Jeff Zahos

Recently, Faster Forward played a short recording session at the Krannert Center for students in the audio production class (I am not in the class – I was just drumming and singing background vocals. In fact, I was forbidden from touching microphones or other audio gear – I could just “Ask questions”. I asked many annoying “questions”!). Sound files from this session

…will never be heard in public! (You could say it was an “off night” for FF, which is to say “a night”. That said, we did 3 songs in as many hours, which is an insane pace).

The good 2/3 of Faster Forward

Jay on bass

Hamptone keeping it real on kick and snare

Robert at the DDA console

Chris, Beth and Robert, our engineers for the session

I play in a couple bands based in Champaign, IL.  One of them – definitely the most domestic-aquatic themed one – is called  Backyard Shark.  I love playing with Ed, Tony and Tommy B – we’ve been together for several years now, which not many bands that have members in 3 cities (4 from Aug. ‘08-May’09) can say.  We have a lot of fun, and we like to think our audiences do, too!  Check us out at:

• Facebook! A book with pictures of our Shark-face
• MySpace! OurSpace
• Flickr! Awesome pics, mostly taken by the awesome Taylor “Hawkins, drummer from the Foo Fighters” Thornton
• Purevolume! LOUD!
• Twitter! Does this have something to do with texting?  I don’t text – I don’t have anything to do with this one…

SHARKIFY!

I play in two bands, the fastest and most forward-moving of them is Faster Forward (although it’s generally about the same speed as Backyard Shark, and in fact, if you averaged the tempos of all the songs from the respective bands, probably slower, and I’m not sure if it is in fact any more forward-moving than Backyard Shark…).  ANYWAY, that is the name of the band!  John Caparoon (the guy on the left) is the primary singer and a fantastic songwriter.  Jay Creek (on the right, keeping us honest) plays bass.

Check out:

A short demo:

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• John’s Reverbnation page
• John Caparoon’s MySpace

Faster Forward at Memphis On Main - Jan 30th, 2010