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Two Guys
12+ albums
noisealternative rockExperimental Rockexperimentalnoise rock
about
Two Guys are releasing their debut album, Recorded. It should be as simple as that. Hopefully, you got a copy of the album with this bio, you listen to it, you recognize greatness and everyone is happy. It doesn't work like that, does it ? You need background, maybe a little sexiness. Two Guys are Cameron Jones on baritone guitar and Ryan Jones on drums. They're brothers. Ryan is older, Cameron writes the songs and sings. They both live in Portland, OR. Cameron spent a number of years living in San Diego, CA. While he was there, he played with a few bands of which you might have heard: Thingy, Pinback and Physics. Right about now, you can't get much sexier than Pinback, though it would be the three or four years spent with Thingy that would make the biggest mark on the younger Mr. Jones. Sometimes he played bass, his first instrument, other times he played drums. Tired of San Diego, Cameron headed north in mid-2001 to reunite with his very first collaborator, big brother Ryan, and, for the first time, step out of the back-ground and into the spotlight. OK, now you need a little direction, some inspiration per-haps. A guy named Rob Crow was/is also in all three of those San Diego bands, his unusual and innovative style of song-writing (particularly the work he's done in Thingy and Heavy Vegetable) to be a major influence on Cameron. The struc-tures of Crow's songs are decidedly experimental, replete with nasty time changes, hairpin stops and turns and strange key shifts, al
