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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

No Reason xxx.


No Reason xxx was a band that formed right on the heels on Halfmast's breakup in 1996. The idea was to still be a fast "youth crew" style straight edge band like Halfmast, but with a more updated and sometimes more "punk" sound. No Reason xxx was a fun band to be in and to write songs for. The Original Line up was My brother and I, the Ellman brothers and our cousin Abe. Abe played on the demo then moved before our first show, leaving us a four piece with Eric Ellman moving from guitar to bass. 
At our first show, Immigrant Sun records was talking to Chris Colohan, who was in Left For Dead at the time and asked us to do a split with them. We, of course, said yes; but shortly after, Left For Dead kind of fell apart. This was good because it gave us the opportunity to do a 7" with Immigrant Sun records, which people to this day still tell me they love. Ebullition Records refused to carry the record in their distro citing that it promoted violence against women. We used the Gator stuff because it was supposed to represent a loss of innocence for us and the world of skateboarding and because there was "No Reason" for him to do what he did. But I guess we never explained that to good old Kent McClard, but it made for a cool looking record sleeve.


Our local shows were ALWAYS incredible with kids singing along and having a good time. We played a lot of shows in the 1 1/2- 2 years we were together. On top of great local shows, we had some good shows on weekends we spent out of town in Chicago and Toronto. We broke up after playing a few shows at home after recording an LP we weren't happy with and losing our asses on a terrible tour that was plagued with cancellations. However, A good show we played in Toronto is shown here, though I think the date is a year off. We cover "Ready To Fight" by Negative Approach at the end, which I had zero recollection of until seeing this vid.