As a means of popping this blog's cherry, a brief introduction. I'm Dusty, the drummer, or as the rest of the band refers to me, "the loud one." That much said, here's what I think. Loudly.
Common Swift is a band dedicated to the ideal that rock 'n' roll can simultaneously melt face and produce an irresistable urge to flail one's arms and legs about in a physical expression of its sheer awesomeness... or something like that. The band was founded in a leaky, moldy basement in Madison sometime in 2008 by guitar player Brian Strutt, Bassist Clinton Bader and me. We could play a soft jazz cover of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" all the way through -- Forty minutes of glory. It was pretty bitchin'.
As Alissa Stormont was kind of hanging around a lot for some reason, we got her to pick up a flute and play a few tunes with us. Then we put her up front and made her sing 'cuz she's a lot prettier than the rest of us. She hasn't forgiven us yet.
Jeff Ingebritsen and Parker Reynolds joined our ranks as keys players, vocalists and dancers extraordinaire not long after, and we became Common Swift. As members of the band, we are called "swifts" individually, but when our powers combine, we are Common Swift.
After playing a few shows for fun last autumn, we went underground to compose some more original tunes and work on a demo disk. That disk is now nearing completion, and the band is champing at the bit to get back in front of a live crowd. It's guaranteed to be epic.
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