Joanie Loves Trotsky

• Genere: Altro / Powerpop / Rock

  Posizione MORRISTOWN, New Jersey, US

  Visualizzazioni profilo: 4775

  Ultimo accesso: 12/05/2008

  Iscritto dal 10/02/2006

  Tipo di etichetta Major

• Biografia

  Formed in March 2001 and disbanded in 2004, Joanie Loves Trotsky was a four-piece rock band from North Jersey. The band never reached any noticeable level of popularity but every now and again, the band – Chris Murphy (bass), Jamie Davidson (guitar), Cliff Corcoran (vocals) and Dylan Gadino (drums) – experienced short bursts of moderately good things. .... Like there was that time some famous A&R guy from MCA Records asked them to deliver their second EP, Stop Having Fun (their first EP, JLT EP, sold 1,500 copies, according to lies in previous JLT bios) to his office because he heard that Joanie put on a more-than-average show at that year’s CMJ festival. .... Then there was that time that Joanie advanced in the WDHA battle of the bands. They even got to hear their song, “Waiting for the Weekend” on that station— a real, live commercial radio station! For the battle, Joanie put on a killer show at the Shark Bar in Morristown only to get brutally trounced by some blues-rock band and some emo upstarts. The latter band clearly had the jumping-with-guitars thing down to a science. .... Then there was their summer tour of 2003. Joanie hit NYC, Philadelphia, LaCrosse, Detroit, Minneapolis, Boston and Pittsburgh. Having no label behind them, no publicist pushing their music, and really, no intentions of hitting these cities on a regular basis in the future, this tour was just an excuse for the band to tell their friends something approximating, “I was on tour last summer” and to drink beer in shitty clubs outside of NYC and New Jersey. .... The band also got a chance to play in front of no one at Love Sexy in Secaucus, NJ. On that fateful Thursday night, the Joanies lugged their gear in, set up, waited for the crowd and began playing an impromptu jam in front of singer, Cliff. You see Cliff, understandably, didn’t even have the will to stand up on stage and pretend like someone would show up. The boys left the stage having played no JLT songs. .... Eventually nights like these started taking its toll on the band. By 2004 Ken Aloisio had replaced Chris Murphy on bass but it just wasn’t the same. Joanie played its final show at Mercury Lounge in NYC that year. It was a Tuesday and lots of people showed up, which was silly. Didn’t they know that Joanie Loves Trotsky was totally about to break up? .... --Dylan Gadino .. --punchline magazine

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  Chris Murphy (bass) Cliff Corcoran (vocals) Dylan Gadino (drums) James Davidson (guitar)

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