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Suburban Tragedy
12+ albums
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Formed in high school by Palm Harbor, FL residents and friends Nik Sharp, Jon Stride, and Paul Calvagna, Suburban Tragedy began as a band called Cling. Cling got signed to Zero Hour records before the bandmates were even out of high school, but hit a bit of bad luck when their record label went bankrupt before Cling's debut album could be released. Marshall Berle (nephew of Milton Berle and "discoverer of RATT and Van Halen") was then asked to put their album together, which he did, just before the band took time off to go to college. Discovering that the college life was not the life for him, Nik left school to persue his music career, and started a new band with Eric Bice, a Los Angeles session drummer. Their band wound up opening for acts such as Outkast and Kid Rock on a USA Network televesion program called "FarmClub." Nik loved his new band, but missed his old bandmates, and so he persuaded Jon and Paul to form a new band with Eric and himself. The name "Suburban Tragedy" was adopted due to the fact that the family members of the band thought that it was a tragedy that they'd all dropped out of school to pursue careers in music, and the band was born with Nik on vocals and rhythm guitar, Jon on lead guitar, Paul on bass, and Eric on drums. In 2002, "Fun for the Kids," Suburban Tragedy's first independent CD, was released, and sold over 4000 copies in the Pinellas County area. Soon, 97x, an alternative rock radio station in the Tampa Bay area, took notice of the
