Bios

The real story about Caffeinated...oh yeah unabriged edition...

Many years ago, like one and a half, in the confines of the Readington Middle School, this group of kids had a crazy idea. They might start a band, and call themselves the Hooligan Busters, busting all the hooliganated (is that a word?) kids in their way. Then it was decided that one such as mikekunka was not good enough for the band. He was booted. At this time, hosay took over the spot known to many as "Lead Guitar" and jdo picked up a position, sometimes referred to as "Bassist", with germ remaining at "Drums". The problem was, there was no direction. Eventually, the band ended up changing its name. The Hooligan Busters, protectors of all that is good and heartful, became an emo-influenced thing called Living In Yesterday. Whoever came up with that, we're not sure, but it didn't last long. It changed yet again, to an even better name, which was Crap Napkin. If you didn't notice, a crap napkin could be toilet paper. So the band was called, hypothetically, "toilet paper". At this point, mikekunka stepped in. Back in, should we say. And he picked up a position known as "Backup/Rhythm Guitar", aka - noob in the band. This was the rise of the band.

The name was changed, finally, to Caffeinated. The name was, oddly enough, thought up by Jdo in Candy Co. gazing at a strawberry lollipop. It means like energy, sugar, speed, life, happiness, movement, and general misbehavior. At one point, somewhere between then and now, hosay left the band on its own. mikekunka picked up the spot known as "Lead Guitar", where he stands to this day.

jdo had a number of good songs, and he had them recorded too. In Mid-June of 2003, he let out a few copies of the so-called "Demo", but it did not get very far. Whoops start over guys. So the new direction of the band was basically to follow in the footsteps of the Detroit-native Suicide Machines, incorporation some skacore into punk, in a fast-paced mix of craziness. We then realized that trying to be like someone was more beat than selling out. Start again. We realized we need some horns. Enter Taylor (sax), Marc (sax), Nathan (trombone) and Dan (trumpet). This caused our music to now become a contrast or maybe a mix of the Suicide Machines, Catch 22, Bob Marley, Big D And The Kids Table, Buck-O-Nine, Distorted Penguins, SGR, Goldfinger, Guttermouth, Mustard Plug, MxPx, Operation Ivy, Rancid, and Slapstick. This created a wild blend of punk/ska/reggae/swing/stuff. Ryan Rollero was quoted as saying something to the effect of "swing ska...with a hint of reggae." Then, write 12:45, "USOA". Incorporate horns and BAM we've got music. Next thing we know BAM we've got a show at Hamilton Street and BAM we're awesome. BAM. peace.

Name - Joseph Dolan

Place in band-bass, other singer guy, writes most of the songs (dammit jdo, way to be too good at everything)

Instrument - Ibanez GSR-200, Rogue 120W bass amp, Fernandez Native X guitar, fender stage DSP 160 amp. but please try not to forget that he stole the stage idea from mike.

Nicknames - jdo

Favorite bands- Mad caddies, Streetlight Manifesto, Rancid, Catch 22, Less Than Jake, MU330, Sublime, Suicide Machines, Boy o Boy, Big Wig, RX Bandits, Bouncing Souls, SGR, 311, Reel Big fish, aquabats, I voted for kodos, B.O.T.A.R., the slackers, mighty mighty bosstones, and caffeinated!

Status- single, looking for a hot slut

Favorite Thing About Music - Writing it and expressing myself through it

Jeremy

Place in band-drums

A.K.A-jeremiah (h 2 the omo)...haha, wen is he gonna realize we just called him a homo

Favorite bands-sucicide machines, sgr, reel big fish, rancid the mighty mighty bosstones, Knuckle sandwich, the stand it, and his most favorite band.....311

Favorite food-chicken TERIAKI

Status- is that a serious question?

Equipment-sun lite, zildjian & sabien cymbols, remo heads

Name - Michael Kunka

Place In Band - Lead Guitar, Singing???
Instrument - Fender Stratocaster, Fender Stage 160
Nicknames -mack, chunk(er), kunky
Favorite bands- streetlight manifesto, less than jake, catch 22, red hot chilis, op ivy, reel big fish, buck-o-nine, the ataris, goldfinger, SGR, rufio, the suicide machines, aquabats, flogging molly, guttermouth, mustard plug, MXPX, rancid, the starting line, the toasters, the mighty mighty bosstones, the used, taking back sunday, slick shoes, slapstick, liquid tension experiment, led zeppelin, dispatch, bob marley, blink-182
Status - i try to have friends. and i like care a lot. i mean a LOT.

Influences - Jimmy Page

Chris Tamlyn

Favorite Thing about Music - we (every band in the world) uses the same scales, but in about a million different ways, and it sounds different each time. thats awesome.

Name - Peter Forenza

Place In Band - a definite singer
Instrument - mouth, $10 microphone, jdo's oldschool musicman
Nicknames - Pfo, P dot Fo
Favorite bands- ltj, metallica, acdc, mighty mighty bosstones, rbf, sgr, knuckle sandwich, mustard plug, i voted for kodos, etc...
Status - yeah something about this girl meg
Influences - uhhhhhhh........ good question

Favorite Thing about Music - he questions it for a second.... and then comes to the conclusion that funness is the way to go if ur listening to music... and if ur not then u should not be at this site at this second

Name: Dan Rovensky

Place In Band: Trumpeter

Instrument: Vincent Bach 37 Silver Bb Stradavarius Trumpet

Nicknames: Grover, Jew

Favorite Bands: Streetlight Manifesto, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag, Miles Davis, Mighty Might Bosstones, Mustard Plug, B.O.T.A.R., NOFX, Glen Miller

Status: Umm...that's too personal for me

Influences: Miles Davis, Jamie Egan, the trumpet player from the Mad Caddies

Favorite Thing About Music: Being able to express my emotions in a way that people can (and can't) understand. Also, music influences everything that people do, whether it is joyous or sad. For me, being able to affect someone in a way that is personal to them is so wicked.

Name: Taylor Aldredge

Place in Band: Tenor Sax

Instrument: King Zephyr Special Bb Tenor Saxophone

Nicknames: Tay/Asshole

Favorite Bands: Lightyear, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, The Skatalites, The Specials

Status: At one point committed, now just hopeless

Influences: The Duke Ellington Orquestra, Stan Getz, New York Ska/Jazz Ensemble, Dave Thomas(old band teacher), Grandpa(gave me sax and told me to keep playing)

Favorite Thing About Music: No matter what, wherever you go in the world the one thing that always holds true is music. Music excites us, motivates us, moves us, teaches us, inspires us, soothes us; anything that can do all that is incredible to me.

Name: Marc Critelli
Place in Band: Alto/Bari Sax
Instrument: Jupiter alto a/ Myer Jazz mouthpeice, Yamaha Bari
Nicknames: Skank-less
Favorite Bands: Streetlight, Catch22, Toasters, Primus, Red Hot chili Peppers, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Frank Zappa, Christian McBride, Vic Wooten, Mad Caddies, Tower of Power, Lets Go Bowling, Planet Smashers, Sonny Rollins, Gerry Mulligan
Status: In low demand
Influences: All of it
Favorite Thing About Music: you think crack is addictive? take a hit of Ska...