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Optima is Optima is the heavy rock band originaly formed by Jonah Ragsdale and Kyler Simkins. Established in 2008, the band has already written two full albumns and started recording the first albumn. The band is made up of Zach Williams, lead guitarist, Jonah Ragsdale, drummer, Caleb Miller, bassist, and Kyler Simkins, rythm guitarist. The band is working on playing live for the summer 2010 and finishing recording.

The Story The band, established on March 31st, 2008, was just an idea in Jonah Ragsdale's head. Former drummer, Matt Bowsher, had introduced Jonah to rock n' roll and Jonah had been hooked ever since. Jonah was at Kyler's house drinking Pepsi and Lousianna Hot Sauce playing Guitar Hero when Jonah randomly said "Let's make a band." It was about 1:30 in the morning so both were hyper and hallucinating and didn't hesitate to agree. Kyler had no recent musical background but Jonah grew up in an all musical household and knew how to play most common instruments. The first problem was finding a name. Kyler suggested "Three Days Journey" and since neither knew anything about making a band the name was decided. The second problem was other band memebers. Kyler said he was going to buy a guitar and take guitar lessons so he was decided. Jonah had never played guitar before but decided to pick one up when he got home. The two then went to their two other best friends who coincidentaily were a bass player and a drummer. Caleb Miller and Matt Bowsher were consulted and agreed to join. For the first year, noth much happened in the band. Jonah wrote all the songs while the others just tagged along with the name. After about a year, Jonah's guitar playing got more intense. As his love for music grew so did his knowledge. He soon begain writing more complicated songs. He then decided that he couldn't settle with the cheap acoustic. Jonah saved birthday and Christmas money to buy an Epiphone Les Paul. With a Les Paul and Kyler's Fender Stratocaster the band was starting to come together in more proffesional manner. Even though the band had never played together for the first two years, about mid-Febuary 2009 the first albumn was done. The band had written 10 complete songs. After taking a short break the band decided to work on a second albumn. During the duration of the second albumn not much was happening at all. That is until God turned on the light for IMPACT (which was the new name of the band). The band was sitting in class one day when Caleb was looking through fonts. Yes fonts. Caleb came upon a font called Optima. Calleb turned to Jonah and Matt and said "Hey this looks like a cool name for the band." The one problem for the band was finding a cool name they could agree upon. Optima was the answer. Exciting events soon followed. Jonah got recording software for his computer so the band started recording. The band then started talking about playing live. After recording singles such as "Dr. Rock" and "Ready to Rock" the band knew it was time to start practicing. About mid April Jonah decided to get a practice going at his local church. The band members showed up and quickly put together the songs they had recorded. The band is preparing to headline in mid july 2010. In early June a problem came about in the band. Drummer Matt Bowsher went to Cancun and was breaking band rules. The band unimously voted to say goodbye to the drummer. The band quickly had options. Jonah had been friends with guitar player Zach Williams. The only probablem was he lived in Kansas City. Then Zach came to Monett and the band let him in and moved jonah to drums. This change accualy worked out better for the band. The band is currently practicing with the new change to play in the summer.