Armalite

Hi. My name is Atom, and I play in a band called Armalite. We’ve been practicing
together for about three years now, and played at least as many shows (at
most, eight). Armalite is composed of four busy-ish, older-ish folks. Most of us
play in other, full-on bands, and all of us have stuff that makes it near impossible
for Armalite to play outside of the Philadelphia metropolitan area on a regular, or
even occasional basis. So far, this is quite a sales pitch, no? Dan Yemin currently
screams, writes songs, and plays guitar occasionally for Paint It Black, and has been
in a bunch of bands that people liked, and continue to like, such as Lifetime, Kid Dynamite,
and even briefly played guitar for the pile of shit Ressurection. Mike McKee
currently also plays guitar, and sings in Amateur Party (which has a way better
name than Armalite... come to think of it, few bands don’t.... maybe the punksters
Total Society don’t), screamed for Philly hardcore doods and doodette Kill the Man
Who Questions, and is the editor of a decidedly non pile-of-shit magazine from
Philadelphia called Rockpile. Jeff Ziga currently plays drums for True If Destroyed,
Affirmative Action Jackson, and a rock n’ roll band camp during the summer. Me?
I’m a dad of a twenty month old, who is nicknamed ‘The Potato’, and I teach high
school physics and chemistry. I used to do a one person band-ish thing called Atom
and His Package, but missed playing loud guitar with humans.
We’re four friends who play music together in Armalite purely because it’s fun. We
like writing songs, and playing them together in Mike’s basement. We recorded a
bunch of them and godamnit, we WILL play some shows. What does it sound like?
Hmmm... Mike likes Ignition a LOT, and I am a sucker for pop... Dan & Jeff know the
difference between coming in on the ‘1’ and the ‘and’, and Mike and I fake it. Hope
you like it. Thanks.