Red Shirt Brigade

Red T shirt Brigade shaped in past due 1998 when singer/guitarist Trevor Naud, drummer Ryan Allen, and bassist Paul Bissa met at Central Michigan School. The trio quickly became a quartet by adding keyboardist Scott Allen. In early stages, they produced waves making use of their make of chaotic, however melodic pop/rock and roll, all born away from a punk ethic. Right from the start, Red T shirt Brigade turned minds with Naud’s regular vocals and inventive electric guitar function, Ryan Allen’s rousing drums, Scott Allen’s frenzied keyboards, and Paul Bissa’s regular hands on bass. The band’s 1999 documented debut was a self-released cassette, entitled The Crafty Bastard EP. The four music were documented and engineered with the Scott and Ryan’s dad, Brad Allen. The music group performed frequently in Michigan and started focus on their initial Compact disc. That disk, entitled Mock Election as well as the Post Selection, premiered in 2000 on Suburban Sprawl Information. Using the artwork created by Ryan Cady of Audiopants Recordings, the six-song Compact disc was the impetus of the eventual putting your signature on with Arborvitae Information away from Champaign, IL. In past due 2000, Bissa still left the music group when he transferred to Ohio for graduate college. Enter bassist Dan Clark, who was simply a longtime friend and supporter from the music group. Clark’s entry in to the music group marked the start of a new period for Red T shirt Brigade, because they retired their old songs and only new songs, that have been made up with Clark on bass. In early 2001, Crimson Clothing Brigade was presented on Michigan’s Elkion Information’ compilation entitled Reveal the type. In the summertime of 2001, the music group produced a westward trip to Seattle, WA, for the intended purpose of recording their 1st full-length disk with Loss of life Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla. The ten-day documenting program at Walla’s Hall of Justice Studios planted the seed products for greater what to arrive. The tour and documenting program invigorated the music group and the house from the Cannon Saints recording premiered in past due 2001 on Arborvitae and Suburban Sprawl Information. Arborvitae also released a limited-edition nine-song tour Compact disc for that summer time 2001 tour, entitled Furious Lessons From Background. In past due 2001, a earlier recording from the Four Tops’ track “SAME EXACT Song,” offering the initial lineup with Scott Allen on vocals, premiered within the Audiopants Recordings compilation Shoop Dee Doop: A Tribute to Motown.