Let's see. God, this is horribly self-indulgent on my part, but work's been awfully dull this afternoon...
1993-1995 - Frankfurt, Germany
W.H.Y. aka We Hate You
- played guitar/drums/screamed
- was the first band Thom Savant and I were in and basically the first band either of us had been in.
Mazehead
- drummer from W.H.Y.
- This was to be the band where I got to focus on being a drummer
- Ended up focusing entirely on guitar eventually
CamShaft
- odd sideproject from Mazehead/WHY
- all instrumental (pre-post-rock OMG!)
- I actually only played drums in this one. Finally.
- never played a show though.
Ausstag/Postcard
- another sideproject thing.
- mostly instrumental
- 95% improvisational.
- played a few shows w/ Mazehead.
- our big break - opening for
the Toadies in Fort Worth.
1995-1998
- Thom Savant and I tried our best to pull song ideas together.
- I mostly worked on playing guitar.
- We tried to start a band in Fort Collins, CO with a fellow W.H.Y. alum. Mostly didn't work 'cause Thom lived in Boston and the rest of us were in CO. Chief influences at the time were Bluetip and Kerosene 454.
1999 - Freiburg, Germany
School Project Band
- this guy was getting his doctorate in music (Freiburg's Uni is sorta the Berklee of Germany) and one of his projects was to get a bunch of people together to play songs he either wrote or coopted from standards. Except the idea was to get us playing them in his home country's style. He was from northern Italy.
- played 2 shows/performances
- I played classical guitar for this. My left hand hurt.
2000-2001 - Connecticut/Massachusetts
TKO(aka the Thom Kevin Project)
- lots of songwriting exercises, figuring out what "bus" means, differentiating between Shure microphones and stuff from Radio Shack.
- had trouble getting a drummer to commit, so I played most of the drums on the early demos (bad idea) and settled on playing bass until we could find a permanent bassist. Here's an
old demo of a current Savant song.
- the early version of the Savants started coming into form during the summer of '01, with assistance from our pal Bek and his parents, but then Thom broke his collarbone playing whiffleball.
2002 - Boston
The Prostitutes
- me, Thom, and our pal Bek moved out of Bek's parents' basement and into a proper rehearsal space.
- played 1 show with this line-up (thom - gtr, me - bass, bek - drums) and then Bek started law school
2003 - Boston
The Prostitutes
The Bon Savants
- after a ridiculously long search, we found a drummer in the form of Pietro, a guy in his late 30's looking for one last hurrah. Or 2.
- changed our name to the Bon Savants, thankfully.
- I inched my way closer to singing into a microphone, switched to guitar, and...
2003-present - Boston
Bon Savants