About Us

John and I playing our first performance for our high school band.

John and I were both in middle school together in Richmond Indiana, a small town about 1 hour east of Indianapolis on I-70. We were very different people to start out with, but we had one thing in common, music.

My father had played in a band since I was born, and his dad had been a piano, and folk guitar player for many years, so the blood was there, now all that we needed was the practice.

John had moved to Richmond from Cleveland Ohio earlier that year, and I did not know him until one day in Jim class we were discussing how much we disliked the teacher, and then through a small conversation the fact that he played guitar came out.

To start out with I did not even know how to play guitar; I had only learned a few cords here and there, but I wasn't getting anywhere. Luckily John had enough knowledge to get me started. He invited me over a few times, and in his attic bedroom we practiced many nights with me on drums and him on guitar.

This went on for a few months until I got good enough on guitar to be able to keep up with him on the songs that we were trying to cover (mostly Led Zeppelin tunes back then). Then voila! several months later, I was up to a level suitable for playing, and he was even better.

One night we were sitting up in that room that we had spent so many nights in playing songs, and we decided to start writing our first song. I had come up with the melody to Serenade #1 while listening to Neil Young's Needle and the Damage Done and altered it enough so it does not sound like that song at all anymore. We sat there for a few hours working through ideas, and then it was finished! We performed the song for John's parents and, of course, they were very supportive.

There were a few years after that where we just wrote songs, but there was nothing really significant that happened to us until our senior year in high school.

We had setup a meeting with a record company in Ohio in hopes that they would be willing to fund an album project. We went there with high hopes. After a meeting with this man and him listening to our music, he let us know that he was willing to sign us on to his label. We were very excited by this, but the more we talked to this guy, the more we realized that this record company was a joke. They were going to "allow" us to put their logo on our album, and we were going to still have to pay to make our album. Needless to say, we turned him down.

But shortly after that, a friend of ours, Aaron Seagraves (which was an instructor at Recording Workshop in Ohio) told us that he would be willing to record our album. So many hours, Mt. Dew's and late nights later, Minor Thoughts was recorded, and finished in the wonderful Studio C.

The album was finished in mid 1999, and we were both getting ready to go to college, so we did not have any time to promote the album, or play anywhere. We went our seperate ways, John to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and I to Purdue University. We didn't play together for a couple of years.

Fast forward to 2005 and John and I still aren't able to play together as much as we'd like, but we're both doing well in our own right. John is working at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles and Evan has been working as a graphic designer and website developer for around 5 years. They both still play music, but not together. John Adams is the guitarist for John Spiker and Evan is the drummer for Unseen.