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The Meeting Places was founded in September 2001 in Los Angeles, California by four guitarists: Scott McDonald, Chase Harris, Dean Yoshihara, and Arthur Chan. McDonald and Chan had been friends since high school and met Harris at a Super Bowl party earlier that year at which they realized each was going to see a Mojave 3 show a couple of weeks later. Having a shared interest in music, the three guitarists later decided to rehearse and after a few practices they recruited Yoshihara, a college friend of Harris’ at the University of Arizona, to play drums. Chan then switched to bass while singer and lyricist Harris remained on rhythm guitar. Original compositions started to develop immediately — “Wide Awake,” “Where You Go,” and “See Through You” were the first songs written by the group.

While McDonald became the architect of the quartet’s signature reverberating washes, each member contributed to the songwriting process on their debut album for Words On Music (Dean and Arthur picking up the guitar again for passages in “Take to the Sun” and “On Our Own” respectively). In Autumn 2002 the band recorded their debut album at The Ship with Aaron Espinoza, the famed musician (Earlimart) and producer (The New Folk Implosion, Eliot Smith, The Breeders).

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1	Now I Know You Could Never Be the One full track	77
2	On Our Own full track	73
3	Freeze Our Stares full track	62
4	See Through You full track	53
5	Wide Awake full track	49
6	Same Lies As Yesterday full track	47
7	Love Like The Movies full track	38
8	Hall Of Fame full track	37
9	Until It's Gone full track	33
9	Blur the Lines full track	33
11	Where You Go full track	30
12	Take to the Sun full track	29
13	Sink Into Stone full track	25
14	Numbered Days full track	23
14	Cardboard Robot full track	23

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placebo_molko wrote:
22 days ago

hm, curious, i was going to say "with their new track they are heading a bit for a silversun pickups sound" and now i see silversun pickup among the bands they have on the links on their website.. Oh by the way, pretty cool band, i had "find yourself..." there and never paid attention to it, why i always do that? it happened with the raveonettes too, and now they are like 9# in my chart. Umm.. no one cares about that. Lol. Bye

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toddc2001 wrote:
last month

Check out our interview with THe Meeting Places here: http://thedumbingofamerica.net/2009/07/30/your-new-favorite-band-the-meeting-places/

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florynatah wrote:
August 2009

you should come to spain

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proquis wrote:
August 2009

nice music =)

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nickems wrote:
July 2009

blur the lines is amazing

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Nostradumbass03 wrote:
June 2009

You know Scott, I always thought that picture wasn't of you guys. It's the one that's used for your band all over LastFM, as it's been voted for 74 times. I don't know how to get rid of it, the person that posted it hasn't logged in to LastFM in 3 years. Oh yeah, the new song Millions kicks ass. Everyone check it out.

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missmadidi wrote:
June 2009

my favourite band for this week.

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s_c_o_t_t wrote:
May 2009

Whoa...that very top black & white photo is definitely not us. Weird. Anyway, we have a brand new demo called "Millions" over here: www.themeetingplaces.com

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chamaleonicann wrote:
May 2009

good

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Mizuhara wrote:
May 2009

Awesome band!

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fgb362 wrote:
April 2009

One of my favorites!

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tanna1 wrote:
March 2009

i love this band!

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loccoco wrote:
March 2009

VERY GOOD

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foolishwolf wrote:
December 2008

On Our Own is such an amazingly good song. I discovered The Meeting Places this summer and I recall the best of times during it where when I was sitting on my back porch smoking a cigar listening to Find Yourself Along the Way. The movie Lost In Translation opened me up to shoegaze, The Meeting Places solidified it.

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manfred_macx wrote:
November 2008

There's plenty of room in dream pop/shoegaze for subtle distinctions. "Find Yourself Along the Way" is by far the most listenable and relaxing album in the genre I've yet come across.

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InASafePlace wrote:
November 2008

"Until It's Gone" is one of the best shoegaze songs ever made. Surreal track.

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Nostradumbass03 wrote:
September 2008

Ashluke, the 2nd album doesn't sound all that much like the first one. Much less use of pedals and the so called "etheral" sounding guitars. Still good stuff though, definitely one of my favorite newer bands.

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swedepop wrote:
September 2008

I am pretty much in love with " Now I know that you could never be the one".

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01010100 wrote:
September 2008

good way to start a week

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Ashluke wrote:
September 2008

Find yourself is a very good album, how is the last one?

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