disbanded in 1996."



"After Christie Front Drive broke up, the members continued their musical pursuits in other bands. Jason and Ron formed The Blue Ontario who put out an awesome EP with two orginal songs and a few remixes. It came out on a clear vinyl 12" and CD, and I dunno where to get it now other than maybe eBay. Unfortunately, The Blue Ontatio also split up.

Since then, Ron became involved in a bunch of projects, including playing shows with Go Big Casino (Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World's side project), recording for a variety of musicians, and recently playing drums for a band by the name of ...and guppies eat their young.

Eric went on to Antarctica, an electronic-infused band who Pitchfork Media pretty keenly compared to The Cure and New Order. They went seperate ways, but left behind an EP and full-length, both put out on CD by File-13. Those albums can still be had in music stores.

Kerry took some time off, played briefly in a band called Esperanto, and in 2002 released an album under the name The Mighty Rime. The album almost sounds to me like a sparse Built to Spill (read: wow.) This one came out on Caulfield Records and can be found in a bunch of places, some of which you can find on the links page of this site. The link to The Mighty Rime's website can be found to the right.

Most recently, Eric has formed an awesome power-pop-post-something band called The 101. After a couple of line-up changes, their long awaited first EP was put out by the Self-Starter Foundation in 2003. See the link to the right to visit the band's website, for tour dates, mp3's and more."

-www.christiefrontdrive.com

These guys in this band went on to be in bands featured in Pitchfork Media and had contracts with File-13 records. This means that these guys rule. I am blown away that I didn't find them sooner, considering they were on the same label as some of my favorite 90's emo bands, like Mineral.

Speaking of emo, all are required to read the entirity of the new side link Define:Emo. This is the most accurate page on the entire internet on the subject so read up so you don't look like an ignorant child when you use the e word. This is common knowledge to me, and it good to know if you are reading the site. I dont want to see any person be like:

"Like OMG these guys are emo? But theyre not like Fall Out Boy/Panic At The Disco/ Insert Mall Emo Band Here"

Because your should know damn better than that.

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