Clutch Bananas will be one of the bands competing in the Southern Regional Semi-finals at Harrah’s New Orleans. If you want to see the best rockers in the South (and here your Blogmaster must interject a stoic “Represent!”), you should head over there on April 30.
The Clutch Bananas practicing, one hopes, at a costume party.
“We had to give them a standing ovation,” Travis says of their fierce competitors. Props for sportsmanlike conduct, guys! It’s nice to see respect for all rockers on the stage.
It was a close call indeed, but with a whopping score of over 2 million Clutch Bananas took home the $2,500 prize money and earned a trip to the New Orleans competition.
A Freakin' Impressive Score and NOT for Give It Away
They bandmates all work together, as Travis, Oleg, and Jason are web developers and Chris is a senior programmer. (This Blogmaster wonders if perhaps many Rock Banders are plucked from the tech industry.)
“We used to spend lunch breaks playing some Call of Duty. One day Oleg brought over Rock Band and we dogged him for it pretty bad,” Travis confesses, “but by the second song we were hooked!” Such is the way of many Rockers.
At any rate, it helps that the Clutch Bananas have a real-life drummer in Jason Freeman and that they practice three times a week to prepare for the competition. Good luck to Clutch Bananas and all the bands that are heading to New Orleans!
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April 27, 2009 at 12:20 pm |
Good Luck! I know ya’ll are going to win.
April 28, 2009 at 3:23 pm |
We are excited for the “Clutch Bananas” & are looking forward to seeing ya’ll win on Thursday night !!
May 4, 2009 at 2:33 pm |
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