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тк вконтакте нету такой группы, я ее сделаю))
про группу Wakefield я узнала из фильма Мгновение Нью-Йорка, и мне понравилось)приглашайте друзе! тк группа клёвая) я про музыкантов)
плз добавляйте тексты песен,инфу,картинки!очень мало про эту группу пишут=(
состав:
Ryan Escolopio - Vocals,Guitar
J.D. Tennyson - Guitar,Vocals
Mike Schoolden - Bass,Vocals
Aaron Escolopio - Drums
Mechanicsville, Maryland isn't exactly a breeding ground for rock bands. Cover band, maybe. Country act, even. But not rock groups who administer hook-heavy melodies that bounce through the brain like ping-pong balls and linger long after the air's gone quiet. The tobacco fields and Amish communities just seem incompatible with all that.
It is the kind of place, though, that elicits dreams of escape, of getting out, and for JD and Ryan, that was incentive enough for starting WAKEFIELD. Three years and thousands of hours of rehearsals later, the grade-school friends along with Ryan's brother Aaron and cousin Mike drop AMERICAN MADE, an album of insouciant, and sometimes poignant songs strung together by rising and falling guitar riffs, staccato drum beats, and three-part harmonies. The album opens with bite, kicking off with the fierce guitar strains of "Sold Out" (not to mention its sardonic lyrics: We're in it for the money/and all the groupie honeys/so we sold out). It slips from the straightforward punk-pop morsel, "Un-sweet Sixteen" to the ska-tinged, celebrity-jabbing, "Infamous." The quick-pulsed first single, "Say You Will" is a rollicking love story of sorts inspired by the film, Scream. "Get your heart broken a few times and the tragedy begins to unfold" says 18-year-old Ryan. Heard together, AMERCAN MADE is a patchwork of vivid snapshots painted into tidy four-minute spaces.
The slow pace of life in St. Mary's County, Maryland may encourage laziness, but for the two founders of WAKEFIELD, those wide-open spaces sparked their ambition. When JD got his first drum kit in the seventh grade, he got the itch to perform. For Ryan, a veteran of local talent shows since kindergarten the gnawing took hold even earlier. "My dad was in a Journey and Chicago cover band," says Ryan. "Music was everywhere growing up. From Garth Brooks to Shania Twain or Butch Walker and Blink 182." After meeting in school and discovering their mutual affinity for bands as diverse as Green Day, the Police, and Slipknot, Ryan and JD formed their own cover band. "We covered Rage Against the Machine and the Deftones," recalls JD. There wasn't anywhere to play for 14-year-olds, so after begging their parents for equipment funding, they found alternative venues. "We'd play birthday parties, garages, anywhere anyone would let us," they laugh. Occasionally their band, Soar ("It was misspelled; it was supposed to be Sore," groans Ryan) played with local celebrities, Good Charlotte, in which Ryan's older brother was the drummer. A fan base was created.
Cover songs, as they will, eventually lost their luster, and JD couldn't stand being trapped behind his kit. "I'd be back there watching Ryan going nuts on stage, and the other guys just picking their noses." He promptly switched to guitar. Ryan's cousin, Mike, a guitarist in a group a few towns over, agreed to take over bass duties. Aaron, as fate would have it, decided to part ways with Good Charlotte. Thus WAKEFIELD was born. Well, not exactly. "We were originally going to be called the Ninja Penguins," cringes JD. Truth be told, the band is named for the street that Aaron and Ryan grew up on, but they're still perfecting a more colorful backstory (just ask).
Meeting every day after school and on weekends, the foursome wrote and rehearsed relentlessly. "We were determined to be signed in a year. We borrowed so much money and set our goals really high," says Ryan "we were focu
