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| Recent Updates These Are The Updates That Have Gone On Since I Started. 18/02/02 - Got the site up and running. Wrote it all for the first time. 24/02/02 - Changed the way the site looked. I wiped everything off the site, because I thought it was too stupid and I needed a more serious site. 25/02/02 - A few major updates like some template information removed, a web counter added, and i'm thinking of putting some online polls the site. 01/03/02 - Dominic seen the site! I had to make major changes... Secret's out..... 02/03/02 - I've been putting pictures and extended the home page. I'm trying to make it look like a real site now, with no templates. This means that the pictures page will take ages to do. 16/03/02 - Removed some stuff from the Home Page. Updated the games list. Changed some mistakes (i.e Having My December as an Old Linkin Park Song). Changed some information about Flash, changed the contact page. I've also updated the monitoring of the Guestbook (Have people looking at it for me all the time). Also put 'Song of the week' for the main Title of the page. It will change every week. 20/03/02 - Added a lot of stuff from operation flashpoint. I got a fan site kit form Codemasters (Http://www.codemasters.com/) There are a lot of nice things on that site. Other updates include a new song of the week, new definitions for Virus Protection added to the Pictures (Straight From My Hard Drive). I have sperad the word about this website a bit more, because I don't think anybody knows about it except me and my Friend (And Dominic...) More from me soon! 25/03/02 - Added my Result from a Spiderman Questionnaire. |
Papa Roach I'll change this page soon. I'm 'going off' P-Roach now... If you didn't know, the lead's real name is Coby Dick, and if you have ever listened to the song 'infest' you'll know that. I'm interested in music like linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and stuff like that. Papa Roach is very popular. The PSX Game, Tony Hawks' 2, a song, 'Blood Brothers' was featured on the game. Papa Roach is... Coby Dick - Vocals Jerry - Guitar Tobin - Bass Dave - Drums Bio (Part 1) I'm super-flamboyant, super-happy, and super-pissed-off," understates Papa Roach frontman Coby Dick. "I'm off the hook at shows. I've done stupid things where our lawyer was going, 'You can't be doing that!' but I've also hugged a million kids. How Nirvana was when they came out - that new edge of giving kids a release of emotions - that's how I hope people connect with Papa Roach's music. I want to cause every emotion in people. I want them to fight, to fuck; I want to bring out their violence, their sadness, and their happiness." Singer-Songwriter Dick, Guitarist Jerry Horton, Bassist Tobin Esperance, and Drummer Dave Buckner acheive Dicks estimable goals with INFEST. Produced by Jay Baumgardner (whose worked with Coal Chamber and System of a Down), Papa Roach's major label debut "is about dealing with everyday struggle,"according to Dick, whose lyrics for songs like "Broken Home," "Never Enough," "Binge," "Thrown Away," and "Last Resort," infest's first radio track are intensely personal and darkly seductive. Inspired from everything from Divorce ("Broken Home"), struggles with alcohol ("Binge"), Attention Deficit Disorder ("Thrown Away"), and suicide. ("Last Resort") Dick tends to write in the first person. "I deal a lot with the line between good and evil. And I tiptoe down that line myself," he confesses. "I have a side that's responsible, a part that knows right from wrong, and I have my punk rock, 'fuck everything' side." Says Horton of the band's sound; "We lean more towards hip hop, punk and funk, and we also have a rock influence, but we're not really rap-core. The songs have a pop structure, and they're very melodic, with a lot of layers and orchestration." For his part, Dick listens to hardcore bands, digs underground hip hop, played clarinet in his High Schools prize-winning wind ensemble and names Faith No Mores Mike Patton as one of his biggest influences. Press raves, too, bare out Papa Roach's diverse approach. Las Vegas City Life praised the quartet for it's "surprising moments of vulnerability and sensitivity in it's cathartic opera-core, [Dick] sounding almost pleading in the world weary voice of youth betrayed"; the publication also informed, "Papa Roach stakes out it's territory" (May 20, 1999). Sacramento's News & Review, meanwhile voted the band "most likely to show up Rage Against the Machine at their own gig" (June 3, 1999), and the San Jose Mercury News commended the foursome's "sheer urban grit" and Dick's "randy, alluring and apocalyptic" vocals (Aug. 5, 1999). Not bad for a kid who began "playing" music in his garage with "garbage cans and baseball bats" (and who later moved out while still in high school and began working at an airforce base hospital to support himself). Growing up in the Northern California town of Vacaville - for the moment best known as the onion capital of the world. P-Roach, as their legion of fans call them, formed in high school (Horton did not attend school with the others; he met them via an ex-girlfriend who was a P-Roach fan.) At the teens' first gig, a 1993 school talent show, Dick's mom overheard a judge mutter, "I hope they don't quit their day jobs." The band improved by leaps and bounds, however, and was soon selling out 300-500 seat venues (some of which would have required fake IDs had the band members been patrons). Despite their youth, the members of Papa Roach brought a wealth of experience to their developing sound. Buckner, a Los Angeles native whose first instrument was violin, was taking drum lessons from a 70-year-old female jazz drummer by the time he reached junior high. He quickly made first chair in concert band but shortly thereafter got his first drum kit (for Christmas) and proclaimed: "I'm sick of this school band crap - I wanna play rock 'n' roll!" His next move? "I sat down with [Led Zeppelin's] Physical Graffiti and a set of headphones and went to work." He says of his influences: "I remember being three years oldand listening to [Pink Floyd's] The Wall on car rides with my Mom. Later I would kick it at my aunt and uncle's with Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica on vinyl. My friends in grade school got me into Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys, and junior high was all about classic rock. In high school, I was into a whole range of stuff, from John Coltrane to Fugazi. That's when I discovered all the great and beautiful music that isn't part of the mainstream. I've kept my mind open since then. Esperance - who joined P-Roach at 13 - grewup watching his Dad play bass. "He got me my first bass when I was 10, " he recalls. His fingers blistered from the heavy bottom end he provides P-Roach, Esperance continues: "I had friends who were into jazz and reggae, and I took those and lumped them together. My Mom and I would listen to the same jazz music, or the Doors, or Duke Ellington. Then I had my punk rock category. He confirms that Papa Roach's music takes a similarly melting-pot tack, commenting: "People put us in the rap-rock category. I don't care what they call us, but we definitely do it differently from anyone out their right now." Though Infest is Papa Roach's major-leagues bow, the band has been spewing music to the masses via CD for several years. Their first recording adventure was 1995's Caca Bonita, whcihc was followed by Old Friends From Young Years. "That's what the future is, " Dick says of the title. "We wanna have longevity, and by putting that idea in the cosmos - it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy." Two more independent CD's also issued on the band's Onion Hardcore Recordings, built on the momentum: 1998's 5 Tracks Deep (which featured the song "Revenge" [formerly "Revenge In Japanese"], heard on an episode of MTV's "Road Rules") and 1999's "Let 'Em Know". Cranking these out at a steady pace did not keep P-Roach rom the stage, however. On the contrary, the band gigged steadily all over California - sometimes mounting as many as 14 shows a month - with acts like Kid Rock, Static-X, Incubus, Bad Brains and other such compadres on The Warped Tour. One of the questions most frequently aimed at the band concerns their moniker. It seems Buckner had a CD by jazz musician Pancho Sanchez called Papa Gato. The title struck a chord with Dick, whose grandfather's last name was Roatch - he was "Papa Roatch" to his family. Still, according to Dick: "For the longest time, it's had nothing to do with my grandpa. We drew up this cockroach logo because we wanted to avoid the weed thing. Weed's okay, but it's not what we're about; we're kinda like the cockroach that can survive anything - we're tough, warrior soldier band. We get out there and put the work in." The band also takes pride in their familial orientation. "We're a team," Dick insists. "Some bands are like, 'We just fired our guitar player.' We don't do that shit; we don't fire people. We're family - you get booted out!" Esperance concurs: "We get along better than most any other band in the world. If you were to hang out with us, you'd wonder what the hell was wrong with us. We're constantly laughing, then getting in arguments, telling each other to fuck off, then we're best friends again in the next minute. We can't really agree on a whole lot, except the music and the band. We're real different people, but P- Roach is where we come together. And come together they do, especially in a live setting. They're pretty goodat getting the audience to join together with the band: At any given show, the fans are onstage and airborne nearly as much as Papa Roach. The four piece has incited this mania over and over, headlining major clubs from San Francisco to Los Angeles, playing more than 400 shows since 1993. Despite such seasoning, Infest represents the beginning of this young band's journey. As the title track promises, these Roach's are "coming to infest." Those who prefer enlightenment to escapism will surely want to invest. "Pop music like Britney Spears is existence in the dark," Dick argues. "Its' candy. I don't want to escape reality - I want to go deeper into it." Bio (Part 2) In the small Northern California town of Vacaville, four high school friends, Jacoby Shaddix, Jerry Horton, Dave Buckner, and Will James, decided to start a band. In 1993, they became Papa Roach, a band whose influences included prominent Bay Area acts such as Faith No More and Primus. Papa Roach quickly rose to the top of the Vacaville music scene with their blending of hip-hop, groove-funk, and hardcore. After a couple of years of playing coffeehouses, pizza joints, and keg-parties, they were headlining such places as the Cactus Club in San Jose, the Cattle Club in Sacramento, and the Berkeley Square in Berkeley. Due to the antics of unpredictable Shaddix, and the raw power supplied by the band in live performances, Papa Roach captured the attention of younger audiences. In turn, kids showed their appreciation for the band by faithfully attending all the band's shows. In these early years, Papa Roach was able to support the Deftones on two shows, and have bands such as Incubus, Snot, Far, Human Waste Project, Downset and Fu Manchu open for them. In the summer of 1996, while realizing athat they had something special, Papa Roach decided to make changes necessary to reach the next level. First, the band replaced bass player Will James because his commitment to church summer camp that would have prevented the band from practicing and playing any shows over the summer. Papa Roach did not have to go far to find their new bass player. Tobin Esperance, who was only 16 years old and who had been a roadie for Papa Roach since age 13, readily became the new bass player. Second, the band hired a manager, Bret Bair, to help them with bookings, promotions, and merchandising. With a new bass player and management in place, Papa Roach decided to enter the studio to record a full-length CD. "Old Friends From Young Years" was recorded for at E.S.P. Studios in Pittsburg, California, and was subsequently released in February of 1997. The CD contains 13 tracks, including the songs "Orange Drive Palms", and "Liquid Diet". Without any push from the band or management, many smaller independent and college radio stations in Chico, Davis, San Jose, Sacramento, and the Bay Area added Papa Roach to their playlists. To the bands' surprise, Papa Roach charted number one as Cal-State Sacramento's most requested band for five consecutive weeks. Papa Roach celebrated the release of their first album with several CD release shows. The Vacaville CD release show was attended by 700 kids, while CD release shows in Berkeley and Sacramento were attended by 400 and 300 kids, respectively. Papa Roach's emerging popularity did not escape the eyes and ears of promoters, who started booking the band as a support act on many larger national shows. In March of 1997, Papa Roach played main support to Suicidal Tendencies in front of 1,000 people in Sacramento. They also either headlined or supported many of today's up and coming acts in the aggressive rock genre, including Incubus, Snot, Far, Human Waste Project, (hed) p.e., Sevendust, WIll Haven and Powerman 5000. Papa Roach has also played Southern California on a frequent basis, and is now becoming a regular at such reknowned clubs as the Troubador in Hollywood, and Soma in San Diego. In April 1998, Papa Roach released "5 Tracks Deep", and E.P. containing five songs which sold 1,000 copies within the first month after its release. This CD exemplifies the natural growth in musicianship and song-writing ability within band since "Old Friends From Young Years" was recorded 18 months earlier. The songs "Revenge in Japanese" is a perfect example of the Papa Roach trademark sound where hip-hop verses lead to a catchy radio-friendly chorus. This results in a song with both energy and emotion that will attract diverse crowds of people. (Bio From brokenh.com) |
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About Papa Roach Songs (From http://brokenh.com) As stated by Papa Roach singer-lyricist Coby Dick: "Infest": This song's promising that we will infest. We always start the live shows with it. The chorus is pretty much "We're going to infest/ We're getting in you head." We ask what's wrong with the world today, the government, the media, your family. If you look at the rest of the album, there's a song that has to do with the government, a song about how media affects people and a song about your family. So this one's a opening dialogue; it's meant to open your head up and see what's going on. "Last Resort": It's about contemplating suicide and feeling like you're all alone in your situation. I sing "Nothing's alright/ Nothing is fine." It's written about a guy I lived with. He's still alive, but he attempted suicide and thought that, in a way, he killed the person inside him that was messed up. Now he's a Jehovah's Witness and he's happy. I knew what was going on with him, and I was in the process of moving out, but I was trying to be there for him. When we play this at shows, kids come up to me who clearly connect very closely to it. "Broken Home": This is about divorce and being the kid caught in the middle, feeling it's your fault but finally realizing it isn't. "I know my mother loves me/ But does my father even care?" are some of the lyrics. I realize that in the end, his father did the same thing to him, so it's a repeating pattern. This was hard for me to write. I was working with a vocal coach and he had me sing it. With the band, I'm concentracting on getting it tight, but when I was with the vocal coach, halfway through the first verse, I fell out crying. All that was there were the words, and obviouisly, it still fucks with me. I was six when my parents got divorced. I didn't talk to my dad until two years ago. We've kinda made amends, but something like that doesn't really go away. Lyrically, P-Roach is my counseling. "Dead Cell": "Dead Cell" is about kids who are infected with the "dead cell" virus, people like the Columbine kids who shot up the school: "Born with no soul/ Lack of control." It's about the kids who do these crazy-ass, stupid things. Some kids are just fucked up. I have a center - I know what's right or wrong - but some kids are born "dead cells." Maybe they don't have a good family and they grow up on the Internet or playing video games, all the "shoot 'em up" stuff. But you can't point a finger at one thing; it's a combination of the family, the government, and the media. When I say, "Let me hear the dead cells shout" during a show, I'm mocking the fact that there's a lot of them out there. "Between Angels and Insects": We wrote this in Los Angeles; we were the insects in the City of Angels. We realized that for a lot of people in Hollywood, it's all about money - your possessions and status. Where we're from in Northern California [Vacaville], that matters, but it's not the focus. We're saying in L.A., "The things you own own you." People are doing their daily grind for all these credit card bills. We're asking, if you took away all the money, what really makes you happy? I wrote this to teach myself a lesson. People get caught up in the glitz and glamour and start thinking their shit don't stink. They don't realize that life is about being a good person. I've been reading Tao, and that comes into play in this song. "Legacy"¹: I used to listen to [talk to radio personality] Art Bell a lot. He talks about conspiracy theories and all that crazy stuff. This song is my paranoia about government being corrupt; it's the eye in the sky always watching you. The U.S. government has a thumb on people, and "Legacy" is about transcending that, not really giving a fuck about it. I'm controlled just like everyone else, but in my personal beliefs - what really matters to me - I'm not. The title refers to the legacy of brutality, how government control is always going to happen; it's always going to get handed down. "Blood Brothers": "Blood Brothers" and "Never Enough" were also written in L.A. I'll put a disclaimer on this song: Don't be a weak-minded bitch - just because I say "Kill, kill, kill" doesn't mean you should do that! If anyone thinks this is about The Bloods or The Crips, they're stupid - it's not. The chorus is reflecting on people who don't stay tight, people who turn on each other. As a band, especially, we need to stay tight because there are a lot of people who are out to get you, to take advantage of you and exploit you. I need to stay free from corruption of the music industry. I feel my music is part of my body and that some people involved in it are "the salesmen of my blood." This is a reminder to myself to be a good person because I'm not really a good person all the time. "Revenge": This is a sequel to a song we wrote called "Liquid Diet," which is on Old Friends From Young Years. "Liquid Diet" is about spousal abuse. At the end of the song, I say, "She should pack her bags and leave." In this one, revenge comes into play; it's about the woman beating her husband's ass with a baseball bat and putting him in the hospital. When she says "It's alright, we're in love," she's showing a dual nature: She feels guilt, but there's also a voice in her head - which is the DJ scratch - saying "Don't stop now," like, "Go finish it." So she shoots him, puts him out. Then the music flips and she turns into this Godzilla kind of monster, pillaging and fucked up shit, almost comic book style. At the end, the DJ comes in again and there's a gunshot - the woman kills herself. Having the DJ from [the band] Crazytown drop by while we were recording was fate: He had that "don't stop now" sample, and I knew it was the voice in her head. "Revenge" is totally made up, though I know this crazy shit happens. "Snakes": It's about two-faced people who stab you in the back. I'm saying to them, "Fuck you - I'll turn it around on you." In the situation I experienced, I didn't turn around on them. But in the lyrics, I say, "Do you like how it feels to be stabbed in the back/ And watch the blood spill?" I'm sure everyone has dealt with people like this. "Never Enough": I realized that being happy doesn't make me happy - I need chaos. I ask in the song, "Do I deserve what I got?" and I do ask myself that. I felt like I was running in a circle when I was writing this. "Somebody put me out of my misery" of being happy is what I'm saying, realizing that everything is never enough. For me I need calm and chaos to be happy. "Binge": "Binge" is about being drunk - "All I need is a bottle." I went through a period when I was drinking all day every day. My friends were like, "What's up?" and I was "fuck you" to everyone. I've come back from that, though I still party like a savage. I've been around a lot of people who sniff drugs, and I know a lot of people who have gone down from that shit. I've always avoided it. But I have an addictive personality, so you need to keep yourself in check. The chorus of "Binge" goes, "She say, 'Behave little boy'" - that's my lady putting me in check. "Thrown Away": It's about my little brother and me. We're both ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] kids. When I get on a rage, I go crazy. "I am a mess/ I've made a huge mess / I can't control myself/ I'm losing it/ I've lost it/ I've spilt my marbles" - those lyrics sum it up. I'll bottle stuff up, and everything that's been bugging me comes out in an explosion. Now, being in this band and playing shows, I just get to go off, let all my energy go. I'm less of a shifty person now because of it; the dopamine gets released. "Thrown Away" refers to throw me away - let's expel this part of me. Yet that side also drives me a lot. "Tightrope": This used to be more of a punk song. Our producer asked us for a song we could do something crazy with. So Tobin just started playing it with a raggae-style bass line and Dave joined in and Jerry dropped some delay and Police-style guitar shifts. Doing this blew our minds because we'd never written anything like it. It's a great song but not typical of us. We might break it out in a headlining set, but it's technically a hidden track. "Legacy": This song is exclusive to the "clean" version of Infest; the song "Blood Brothers" is exclusive to the "parental advisory" version. "Tightrope": This is the hidden track. It's starts at 04:57 on track 11 of Infest. Click Here To Go To BrokenH.com |
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