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Dear and the Headlights were an Indie-Rock band from Tempe/Chandler, Arizona.
Joel Marquard (guitarist and keyboardist) and Ian Metzger (lead vocals and acoustic) started playing together in roughly 2002. Marquard convinced Metzger that they needed to start a band, but Ian was reluctant due to a somewhat negative experience with the Christian band called Justifide he co-founded in 1999. He finally gave in and Marquard quickly found PJ Waxman, who initially, started out playing drums for the band until they realized what a talented guitar player he was. PJ is also known for voicing the character of “Plucky”, which is Ducky’s little sister in the animated film “The Land Before Time”, though it didn’t make it into the film officially. Despite the film’s success, PJ felt his calling was in music. Once PJ took the role of guitarist, DATH were still left without a drummer and bass player. They tried out several people but nothing worked. Joel received a phone call from an old friend and former band mate named Chuckie Duff who played bass and had recently bought some recording equipment that he wanted to try out. So that next day he came over and recorded three songs (Sweet Talk, Daysleeper, Run in the Front.) The songs were successful but Ian was burnt out on trying to find people for the band, and determined to move to California.
Joel Marquard (guitarist and keyboardist) and Ian Metzger (lead vocals and acoustic) started playing together in roughly 2002. Marquard convinced Metzger that they needed to start a band, but Ian was reluctant due to a somewhat negative experience with the Christian band called Justifide he co-founded in 1999. He finally gave in and Marquard quickly found PJ Waxman, who initially, started out playing drums for the band until they realized what a talented guitar player he was. PJ is also known for voicing the character of “Plucky”, which is Ducky’s little sister in the animated film “The Land Before Time”, though it didn’t make it into the film officially. Despite the film’s success, PJ felt his calling was in music. Once PJ took the role of guitarist, DATH were still left without a drummer and bass player. They tried out several people but nothing worked. Joel received a phone call from an old friend and former band mate named Chuckie Duff who played bass and had recently bought some recording equipment that he wanted to try out. So that next day he came over and recorded three songs (Sweet Talk, Daysleeper, Run in the Front.) The songs were successful but Ian was burnt out on trying to find people for the band, and determined to move to California.
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legavin wrote:
a blaspheme band
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gowhiterice wrote:
Strange question, are/were they a "christian" band?
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lagginswag wrote:
i was one of their houses/ practice space and didnt realize it. jammed on the organ piano thing. it was awesome lol.
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aNTi_mAtTeR wrote:
ian is such an amazing lyricist i hope he keeps doing it.
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newyorkoneday wrote:
This band, man.
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__hellohannah wrote:
I'm so gutted. I was listening to them today and I was thinking "I literally can't wait to hear some new stuff", came on here to post and literally just found out about the split by reading the shoutbox. SO GUTTED! Loved these guys so much <3 Hope they do some awesome stuff seperately in the future.
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MyHeadOnAPlate wrote:
Yeah, I did see all of the material available on their website which was cool but I'm upset with the letter. If they're frustrated with the "vicious cycle" of the music industry why don't they ignore it and keep creating the music they want to, the way they want to? Theres obviously an audience for their material.
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withpassion wrote:
I will listen to small steps, heavy hooves until the day i die and it will never grow old on me.
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falloftroys wrote:
Atleast they released all their demos and such for free. But still. Not happy.
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MyHeadOnAPlate wrote:
What a fucking bummer.
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excellence153 wrote:
Very sad to hear these guys broke it off. Thanks for the great tunes.
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RyanAlexanderB wrote:
fucking sad to hear they broke up. love their music.
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totes_banser wrote:
i'll be missing you :,(
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anticlimactica wrote:
Fuuuuck. I was just hoping they were taking a long time with the album. ;_;
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falloftroys wrote:
I'll miss them :(
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supermeggles wrote:
noooooooooooooo!
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CaleShort wrote:
Don't get dramatic, this ain't the movies. :(
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Mario_57 wrote:
http://www.dearandtheheadlights.com/goodbye.html Fuck
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heatherd117 wrote:
so sad i never got to see these guys live. :(
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meetmyphantom wrote:
nothing from me. Not even a single local show that i've known of for more than a year. (i'm from their home town.) haven't heard a peep from equal vision either. i have no idea what happened to them.
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Lovers.
6 Aug 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/dearandtheheadlights
We are still working on our new album ladies and gentlemen.
The sounds we are creating are very different from what we've done
before. You wont hear and think it's a completely different band or
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15 Jul 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/dearandtheheadlights
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