User:B-Zides

Hi, I was born November 22,1981 in St.Louis,Missouri. I am a musician that plays in the group L84DNR. My stage name is B-Sides. Which also has music in the works for upcoming releases and shows and merchandise. The first band I was in was called The Rock'n'Roll Mafia Cult. Louis Keith Bowman aka Boner fronted this band. The idea of this band was lots of people around us played music, so we wanted to include as many talents as we could to just write good songs. This band disbanded when Boner died in a car accident when his vehicle lost control as he tried to evade the law for driving to fast. We did however get one song played on the St.Louis's radio station 105.7 The Point, but only once because so many people blew up the phone lines. No albums were ever released, but I can still play those song we wrote back in 1998. I later played with a different few people, filled spots here or there, just fell into all night partying and the neon life style. Sex ,Drugs, and Music. My next official band was called Decibal. It never even lasted long enough to even really play any shows. Again tragedy struck with another car accident which this time took drummer and former Marine, Josh Beneky. This band was fronted by my friend Vic Malgrem. It was quite some time before I got into another band, but I did continue to play, but never professionally, just as a hobby and passion for myself. I was caught up in the festival scene, with camping and lights and music all night. Raves happened alot more when I was still in these young day, electronic music and hippie music and metal and hip hop was what I was into. Not really mainstream stuff. I later created a band called Modern Counter-Culture, which disbanded before any official recordings because I lost respect for and friendship the other players. I always felt friendship and camaraderie were key ingredients to being in a band and making music together. Working together is alot harder than making your own, you must be able to communicate and compromise and also respect one another ideas. It's not about changing someone else's vision, it about understanding and trying to expand idea, in a sort of shared passion. It's really hard because people always tend to want to take your idea and make it there's and change it rather than to explore and develop. Modern Counter-Culture did play a few shows,but fell apart quickly. In 2016 my friends band played a house party show with a few others New Year's Eve. I'd been friends with some of the members for awhile. The line up changed some during the next few times I went to their shows. When a spot for keyboardist opened up, I jumped at the opportunity to play with friends in a band making tunes I enjoyed. I joined L84DNR in 2017 and in less than a year we went to Native Sounds Recording in the south side of St.Louis. This was the weekend of the total clipse in August. We went back again and recorded constantly in the basement of Gabe's.(Gabe Corcoran, L84DNR) We did sometimes play my house, too. We played some bars and party's and such. We lost our bassist Ryan J. Garner in 2018, and got the album release by his birthday Dec. 29., Though the official release date was Dec. 25th. L84DNR-Got It Made