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The Triangle's Premiere 80's Rock Cover Band

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Aftershock kicked off in the middle of 2005 when a guy named JD (the guy writing this) decided to get off his a$$ and put together that "hair metal" band he had said for years he was going to do. He placed an ad on RaleighMusic.com something along the lines of:

    "Starting a cover band to focus on big hair covers and fun party songs (that you can dance to, think Bon Jovi, GnR, Def Leppard, Poison). If you love that music like I do, give me a shout. If you're looking to cut an album, tour the world and become rich and famous doing this, don't bother me. I'm just looking to play locally and have fun doing it."

Or something like that. Within hours (practically), JD heard back from a singer named Rob and a guitar player named Jonny. JD already had a band name and a logo designed which should have clued Rob and Jonny in that they would be joining a control freak, but they did anyway.

JD, Rob and Jonny very quickly got together over a couple beer's and decided to give it a go. We optimistically decided that we had three parts in place (you know, without really even hearing each other play), and set out to find a bass guitarist.

We auditioned a few different guys on bass and never really found a good fit. So, JD asked a buddy of his who was quickly becoming a pretty damn good bass player if he wanted to check it out. Turns out he did, and Lance became the fourth piece in the puzzle. This all happened within days, which is pretty amazing and cool.

Since then we've had some member changes...Jonny moved back up north to Maine and was replaced by Max Patterson. Through a friend-of-a-friend we hooked up with Max in February 2006 who insanely agreed to learn our entire song list in like 2 weeks in order to keep our booked gigs. He did it, we played, we rocked.

Max began developing his EMT career the last part of 2007, this time commitment led Max to step down from Aftershock as of January 2008.

Max's departure and our desire to enhance our musical direction led us to Dave Hardman as our lead guitar player. Lance and JD had played with Dave for years and he has added a whole new dimension to Aftershock's musicality.

The rest, as they say, is history.

                                  
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