Headroom
"A cross between Parliament/Funkadelic and Soundgarden with Green Day vocals and Kiss lead guitar, Head Room indeed brings the bang! Accomplished musicians with an undeniable penchant for super-tight arrangements . . ." is what one reviewer in
Columbus Ohio, home of Headroom, had to say.
The story of Headroom begins in 1992 when Andy Sartain was in a band that was audtioning bass players.
Andy asked Karl Gunther (a premier bass player and teacher) if he had any promising students. Karl reccomended (among others) Mike Collier. Mike was 17 at the time, too young to play in clubs,
and there seemed to be a bit of a generation gap, so, although he was obviously an awesomely talented player, nothing further came of it. Fast forwarding to 1999, Andy was once again searching for a bass player and happened to notice, in a pile of cassettes, one marked "Mike Collier." It was a tape of the original jam session; Andy listened to it and decided he had to hear what that guy was doing after 7 years. It turned out Mike had been a beatnik for a couple of years and had just returned to settle back down in Columbus. He was between bands, so Mike and Andy got together and jammed again. Two months later there were 12 new songs, and they and their first drummer played their first show at at Little Brothers.
Mike and Andy, first as "Spin Cycle," then "Toy God Harold" burned through a few drummers for the next few years (the spontaneously combusting drummer problem proved to be very frustrating) until they met Doug Mong in the summer of 2004. Finally, here was a drummer who always seemed to play something appropriate, someone who understood that most people go to hear a band, not a collection of musicians.
Headroom was born. Since then, Mike, Doug and Andy have been honing their stage skills, writing songs
and trying to figure out how to get clubs to give them reasonable gigs and how to get people to come to those gigs. A new cd project is underway (a couple of songs recorded), but it will probably proceed at a leisurely pace as funding is rather limited. Also there are several brand new songs that are just now leaning to crawl.
Check out the Headroom site for more songs
and pics: www.headroomontheweb.com
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