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UPDATE: 07/30/2005
Wow, there have been quite a few hits on this website
in the past few months (200 hits in the past month alone, which is impressive
for a band that doesn't exist anymore). I thought it would be good to
update the code, clean it up a bit, and do some updates on what the
band is doing now.
NEW
RELEASE!
JumpStart
Records has released a " CD called "Discography"
- no self-respecting Readymen fan should be without it - it contains
every song they recordd before the Restless CD, and has tracks from
the completely unavaliable Chitz Split and Factory 7", as well
as the Show Hall Bound CD. Go
to their website and order it, get a T-Shirt while you're there,
and other stuff.
ABOUT THE READYMEN
For 5 years or so, The Readymen were one of Oregon's
strongest and best Punk-Ska bands, going on nationwide tours and gaining
fans across the country. Just when it seemed they were about to really
get big, it came to a stop. It was a good run, but all things must end
eventually.
Dustin was always the lead vocalist, Solomon was the original bassist.
They took Brendan on as their lead guitarist, and eventually J.P. joined
the ranks as their drummer. In this form, they went for several years,
cranking out a demo tape, a split LP with a band called The Chitz, a
CD (Show Hall Bound) and a 3 song 7" called Factory.
Shortly after the Factory 7" was finished, the band was thrown
into turmoil. Solomon - one of the founding members of the band - decided
to leave. As far as I understand it, he just decided that he didn't
want to devote as much time as was necessary to the band. He had other
things planned in his life, and had been offered a good job testing
video games, and he took it.
It was almost certain that the band was going to break up at this point,
when J.P.'s brother, Alex, jumped in to fill Solomon's sizeable shoes.
The Factory 7" was released, and the band continued on.
They released one CD with Alex on bass (Restless), and signed with
a new label (having had problems with their previous label). Unfortunately,
their label problems continued, and their final tour was largely unsupported
by the label - they found themselves without merchandise to sell on
the road, which is really how bands support themselves on tour (ticket
prices really don't cover much).
The nightmarish tour over, they decided to take a vacation from the
band, and everyone went their seperate ways... And never really came
back. The band had been through a lot, and although they had a growing
fan-base, it was difficult to continue without label support, and the
stresses of day-to-day band life eventually took its toll.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Last I heard, Dustin was in New York
City. I don't know what he's doing these days, I'll update this as soon
as I have more information.
Brendan and J.P. are
currently playing in the Brooklyn, NY band The Stockyard Stoics
- they've toured the U.S. and Europe, and have a tour of South America
lined up as of this writing.
Alex is teaching - I'll get more specific
soon.
Solomon's whereabouts are unknown,
hopefully he's happy wherever he is and whatever he's doing.
The Eugene Register Guard
interviewed The Readymen in an article published 7/3/98. The article
talks a bit about the band. To check it out, click Here.
Rock and Roll R.I.P. webzine did a great interview
with three out of four Readymen, to read it, click Here.
Bands and people across the country helped them out
on their last tour - To check out the thank you list in progress, click
here.
Their currently avaliable CD is the newly released Discography,
avaliable from JumpStart
Records.. They've also got some stuff on a bunch of comps. To hear
a few songs (in MP3 format) or find out more about their recordings
and band history in general, click here.
I now have lyrics up for every album The Readymen
have released so far, even the impossible to get ones. To check out
the lyrics and see what the band is writing about, click
here.
I took a lot of pictures at the final Eugene Readymen
show, at John Henry's on July 31st, 1998, and I finally got them uploaded.
To see them and other pictures of the Readymen performing live, click
here. And if you happen to have any pictures of the Readymen, I'd
sure love to get copies.
To visit some other cool pages that deal with punk and/or
ska, click here. There are even some other Readymen
pages to check out!
The guestbook is finally working! Unfortunately, I've
given up on trying to make a CGI guestbook and gone ahead and used a
Guestworld guestbook. It was just the only way there was gonna be a
guestbook on this page.
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