The History of the Band

It all started back in the summer of 2000 when Preston Smith and Matt Browne decided to start a band. It was a Saturday morning when the very first band meet was held, Matt Browne on bass, Preston on drums, Aaron Sorensen on vocals with Matt Call on the keyboard. No work was really done that day, only dreaming of hitting it big and plucking at their respective instruments. But the face of the band was soon to change; Aaron quit after the first practice, John Preece came in on keyboard, Seth West and Ray Bateman joined as vocalists and Matt Call changed to guitar. While the motions within the band were disturbing, the band went on to create their first song "Running away". The song gave way to the band's first creative period, producing songs such as "A-bomb" and "Waiting". The band was still in an unstable condition, new members were coming in and out; Seth, John and Ray left, Derek Chatwin came in for a brief moment but promptly moved on and soon it was just Smith, Browne and Call. But this was soon to change  . . .
    2001 was a prolific time for the band, they were looking for members, writing new songs and had their band name: Revolution. New changes were coming their way though, a stable period that would really start to define who they were. It was in 2001 that Mike Karbakhsh joined the band as the new drummer, moving Preston to the keyboard. This opened a lot of new opportunities for Revolution, they really had a chance to sit down and work on their music. It was during this time that the band's name changed from Revolution to The K-Text to Grounded Every Minute to GEM, never really settling on a name for more than two weeks, but that didn't affect their work in the least. The songs " War will Come", "Set me Free", "11th of September" and the raw material that would become " Sunshine 24" and "Basic"came out of Mike's basement. But after a few months, the distance between the band members caused Mike to drop out.
    With no drummer, the band grew apart. Practicing was at an all time low, and no new music was written. But persistence paid off when Jason Kocherhans, upon hearing Matt Call and Matt Browne working out the kinks in "Set Me Free", said he would like to drum for the band. With a solid beat behind them once again, the band got things back into swing. Practicing and improving on past songs and working on new ones, the band seemed to be reborn.

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