Scott George owner of Together Records/Killed For Less Records says One Point Two CD is still available on interpunk.com and to this date claims it to be ahead of its time and ground breaking.
The group later met up with the former guitarist and singer of Good for Nothing, Nic Newsham and Ryan Van Wieringen, and formed Gatsbys American Dream.
Shortly afterward, Gatsbys signed a two-record deal with Rocketstar and worked with producer Aaron Sprinkle to record their 2002 debut album Why We Fight.
[citation needed] Shortly after the release of their first album, the line-up changed when bassist Josh Berg left and Kirk Huffman (formerly of K Through Six) was recruited.
[2] In 2003, the band released their second record, Ribbons and Sugar, a concept album based loosely on George Orwell’s fable Animal Farm.
[3] Musically, the album found them exploring a harder-edged pop sound, opting for unusual time signatures and tempo changes.
Newsham and Darling's lyrics for Lost Monsters reflected this struggle, criticizing the music industry and expressing the band's wariness of record labels, although this was not the only theme of the album.
Thematically, Volcano revolves around Pompeii (as evidenced by the title of the second track on the record), which stands as a metaphor for the uncontrollable intensity of human emotion.
The album is rife with literary and cultural references from such diverse works as children's film Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Lionhead Studio's Fable, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the action film Jurassic Park, and Orson Scott Card's science-fiction epics Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.
The album is peppered with numerous pop culture and literary references, which appear in both the lyrics and song titles, ranging from works by Philip K. Dick to the television show Lost.
The show concluded with all of the members of Gatsbys American Dream going on stage after Places and Numbers and playing "Theatre" off of Volcano.
On March 11, a second song, initially named "Born Dead", was to be streamed, but it was delayed and renamed "Untitled" after the 2011 Yunnan earthquake.
The band's name was taken from a Gatsbys song from In the Land of Lost Monsters, which was often thought to be a reference to an army's color code from the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Newsham has said this was just a coincidence).
On August 23, Newsham posted a MySpace bulletin stating that due to popular request, he would start writing more songs for RedRedBlue, but that they would likely be acoustic-only.
In August 2007, the band started a MySpace page and posted a single song, titled "Ahead of Us the Secret" which was also made available for free download at Gatsbys fansite Snicker At The Swine.
Marrakesh is an alterative/grunge band started by James Hill, Kyle O’Quin, Andy Lum, and Ryan Van Wieringen in 2008 and was active until 2010.
The band came out of an idea both members had about mapping out an entire album using guidelines for the tempo and key and setting up the session in ProTools before playing a single note.
Princess Dinosaur is a side project started by Nick Vombrack (formerly of Dr Manhattan) with help from Nic Newsham.
They released a six-song EP titled "A Goldfish and his Friends" for one "Like" on Facebook[19] Band Members: Bobby Darling has recorded new material under the moniker Places and Numbers with the help of friend/producer Casey Bates, using an iBook and a Macbook Pro while they traveled around Europe.
Places and Numbers signed to Equal Vision Records in early 2010 and released their debut EP, Waking The Dead, on a pay what you can model through Bandcamp.com.
(July 10, 2015) Seattle-based indie rock vets Bobby Darling and Nic Newsham (formerly of Gatsby’s American Dream) have recently revealed their new post-punk collaboration, The Money Pit, and are set to release their self-titled debut on September 4.
The Man, Pierce the Veil), the record evokes the garage rock sound of early The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys, while retaining signature elements that Gatsby’s longtime fans will recognize.