LEVITATE
HISTORY:
WOW, THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG ONE. WELL HERE I GO. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, MART AND OLIVER HAD A PROJECT GOING ON. BUT THEY ENDED UP GOING THEIR OWN WAYS. MART JOINED A BAND WITH NADER"ZIG" AND OLIVER JOINED A BAND WITH JOHN. WELL, AFTER ALMOST 2 YEARS, THE BAND THAT MART AND ZIG WERE IN DISINTEGRATED AND THE SAME FOR THE BAND THAT JOHN AND OLIVER WERE IN. SO THE TIMING WAS PERFECT. MART CALLED UP OLIVER AND SAID HELLO AND IT ALL STARTED FROM THERE. MART INTRODUCED ZIG TO OLIVER AND THE ART BEGAN. THIS WAS IN FEBURARY 1999. ALMOST 5 MONTHS LATER JOHN ENTERED WHEN OLIVER INTRODUCED JOHN TO THE GUYS. AND LEVITATE WAS FORMED. IT WASN'T THAT BAD. AND THE MAJIC STARTED TO TAKE PLACE.
MEMBERS HISTORY:
OLIVER-
I STARTED TO PLAY GUITAR AT 13 AND I GOT INTO STUFF LIKE ZEPPELIN AND CREAM. COUPLE MONTHS AFTER I BOUGHT A JIMI HENDRIX TABLATURE BOOK. THAT INTRODUCED ME TO MORE TECHNICAL STUFF LIKE VAN HALEN (ERUPTION) AND YNGWIE MALMSTEAN AND LATER DREAM THEATER.
I MET MART THE FIRST TIME AT 16 VIA ONE OF MY FRIENDS, GAB. IT WAS MY FIRST BAND. WE PLAYED SOME COVERS OF METAL MUSIC LIKE MAIDEN AND MEGADETH. BUT THAT SPLIT UP. I TRIED A COUPLE TIMES AFTER THAT WITH MART TO FORM ANOTHER BAND BUT IT DIDN'T WORK. UNTIL 1997 WE WROTE A COUPLE REALLY GOOD SONGS LIKE (BEHIND EVERY HERO) AND (IT'S WHAT WE ARE) AND (NEVERMORE). BUT WE NEVER FOUND A SINGER SO THE BAND SPLIT UP.
AFTER THAT I WENT INTO A BAND CALLED SILVER CREEK, A ALTERNATIVE COVER BAND WITH A COUPLE OF ORIGINALS. IT IS IN THAT BAND THAT ME AND JOHN (LEVITATE'S SINGER) MET IN APRIL 1997.
IN 1998 I DID SOME GALA AND AMBIANCE MUSIC ON THE SIDELINES FOR THE F.A.S.L.
BUT IN JANUARY 1999 M AND MART RESTARTED TO WORK TOGETHER AND THAT WORKED REALLY GOOD. WE REHEARSED A COUPLE OF OLD SONGS LIKE (BEHIND) THEN WE CALLED NADER (ZIG).
WE DID SOME AUDITIONS FOR A SINGER BUT WE NEVER FOUND THE RIGHT GUY. BUT IN JUNE 1999 I CALLED JOHN AND SUGGESTED TO HIM THAT HE COME TO THE LOCAL AND LISTEN TO WHAT I WAS DOING WITH MART AND NADER. JOHN LIKED OUR SONGS AND THE BAND LIKE JOHNS VOICE, HE HAS THE KIND OF VOICE WE WANTED.