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GUEST CHECK
Grunge / Alternative / Punk
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BLOCK USER
LAST LOG-IN: 02/21/09 |
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I WISH I WAS AS ALTERNATIVE AS YOU
Detroit Suburbs,MI
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Thanks for Rocking!
HOORAY FOR SUBURB DORK ROCK!Formed in the early 1990s, this trio of grunge musicians tackle a forgotten sound brilliantly. Guest Check's music is best described as early 1990's grunge, but has been embraced by the younger generation of today as being the missing ingredient of current rock & roll. A moody subterranean bass accompanied by a torrid and gravelly guitar join together and are completed by scrappy and deliberate drums to create a raunch essence.
Lost in the ground-up mix of emo, psuedo-punk, and post-modern metal, GUEST CHECK has finally risen from the ashes to confront the world with their long awaited self-titled debut CD, originally recorded in 1994. When playing their CD expect nothing other than the finest brewed dirt rock. You will savor Guest Check!
CD Now Available!
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Attention Labels and Distributors:
Guest Check currently not under contractual obligation and is looking for parties interested in handling the distribution of their cd.
CD AVAILABLE AT
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| May Shai Hulud clear the path before you all! |
| Apr 9, 2007 |
| It appears that Guest Check has managed to retain first place on Detroitcity.com for the bulk of today. This is, of course, thanks to all of the people who came over from crackspace and have shown their support. Detroit is filled with amazing talent and this site is just beginning to gather a sliver of it. I look forward to watching Detroitcity.com grow out of control.
We hope to continue to be a presense in the hearts and ears of many a passionate music lover.
Our music shall remain open for your downloading pleasure for the time being. Dig it.
~Thanks for Rocking~
-patrick |
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| Guest Check Bio part 1 |
Ryan Coleman-Drums/attitude
Patrick Motschenbacher- Vocals/Guitars
Steve Holeton- Bass/vocals
Guest Check is a band that arose out of the ashes of several other short-lived bands. A. Ryan Coleman and Patrick Motschenbacher met in 1987 during their middle-school years. They spent their first year or so as friends skateboarding and listening to loud punk rock. Their first musical partnership could be best described as Orchestra class shenanigans. Ryan played violin and Patrick played viola. They never excelled in their formal music studies mainly because of Ryan's numerous visits to the principal's office and Patrick general lack of interest. During this period the two spent many afternoons recording volumes of silly and crude songs on cassette tape. Coleman dubbed the collection, "Skeletons in the Bathroom". Their instruments were an old acoustic guitar, books (as drums), and a small Casio synthesizer. The %u2018music' they made reflected their adolescent understanding of sex, life and of course music. It was 1990 when they decided to form an actual band with electric instruments and real drums. They were in their early teens and just learning how to use their instruments. Ryan played guitar, Patrick sang, their friend, Matt fisher played drums and friend, Brandon Rosen played bass. They were Acid Lollipop. The music was raw, awkward and punk as fuck. The band played their one and only show on July 10th 1991 at a Detroit punk bar called "Blondie's". Patrick was still not playing guitar for the band. A second guitar by their friend Matt Hilts accompanied Ryan. They disbanded after a blow out when their current drummer, Kevin, forced bassist, Brandon to drink antifreeze during a dispute. They got back together temporarily with former drummer, Matt Fisher to form Ox. Brandon Rosen was replaced with bassist, Steve Holeton. Fisher soon left the band again and was replaced by Robin Derminer whose father was Rob Tyner from the legendary Detroit rock band MC5. MC5 is known to be an influence on such bands as Mudhoney and The Cult. Patrick and Ryan's relationship with Robin led to many interesting nights where they met people from the old Detroit rock scene. This was the beginning of their career as performers.At this point, Patrick had begun to sing and play second guitar, Ryan continued playing lead guitar. Bassist, Steve Holeton who was approached by Patrick in high school, made an essential addition to the band. Though they were in the same grade and shared a class, they never knew each other before playing together in Ox. Steve's different musical tastes added a solid balance to the sound they were creating. Steve enjoyed the more metal side of rock and roll where Patrick and Ryan were, at the time, more interested in the punk sound and a new sound that was slowly making its way into local record stores, grunge. Patrick was initially very opposed to this new %u2018phase in punk'. Ryan presented new bands to him like, Jane's Addiction and Mudhoney and eventually they found that the music that they were making was slowly becoming more driven and flowing than their previous attempts at punk. Some songs were played partially without distortion and the constant screaming Patrick wailed out mellowed occasionally to allow some notes of harmony to prevail. Still learning how to manipulate their instruments Patrick, Ryan, and Steve played with Robin for a handful of shows before Robin decided to leave the band to pursue his career in television production. |
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| Guest check Bio part 2 |
| The experience of performing with Derminer had planted a seed in the remaining members of Ox and it did not lay dormant long. The trio had tried out a few drummers, one of which left a drum set in Patrick's basement after his tryout which he never came back to claim. The banged out old sparkle-blue 4-piece was effectively, musical refuse, but fit the trio's bill perfectly. They had taken a liking to old crappy instruments, clothes and cars (At the time Ryan drove his friends around in a big 1975 Ford Granada and every time his lack of driving experience ran him into a park car or caused him to scrap the car's sides down with a cement drive-thru guard pole, he would proudly exclaim that another %u2018modification' had been made.). Ryan put his guitar down to take the reigns at drums after trying out one too many drummers who simply did not work out. Guest Check was formed and their name was decided one late night while sitting in a Royal Oak diner called, "The Lantern".
Guest Check played their first show in January of 1993. Ryan was living with Patrick at his mother's house as he finished his senior year of high school in Berkley, Michigan so naturally their first show was in the Berkley high school gymnasium. By this time Guest Check had a smattering of new songs or at least parts of new songs that had a completely new feel to them. More experience playing with each other had brought a sense of solidarity to their sound. For their first performance they invited a couple members of the audience to the microphone to sing for a couple different songs. To make the occasion a memorable one, Guest Check decided to add a few details to their performance which led to their being unplugged, but only after they had refused to stop playing their instruments and had gone well past the half hour that had been allotted to them. Immediately after being unplugged, Patrick and guest singer Joshua Shafkind made a spectacle of themselves by rolling around the gymnasium floor together and exchanging tongue kisses. This was the first of many attempts to draw public attention to Guest Check during the uninvited wave of 90's alternative music. It worked and soon, students from other schools in the area were arranging for the band to perform at their activities. The events at Berkley High School can be seen on the Guest Check Documentary DVD from King w/out a Crown Records.
After the three finished high school, Ryan and Patrick moved into a house where they set up their practice space in the basement. Guest Check was never a %u2018garage band' and is pleased to say so. Steve continued playing in Guest Check and maintained a meaningful friendship with the two. Guest Check performed sporadically at various local venues and recorded a demo in May and July of 1994. Patrick continued with his spontaneous antics that created an air of suspense at their shows. The antics such as throwing up on stage while playing his guitar flawlessly in the process continued. The last %u2018stunt' was when he threw his guitar down onto his effects pedals during in a temper tantrum about faulty equipment. These acts were ostensibly deliberate though, in retrospect, most of them were spur of the moment if not blatant foul ups. All in all, Guest Check was proud of their adherence to the grunge style of music and attitude. They performed well under pressure and enjoyed pleasing their small following.
In early 1995 the music scene in general had taken a turn for the worse. The grunge ideal had been twisted into yet another corporate venture for the %u2018haves' to take more from the %u2018have-nots'. The bands being tagged as grunge were over-polished, tepid, unremarkable, and better classified as shirtless cock-rock. Guest Check found itself virtually alone in a scene that was slowly changing and not into something that they felt had any value or substance. With Patrick's mother being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and because of some other complications unrelated to the band, Guest Check informally disbanded. No hard feelings were ever shared between the three, but life and the music they loved had seemed to change drastically. They never decided to break up. It was only after life's tidal wave had cleared that Ryan and Patrick had realized that Guest Check was gone and Steve had moved on to play in other acts and pursue his education in mechanical engineering
With the attention Guest Check has been receiving since the onset of widespread Internet access, they have decided to release their CD. The first pressing of the CD included only 30 copies for family and friends. After receiving an abundance of requests for CDs they decided to repress the CD in large quantities making it available to anyone who enjoys a sound that was once vibrantly alive and rampant in the minds of young people. A sound that seemed to be forgotten and swallowed by the ever-consuming money machine.
Guest Check plans to record more songs and is currently looking for ways to put their act together and support themselves while doing so. Looking back, Guest Check has discovered that they have enough material for an entirely new album, not including new material that has been collaborated on over the past few years. They look forward to bringing back a sound that once mattered and plan to do it in such a way that will bring people together to celebrate true freedom and self-expression.
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