GRIPTAPE IS DEAD! It lasted from June of 2002 - January of 2004. It all started when Kawan V. got asked if his "band" wanted to play some kids graduation party. Kawan said yes, but he didn't have a band then. That's how griptape formed. Kawan already played bass and he contacted Chino to play guitar. after some jamming with chirs d. they decided it would kind of work, but they needed a singer. Then chino asked me. At fist I was like, "hell no. i can't sing." (true!) we made 4 or 5 songs that kind of sucked (none of which we kept) but we had a blast, playing to like 9 or 10 or our friends who just kinda looked at us like we had "kick me" sings on our backs. we sucked hard but we continued, playing a few more local shows around rockville. After about a billion line up changes, chino moving to the south pacific, our drummer flakign out on us, and a million other problems... i kept the band going with all new members. Trhough this transition period griptape played with: jole r, avi, chris m, owen w, bryan f, porter g, and probably more that i'm forgetting. anyways, no matter who was in gripatpe we all had a fuckin' blast, and really enjoyed ourselves. There aren't many of you, but thanks to anyone who ever came to see us, bought a demo, slapped us ona show, or did anythign to help us out. We appreciate(d) it. 3/4 of griptape's final line up went on to form a new band, BAIL OUT!. We're a lot faster than griptape, we have shorter songs, and we still don't give a fuck. Awesome, now go skate and do something destructive!

-Nick
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