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So Six Ways started out back in 1997. We rocked right on through 98 and now we hope to rock like it's 1999, since it's 1999. Six Ways is the amalgamation of Jeremy, who plays the bongos, Patrick who plays the tongue harp, and me, Brendan, I tie a shoelace to a stick and nail the stick on a metal tub and pluck pluck pluck. I also sing. We've been described as a blend of the Promise Ring, Jawbreaker, and Braid. We'd like to think we bring a certain individuality to a musical genre that seems so exude sameness. We play music in CT, Mass, RI and anywhere else that will let us.
The three of us started out in another band called Anchorhead. Anchorhead however, had Adam Sullivan on drums, and Jer was playing guitar. We were a mid-tempo punk rock group. We were together for two years and we actually put out a tape. Lots of fun was had until Adam decided to leave the band to move to California. He is a REALLY good skateboarder and he moved out there to be closer to his sponsors and everything. Congratulations to Adam cause he recently got a full page advertisement in Transworld Skateboard magazine for his sponsor, Gouge clothing. Yay!!
After Adam left, our friend Jay Bayer (fr. Prank) filled in on drums for us but it really didn't work out too well so at last we decided to end it. One night we were going back over to our practice space I had the inspiration to play music so we just dinged around for awhile. Jer decided to hop on the drum set and we wrote our first song as Six Ways From Sunday. Needless to say we were excited again.
Our first show was April 17th 1998 in West Hartford. We played like shit and it was an assy show but you gotta start somewhere. We actually have a video of that show and looking back at that tape turns my stomach! Oh well.
Six Ways practices in the Rice's basement, or "punk rock house." The Rice's house is in Ellington, where we all live. There are cows, you can be sure, but we can't smell their poop anymore! If you were to come to one of our shows in Ellington, you will smell the poop!
On or about April 7th, we acquired our van, which I named "Big Bastard" after a favorite waste basket of mine. The story is, shortly after I saw the movie From Dusk Till Dawn, i started working a construction site with Pat in which on weekends, we cleaned out an entire school which was being renovated. We had many different tools of the trade to use. One was a small wastebasket on a handtruck which we called "lil' bastard", the next was a stupid thing on wheels that sucked and that was just "you fucking bastard" (cause most of the time I would try to dump the dust and garbage and it would fall on my head and get me all dirty", and finally, on a separate hand truck, we had "big bastard." Undeniably the finest waste receptacle I have ever worked with. It's two years later and I still use it. My apologies for the digression. Our van is blue and long. If you see us pull up to a show, please come hang out in "Big Bastard."
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