Gatsbys American Dream (there is no apostrophe) is the sliver of hope amongst a world of shitty, generic, thoughtless, pop punk shit.
The band has their roots in indie, pop punk, and folk, but incorporates several other genres including metal and post-hardcore.
Each member of the band has made a risky move by learning the ancient arts of music making:
The singer's lyrics are poetic, metaphorical, and instead of singing about ex-girlfriends, he sings about events in literature, therefore forcing the listener to use his or her brain.
The guitars (Mainly Bobby) have looked into the past and learned what we once called "guitar chords", in oppose to the modern "power chord". Bobby often uses minor chords, bar chords, and sevenths.
The bassist read an encyclopedia and learned that bass is short for bass GUITAR, and actually plays it like one, instead of constantly playing rythm.
"When Vin Diesel invented the drums, he appointed Rudy Gajadhar as the overseer to the instrument. You can't top his skillz." Unlike all drummers in modern music, the drummer has developed his skills to keep rythm, and stand out at the same time, like God intended.
I haven't heard enough of the keys, but it's not often someone makes a ringing organ sound good.
The bands only shortcoming is that, after their debut album, the went hysterical and decided NOT to use the mind-numbing chorus-verse-chorus song structure in EVERY SONG, making the band unbelievably better, but sadly, angering the mighty money thirsty record labels.
If you like talent, and lots of it. Give any CD by this band a listen.
If you like Green Day and think power chords are always good, I highly recomend you stay away, this might scare you.
Members:
Nic Newsham- Sings and writes
Bobby Darling- Plays beast guitar and sings
Kirk Huffman- Plays bass guitar and sings
Kyle O'Quin- Plays keys in the last album
Rudy Gajadhar- Drums like a god
Ryan Van W*$(&*- PLayed the guitar in the first to albums, and sings some of Badlands on the CD Volcano
Dustin- Drums in the first CD, although he ain't no Rudy, he is magnificent.
The band has their roots in indie, pop punk, and folk, but incorporates several other genres including metal and post-hardcore.
Each member of the band has made a risky move by learning the ancient arts of music making:
The singer's lyrics are poetic, metaphorical, and instead of singing about ex-girlfriends, he sings about events in literature, therefore forcing the listener to use his or her brain.
The guitars (Mainly Bobby) have looked into the past and learned what we once called "guitar chords", in oppose to the modern "power chord". Bobby often uses minor chords, bar chords, and sevenths.
The bassist read an encyclopedia and learned that bass is short for bass GUITAR, and actually plays it like one, instead of constantly playing rythm.
"When Vin Diesel invented the drums, he appointed Rudy Gajadhar as the overseer to the instrument. You can't top his skillz." Unlike all drummers in modern music, the drummer has developed his skills to keep rythm, and stand out at the same time, like God intended.
I haven't heard enough of the keys, but it's not often someone makes a ringing organ sound good.
The bands only shortcoming is that, after their debut album, the went hysterical and decided NOT to use the mind-numbing chorus-verse-chorus song structure in EVERY SONG, making the band unbelievably better, but sadly, angering the mighty money thirsty record labels.
If you like talent, and lots of it. Give any CD by this band a listen.
If you like Green Day and think power chords are always good, I highly recomend you stay away, this might scare you.
Members:
Nic Newsham- Sings and writes
Bobby Darling- Plays beast guitar and sings
Kirk Huffman- Plays bass guitar and sings
Kyle O'Quin- Plays keys in the last album
Rudy Gajadhar- Drums like a god
Ryan Van W*$(&*- PLayed the guitar in the first to albums, and sings some of Badlands on the CD Volcano
Dustin- Drums in the first CD, although he ain't no Rudy, he is magnificent.
Listening to Gatsbys American Dream will raise your standards of creative music to a new level:
Unenlightened guitarist: Hey you wanna hear a song I wrote?
Enlightened guitarist: Sure!
*Unenlightened plays a solid three minutes of nothing but the same 4 power chord progressions and wails about how his ex left him*
Enlightened: ...didn't Sum 41 make that song already?
Why didn't you play any chords?
Unenlightened: What's a chord?
Unenlightened guitarist: Hey you wanna hear a song I wrote?
Enlightened guitarist: Sure!
*Unenlightened plays a solid three minutes of nothing but the same 4 power chord progressions and wails about how his ex left him*
Enlightened: ...didn't Sum 41 make that song already?
Why didn't you play any chords?
Unenlightened: What's a chord?
by Willbert. July 22, 2009
Get the Gatsbys American Dream mug.the staff calls our school diverse, they pride themselves off the fact that we strive for equality and fairness. with a school that's "melting pot" is 97% white this is already hard to believe. Stepping into the school you feel welcomed and embraced, as long as you are white, christian, rich, and a male. Anyone who steps even slightly outside of this category is judged. With rape accusations higher than ANY other school in the district is this really a surprise? Their policy for handling situations like sexual assault was to avoid said person because they "have such a bright future". I didn't know a school could possibly make people feel so unheard. White kids dressed in expensive brands just because they can, flaunting around their superiority complexes and saying the n-word along with other racist and homophobic slurs. yikes. Some aspects of the school are great but the school itself is the definition of performative activism. On the outside they preach equality and friendship but when it gets down to it they could not care less. When you have more than one seminar and announcement warning the use of slurs yet not enforcing that sentiment in person it really makes you wonder. Any form of activism done has been to increase social capital. This is proved by the school doing close to nothing about rape culture until dozens of girls started to speak out on social media so to save face they started making statements and enforcing what should have been happening for years.
Remember when Los Gatos High School was on the news multiple times for being racist and even for blackface! What a stand up bunch of kids I bet they learned their lesson and the school punished them! Oh.. they were just given a warning and the school said they would try to teach a less whitewashed history and, "taking steps to better educate students"? Great...
by gayandhomophobic?yep! January 26, 2021
Get the Los Gatos High School mug.it's more oh my gosh than oh my gosh!
by jenny from the block! September 10, 2010
Get the oh my gatos! mug.1. A 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
2. An alcoholic shot named for the film containing a mix of vodka, Goldschläger, and Kahlúa.
2. An alcoholic shot named for the film containing a mix of vodka, Goldschläger, and Kahlúa.
1. Have you seen that movie Enemy At The Gates? Those snipers were crazy.
2. Who's down for a round of Enemy At The Gates?
2. Who's down for a round of Enemy At The Gates?
by c.sharp January 23, 2009
Get the Enemy At The Gates mug.Dave was drunk, and a bit too slow to pull out, he left her with pearly gates.
Dave: " I hope she didn't get pregnant, I left with pearly gates last night."
Sean: "That sucks."
Dave: " I hope she didn't get pregnant, I left with pearly gates last night."
Sean: "That sucks."
by TomShannon666 May 3, 2009
Get the Pearly gates mug.A charge in any given region can be found by integrating the e-field to find the electric flux. Used in the electromagnetics course in Electrical Engineering.
Gauss's Law can be represented as:
∮E·dA= Q/εo
Gauss's Law can be represented as:
∮E·dA= Q/εo
by asebak March 4, 2010
Get the gauss law mug.As of 2009, the 3rd richest man in the world, he has made our lives easier through Microsoft and has redefined many times the meaning of "Personal Computer". Bill Gates, along with Steve jobs, have made our lives easier ever since the 1990's with the internet and the pc's and macs, and even though there's controversies about which is better, deep down, we all know there equal. He has donated billions of dollars to charities and will keep on doin' it until he's out of money. He is a good man and therefore deserves to be respected.
"If you had a chance to meet bill gates, would you do it?"
"no, he's a nerd"
" Well he's a rich nerd"
"I don't give a crap, hes lame."
" You're a retard."
"no, he's a nerd"
" Well he's a rich nerd"
"I don't give a crap, hes lame."
" You're a retard."
by Ricky000 January 11, 2009
Get the Bill Gates mug.