two of us are real skinny. one's kinda chubby and another's fairly well-built with tattoos. some smoke pot. some do yoga. some play golf. some fish. some practice all day long. none of our parents are divorced. one of us has a masters in classical guitar. we like our lives for the most part. sometimes we go though periods of depression, but most of the time we keep our heads up. we get along pretty well for a band that's been together for 7 years. been independent since day one. have a pretty extensive catalogue of tunes. some suck, some are really good. we see our lives and music as one in the same. it for us is a way of life. a way to remain connected to the world around us and keep us from going insane. we live relatively good lives and are honest, hardworking, midwestern boys who are in music because we truly love and need it.
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Grasshopper Takeover Biography
"It came to me in a vision," says the aptly green-haired lead singer/guitarist Curtis Grubb of Grasshopper Takeover when asked how the name of the electrifying pop-rock trio came to be. After a near-fatal accident while hunting pheasant on the expansive plains of his home state of Nebraska, Grubb says, "I just lay there with this insane ringing in my ears, afraid to open my eyes, thinking I would just see whiteness. When I finally opened my eyes, the entire sky was filled with a swarming, amorphous blackness, and then I lost consciousness. The only thing I remember thinking was that grasshoppers had taken over."
Add Bob Boyce shredding the skins, and the smooth mastery of his instrument by bassist James McMann, and the Nebraska-native three-piece rock trio has definitely taken over the underground unsigned music scene across the country and show no signs of letting up.
In 1995, Grubb and Boyce could be found playing any number of clubs and bars scattered throughout the Midwest as part of The Kind, the granola darlings of the hippie-funk gamut from Chicago to Denver. When the band called it quits a year later fans felt rejected and let their disappointment be known. Grubb and Boyce stuck together and laid low for some months writing and rocking until they were introduced to McMann, arguably the best amateur bassist in the nation and "a cross between Flea and James Dean" who completed the trio.
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