User:Alegendofchins/Seven Ate Nine

Seven Ate Nine is a rock band from Tulare, California. They consist of Matias Mora (Vocals/Guitar), Riley Rietzel (Bass), Robert Fraga III (Drums) and Jason Siders (Guitar). They can often be seen touring Southern California and all throughout the San Joaquin Valley. This band with humble, small town beginnings has rapidly increased their fame with their most recent summer tour and sneek peaks at their new album Words in My Defense.

The bands original members were middle schoolers Matias Mora (Vocals/Guitar), Riley Rietzel (Bass), and Jacob Cordinez (Drums). Formerly known as The Upstairs, Seven Ate Nine started out with few resources, including recording in Matias Mora's garage. In 2006, drummer Jacob Cordinez quit The Upstairs, leaving the band without a percussionist and setting the bar high for a replacement. Matias was "desperate" to find a new drummer, so he taught Robert Fraga III. Rob quickly caught up to Matias and then passed him. He joined the band as the new drummer right before the band set off to record their first album. The trio was complete, but Matias felt like having another guitarist to aid him. Soon before their album was released, Curtis Humphrey became their unofficial roadie guitarist.

It's Hard to Draw Humanity With Stick Figures released in September of 2007. After the release, the band took on a plethera of shows. Matias became fed up with Curtis' guitar style, and replaced him with Jason Siders in December of 2007. The band has not had a line-up change since. The bands first gig out of the valley was at a youth retreat in Big Bear in February of 2008. For this mini-tour Devin Rector played bass. This was also Seven Ate Nine's first real experimentation with stage antics. In May of 2008, Seven Ate Nine put on a benifit concert called Inside Outside. The show consisted of Robert Fraga III's side project Skies of Arcadia, Allison Wonderland (now Almry), and Hilltop Legends. The event took place at Sunrise Community Church. The band went about half and half between Devin and Riley on bass, and even featured a song with Curtis. The turnout stunned everyone. The bands popularity was increasing exponentially.

In September of 2008, the band played another gig at Sunrise, this time with See You Soon, and Avery Parkway (side project of Confide's drummer Joel Piper). It was soon announced that The Upstairs was changing their name to Seven Ate Nine. The band has been recording for their new album ever since. "I want to do it better." said Matias. His dissatisfaction with their last record has driven him to make this album live up to the hyphe everyone is making it out to be.

The band most often can be seen playing in Visalia at Café 210, All Pro Pizza, or even Adventure Park. In February 2009, they even opened an acoustic show for former Newsboys guitarist Paul Colman. During the summer of 2009, Seven Ate Nine played their first official tour which lasted nearly two weeks. They started out with an acoustic show at Starbucks, and ended with a bang in Bakersfield. The bassist for this tour was Robert Melendez. The band played their most recent show outside of Borders in Visalia.

The band is still going, but with Matias going to college in Los Angeles, production on the album has slowed way down. However, the band promises to have Words in My Defense out ASAP.