Artist: Mellowdrone
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Go Get Em Tiger
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
Though the Venezuelan-born, Miami-bred guitar player and star vocalist of Mellowdrone, Jonathan Bates, had been playing the instrument since a nipper, it wasn't until he got to Berklee School of Music that he realised he was plainly a technically good guitar player, and didn't actually know often about music. At geezerhood 20, and a class before graduating, Bates left Boston and moved to Los Angeles to begin badly composing and recording his own music. His 2003 self-released EPs, A Demonstration of Intellectual Property and Go Get 'Em Tiger, the latter recorded with Tony DeMatteo on guitar, Scott Ellis on drums, and Greg Griffith on bass voice, caught the attention of early Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, world Health Organization invited Bates, under the bring up Mellowdrone, to open for him during his approaching tour. When Bates had finished acting with Marr, Tony DeMatteo rejoined Mellowdrone, and after a feverish touring schedule with bands like the Killers, Elbow, and Secret Machines, the radical gestural to 3 Records/Red Ink in 2005. Their number one full-length album, Box, came out the following year.
