Time off

Thanks for all of your continued support of A.O. We are gonna take some time off this month and get geared up for December. So get ready and see what's goin' on with us in the next few weeks. We even have some BIG changes possibly in the making. So stay tuned and stay in touch.

Halloween Show at Bella's

Thanks to all who came out to Bella's to show A.O. some love!

Martinsville...

Martinsville has been good to A.O. the past few months and next week is sure to be no exception. We will be playing at Sportlanes in Collinsville next Saturday November 6. Show starts at 9 p.m. Ladies in free til 10.

Band Profile: Kevin Chinault

Here is the last of our band profiles. Kevin is a man of few words and he gets straight to the point.
"I've been playing for about three years. My favorite era of music would have to be late sixties early seventies. I like pocket driven, Jamin music."

Band Profile: John Rardin

"Throughout my life, my musical influences have varied a lot from adolescence to adulthood. Growing up, I was heavily influenced by the classic rock like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin that my parents listened to. Later when my older brother was in high school I started hearing more hard rock and metal blasting from his room. By 4th grade I started to discover alternative bands like The Smashing Pumpkins and Silverchair. I thought myself saxophone in 5th grade but eventually switched to classical guitar in middle school. For a brief period, I was really into Hardcore and Punk until (strangely), classical guitar became my life. 

In high school I continued to study classical guitar and began to play electric guitar in jazz band. I also started playing bass in the band The Venus Trasnit where I learned to vibe with other musicians and think outside the box. As a senior I auditioned for Radford University's classical guitar program and received a scholarship. For the next two years I lived and breathed guitar until I had an unfortunate accident, which broke my left collarbone. After months with my arm in a sling I was finally able to play guitar again and everything that I was taught suddenly clicked; and I finally understood the instrument. 

Today I manage a little music shop called the Music Doctors in Blacksburg, VA where I get to play a variety of instruments, talk to musicians and read books all day everyday.

Presently I have many different influences for each style (there’s so many!)

Electric guitar (rock)- S.R.V., John Mayer, David Gilmore, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson
Electric guitar (jazz)- Stanley Jordan, Pat Metheny
Acoustic guitar- Don Ross, John Mayer, Andy McKee
Classical guitar- Andrew York, Bach, Barrios, Villa-Lobos
Bass guitar- Victor Wooden, Gary Shea

Bands that have influenced me:
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pink Floyd
The Mars Volta
Apartment 26
Minus the Bear
Thrice
Pulse Ultra
Emery
Dave Matthew's Band 
The Foo Fighters
Led Zeppelin
Mae
Soulive
Circa Survive

Band Profile: Bradley Steele

"I sing and play guitar for Aside Oceans. Been performing for around 11 years now. I have toured almost the entire east coast and some mid west. I have been singing for this lineup in AO for almost 3 years, and I can assure you we aint finished yet:) First and foremost.. I would have to say  Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Billy Corgan are my favorite rock n roll musicians of all time. Just because I am and forever will be a 90s kid lol. My favorite styles of music are 90s alternative and grunge, the blues, and classic rock. Nirvana, the Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and the Deftones are my top 90s bands. If you found me rocking the Blues you would hear some Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howling Wolf, Buddy Guy, THE ROLLING STONES!, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, and John Mayer, My classic rock side holds my favorite band THE ROLLING STONES! Mic Jagger is my favorite artist hands down.. He is the definition of a rocknroll frontman. I also like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Tom Petty. I have many many more, but we would be here all day lol. I'll leave you with this quote by Jimi Hendrix:) ""With the music we will draw pictures of earth and sand. So the listener might be taken somewhere"
God Save RocknRoll!"

Aside Oceans T-Shirt Contest

Many of you over the past several months have bought A.O. shirts and CDs and we are extremely grateful for you support. Because of your overwhelming support we are currently sold out of every shirt we had. We want to get you, our loyal fans, in on the action. Beginning soon, real soon, we will be asking you, our fans, to get involved and help us out. We know we have some fans that are true artists. What we want to do is take the following t-shirt template and mark it up with  your own original Aside Oceans t-shirt design. That's right boys and girls, we want YOU to design our next shirt. So get creative and put your minds to work. The shirt that we think is the best overall design will be the next shirt we send out for production. The winner will also receive a free shirt with his/her design on it. Turn in your design ideas at any A.O. show or email them to asideoceansmusic@yahoo.com. So let's get to it. 'Til next time...ROCK ON!!! \,,/