The full history of the band is as follows: There was this guy named Dave that messed around on a Squier P-Bass. Yeah, it was that sweet of a bass guitar. He got bored playing bass by himself. He started experimenting with a drum machine program on the PC and tried to make a self-recorded song. It turned out that Dave didn’t know much about drumming. He asked his friend and drummer Daniel, who at the time lived on the other side of the state of California (Dave was in Santa Clara, CA and Daniel was in Orange, CA) to make up some beats for him on the drum machine program and send them to him over the internet. Postal Service who? Dave arranged the beats into a song, then added bass guitar with various effects from his distortion/overdrive guitar pedal, his bass chorus pedal, and his pass wah-wah pedal. Just one problem: Dave can’t sing or write respectable lyrics. Solution? Don’t have any. And this is how 12 O’Clock on a Subway was born in October of 2005. Surprisingly, a decent number of people decided they liked the instrumental music of 12 on their official MySpace website located at http://www.myspace.com/12oclockonasubway. Surprisingly a decent number of people have also offered to sing for 12, but that hasn’t panned out, now has it? Five months after their formation, the duo finished recording enough songs for what could be considered a full length album, and gave it away for free on the internet because they’re that cool. They also covered a Bloc Party song, “Helicopter,” because Death From Above 1979 covered Bloc Party’s “Luno” and 12 pretty much owes DFA their fan base, so why not cover Bloc Party too? With a purposely pretentious band name and song titles (its funny to act like you’re deep or enlightened), 12 (its a lot shorter to say the band name that way) is sure to break through on the Billboard Top 100 any day now… On January 31, 2006, 12 O’Clock on a Subway released the long awaited and highly anticipated full length album titled “Axon Terminal Subversion.” In the summer of 2006, 12 recorded and released one more single inspired by Chuck Norris titled “A Shadow in the Night.” Currently 12 is enjoying rumors that they will play the infamous Coachella music festival every year and are examining their future musical options. |
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