Agito Plus Nine

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After a fateful night of playing Initial D and playing acoustic guitar together, Douglas and Josh decided to start two bands that night, one called "Dances with Nickels" which was a joke band that sung about anything it could, and "Agito Plus Nine" a real band that played songs about girls, video games and movies. They went on as a two piece for quite awhile writing many songs they still enjoy today. Eventually their high school had a spring assembly and bands were encourage to try out. So they enlisted Steve "Zoidberg" on drums and actually got on the assembly. After playing with Zoidberg for awhile they found Steve Metcalf who is a genius at everything music but for some reason decided to play with them. This line up would be considered the first true lineup and would play a handful of more shows including, battle of the bands and Cary band night. However due to Douglas developing severe agoraphobia they disbanded late in 2005. Josh and Steve would go on to form "A Robot" a band that was still in a way close to Agito Plus Nine style but with better recordings and keyboard. Douglas went on to start the ill fated band "the Radical Dreamers" which didn't last long due to his agoraphobia and several unfortunate events. Douglas would later start a band called "We Can't Make It Right" and went on to play Cary Jame Fest. A Robot and We Can't Make It Right would even play together once thus bringing Josh and Douglas back together musically. They wrote two more Agito Plus Nine son

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# On "Agito Plus Nine" This album emerges from a genuinely playful origin—born from an evening of Initial D and acoustic improvisation—yet it takes its modest subject matter with surprising sincerity. What distinguishes it is how Douglas and Josh navigate the tension between their joke-band beginnings and their earnest musical ambitions, crafting songs about girls, video games, and movies that operate as genuine emotional artifacts rather than novelty pieces. The addition of Steve on drums transforms what might have remained a bedroom project into something with structural purpose and rhythmic weight. Rather than dismissing their influences as trivial, the band treats these touchstones of youth culture as legitimate terrain for exploration, creating something that

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