The Future Engine

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From their bandcamp "The origin of the band was a song that Greg and I wrote with Tracy Jorg. Over a few sessions, we fleshed it out with a drummer named Mike whose last name I can't recall. He might have been in Tracy's other band A Day for Honey... not sure. Tracy and Mike thought the song was "WLIR"-ish (their words!) and wanted to go in a more hardcore direction. But Greg and I loved the song and the direction we were taking so we got a rehearsal space in the winter of 2002-03 with Darren Tarrulli on drums (he was also the singer for This Years Model but IMO a better drummer than singer. Very creative and rock solid stylistically without a trace of metal or hardcore influences which was hard to find in our circles at that time). We wrote a lot of the music that ended up on the EP and then some during those sessions. After we auditioned about 20 girl singers, I think that's when Darren had enough. It also turned out to be a huge waste of time, because the perfect voice for the band was Dylan who we were friends with already and knew his signing from a band called Drill Press with Larry and Mike from Neck. He was a natural fit on vocals. And he was sitting on a notebook full of inspired lyrics from a breakup the year or so before, so the writing came very fluidly. I cannot recall how we met Joe to play drums, but Joe was a multi-instrumentalist. As good as he was on drums, he could also sing and play guitar. I believe he fronted an shoegazer band doing just that while he wa

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