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Finch Biography
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Source: http://www.finchmusic.com
Have you heard the one about the Drive-Thru band that started off in high school sounding suspiciously like one of its major influences before finding its own sound and catching the ear of the eminent label?
Sure you have, only the story didn't quite go the way this one does. Finch didn't start off by aping the sounds of Blink 182, or Jimmy Eat World, or any of the other usual suspects. In fact, that was the furthest thing from their mind.
"We were pretty much a Deftones ripoff band," singer Nate admits sheepishly. In those days, the Temecula, California based band was called Numb, but it was essentially the same band. Except for one key element, that is: Randy.
Initially recruited as a second guitarist to bolster Numb's sound, Randy's musical interests were hardly shared with the rest of the band. "Temecula is really cliquey. I had my surfer/skater friends, and we'd listen to punk rock," says Randy. "When I was first in the band, everyone hated punk except Derek."
So what attracted them to Randy of all people? "I was in this band called Evitca Fresh. We were playing our bass player Jeremy's birthday, and Numb came to watch us play," Randy explains. "Derek (Numb/Finch's bassist) came up to me after the show and he goes, ˜Hey, your girlfriend's hot!" And I'm like, "What? Thanks, I guess."
"It kind of creeped me out," Randy continues. "But then he pursued me a few days later, and he was like, ˜You're a good guitar player, dude. You should come play for our band!"
A dubious beginning, no doubt, but when Randy finally decided to enter the fold it would prove a major turning point for the band.
"Randy's totally influenced by punk, so he brought that element, and it started changing things," says Nate. "He introduced us to things like Jimmy Eat World and emo-ish stuff, too. Everyone started listening to it and getting our own ideas. It's been a little over a year and a half since we've all been working together, and the music has changed so much since then."
It's not that Randy became the architect of a new sound for the band, but the clash of his punk and emo influences with their heavier ones brought Finch collectively to something that wasn't exactly any of those things.
"We're waiting for someone to throw us into a category” because we don't really know what genre we are, either," says Nate. "There are so many different elements and different ideas in our music that it's hard to classify."
"It's just our style now," echoes Randy. "We're all on the same wavelength. We developed our style together, we built it up, so now we all write similar songs."
The addition of Randy didn't just broaden the newly renamed Finch's approach to music. It changed their entire perspective on being a band. Up to that point, the thought of inking a record deal hadn't even crossed their minds.
"I was working and doing school, and the band was just something else to do. I didn't really care if we got signed or not," says Nate. "But when we hooked up with Randy, he kept talking about Drive-Thru Records."
As it turns out, Randy had kept in touch with Drive-Thru since writing a fan letter to the label years earlier. He'd even tried to pique the label's interest with his previous bands. Needless to say, when Randy told his new band mates about his relationship with the label, he was met with a bit of excitement.
"Richard (Drive-Thru Record's owner) was like, "All right, come and play for me," says Randy. "So we rented a studio. Richard wasn't even stoked, he was just doing it as a favor. But we went up there and played, and he was blown away."
So blown away, in fact, that he called his sister and Drive-Thru co-owner Stefanie into the studio to check the band out. She was duly impressed , and Finch was offered a contract on the spot.
Which just about brings us up to date. Finch's debut, a four-song EP produced by Chris Fudurich (The Hippos, Rx Bandits), will be in stores on Drive-Thru on October 9, 2001.
The band has been working on its first full length with producer Mark Trombino (Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, Midtown), which ought to give you an idea of the faith the label has in its new signing. Finch's sound continues to grow in new directions, although they're no closer to being able to tell you just what genre that sound fits into. And the plan from here is simple:"We're gonna finish our album, and then we're gonna go on tour and get homesick," says Randy. "And then we'll come back for a little bit, and go on tour and get homesick again, until we turn 30 and we're Drive-Thru has-beens." |
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Review about Finch
a great band | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/20/2008
yeah, their 2nd album, 'Say Hello To Sunshine', is a very great music. I just tried my first time listen to it and I said "wow!". then I've became addicted to the whole cd and to finch. :o .anyways, it is very great that they're back now, and recently released their work of what they recently up to now, the finch EP.
say hello to sunshine | Reviewer: lg | 7/8/2008
finch is one of most under rated rock bands ive heard!! and can be 1 of best!! wen i 1st bought the cd "say hello to sunshine" my hole life changed it the best sound of rock i have ever listened to. every day i listen to the hole cd. and get sad to find out they've broken up. there sound is so good and they should re-release "say hello to sunshine" i tell someone new everyday about finch and spread the word to show support hoping they would get back togetherand they have!!!!! im hoping that they would continue that great sound on there next album coming out this year. i want them to know that they are truly talented and i will always be a life time fan of thiers. im glad they worked things out and i hope it stays that way. i look for to seeing you on tour very very soon.
much love and repect
-gary
favourite band | Reviewer: rory | 7/9/2007
finch is just awesome full stop(.)
i wish they didnt split up i nearly cried when i saw that on the fn page...
first album amazing second album amazing which is better i dont now.. but there so diffrent its not emo or punk or pop..
it s just finch!!
i love it fave songs stay with me and of course insomniatic meat xxxxxx im not gay but i miss you!!!
wow | Reviewer: Kat | 6/2/2007
i love this band. my two fave songs are new beginnings and waiting. theyre so effin amazing. haha im a dork.
Pictures of Finch | Reviewer: Kida | 5/6/2007
Ow......
So..... I'm want pictures of Finch....
Photos...... Cause I love so Finch!
Thanks .......
the best | Reviewer: Renata | 5/23/2006
i like so much finch specialy nate,he is hot=)for me the best songs are worms of the earth and letters to you.FINCH IS THE BEST
I'm surprised... | Reviewer: Priss | 11/16/2005
I'm the second perosn to wirte a reveiw of them... THEY ROcK!!! I love both albums. The first is more emo, and the second is scremo/post hardcore. I dunno whichI love more, but the music is fuckin AWESOME! I've always love Finch, since I heard 'letters to oy', then I heard 'worms of the earth' and I decided i NEEDED their new album. I still haven't got hte first one, but the second and third are soo wicked cool, you'd be a martian prick not to listen! LOL!
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AWESOME BAND | Reviewer: katrina | 9/14/2005
i got a copy of their cd 'what it is to burn' off my ex when he came back from america, and had a listen and loved them. they are a little bit like old stuff of the used maybe??? bit heavy bit not. anyway, my kinda music!!!
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