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- Hometown:
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Age:
- 6 months
- Website:
- http://www.myspace.com/atomicpotato
- Favorite Bands / Influences:
- A-Z
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches
Blue Meanies
The Beatles
Catch 22
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Fishbone
The Frankl Project
Goldfinger
Green Day
Huey Lewis and the News
Jeffries Fan Club
Mad Caddies
Mu330
Mustard Plug
Miasmics
Matt Wixson
Mars Volta
Metallica
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Mindless Self Indulgence
My Chemical Romance
One Cool Guy
Operation Ivy
Panic at the Disco
Rancid
Ray Charles
Reel Big Fish
RX Bandits
The Specials
Streetlight Manifesto
Skatalites
Suburban Legends
System of a Down
Sublime
311
Weezer
- I am a...
- SKA Band, SKA Enthusiast, Musician, Promoter, Unique Individual who can not be categorized
- About Me:
- 2004
Originally a band formed in Hamilton, Ohio in June called "The Inner Darkness", the original goal of founding members ROBBY SAGER, JOSH GOODPASTER, Trevor Hobbs, ADAM MEYER and Brian Lynch was to bring Ska, Rock, Emotive Hardcore and Pop-Punk all together into a BIG brassy explosion... the result was a fun band that had a lot of music but no voice (Noone had the balls to step up and sing)...
2005
The Inner Darkness (S.I.D) played a couple of house shows, a show in a dorm hallway and the Hamilton High School Talent Show...
2006
The band went on hiatus due to members pursuing other ventures such as that whole higher education thing... Robby began writing more music on his own and played in a Blues Brothers cover band, a rock band with future Atomic Potato member MITCH JONES, and some jazz odyssey experiment tenatively titled "The Bush Administration"
2007
April would see the reformation of the original plan come together when Robby took after the likes of Jeff Rosenstock’s project Bomb The Music Industry and began writing and recording songs with the idea that maybe he could get other musicians to play them. In June 2007 Mitch Jones (guitarist Robby played with in the band "Backseat Confidential") joined on drums and Louis Matza on Saxophone. The tenative name of this project was Robomat Jones... Frustrating musical differences and schedule conflicts meant the end of that short lived line-up and Robby was on his own again. In 3 days in August of 2007 Robby rerecorded 15 songs (Every instrument performed by himself) that he had written in the last 2 years, stuck it on a disc and called it "The Future Isn’t What It Used to be"... He burned 80 CDs, grabbed an acoustic and left for Cleveland to perform guerilla style outside of the mother of all 3rd wave ska shows "Shout it Loud" tour (feat. Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake) at the Agora ballroom to a crowd of about 3. The next day in Cincinnati he did the same outside of Bogarts for quite a few more... and then again that Saturday in Columbus. In September Robby played solo except this time using a laptop with Ska-Core giants The Flaming Tsunamis, Matt Wixson and The Best Revenge. In October MITCH JONES returned to the project to play drums. Adam Meyer joined again on trumpet and this time backup vocals! Corey Montgomery and Nick Shope from "All Alliteration Aside" joined on guitar and bass respectively. This line-up was deemed Tle Skatomic Potato after witnessing a baked potato explode while listening to "Please Don’t Bend" by Desmond Dekker. Shortly after deciding on a name another addition was made, BEN VANDERPOOL joined on trombone and trumpet, the line-up seemed perfect but seeing as Nick and Corey lived 35 miles away from the rest of the band they left on good terms... the band’s future was looking really shaky. In the darkest hour came the missing piece to the puzzle when Max Moon was invited to a jam session. Mitch moved from his position on drums and learned all of the songs on bass in almost one practice and something was definitely right. The band was clicking... Atomic Potato’s first show took place December 14th, 2007 @ The Parkland Theater in Cleves, Ohio. Since that show things have skyrocketed. They recorded a demo CD in one day called "School Spirit EP" and are still giving it out for free at shows...
2008 -
On January 21st Wade Knight started filling in for Atomic Potato after Max left the group for whatever reason... On March 22nd Wade left Atomic Potato and we went to our 4th drummer (Philly). Between March 22nd and May 1st 2008 Atomic Potato recorded a brand new studio EP called "Life Is Grand" which is released May 11th, 2008.
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