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Old Joe’s Shoe is a punk/ska band from Omaha, Nebraska. Right
now there are 5 members, J.R. (guitar), Ryan
(guitar), Dennis (drums), Joe (bass),
and John (trumpet). We got together about a year ago, at the
beginning of that school year, when Joe came up to Dennis and said, “Hey, let’s
start a band.” Dennis agreed and they started lookin for a guitarist. Joe had been
learning guitar then, but dropped it for bass, since it was easier. One day, when Dennis
was at Joe’s house, J.R. showed up with his guitar and amp, and started playing. So
we asked him to play guitar for us. So that was the band, guitar, drums, and bass.
Dennis’ drumset was missing a few parts so they needed to use someone else’s set
to practice on. So we asked a couple of friends who had started their own band if they
could practice with them. We practiced with them for a long time, usually having to sit
through endless tries to cover Smells Like Teen Spirit. Finally, Dennis got all his parts.
and they moved to Joe’s basement.
One day at school, Joe came up to Dennis again. “Hey dude! I found a guy who
plays trumpet and wants to be in our band!” The kid’s name was Darryl, and he
joined the band. That was OJS’s first mistake. Darryl never even played trumpet at
the practices. He just sat there watching us practice. We kicked Darryl out, but never
told him. Then Dennis came to Joe. “Hey I know someone who plays trombone. Let’s
get him.” And Rolando joined the band. We eventually found a worthwhile trumpet
player, John. And that was OJS.
We entered the school talent show, almost caused a riot, and won first place.
The school asked us if we could play at MORP, which is like the backwards prom or
somethin. We did, and that day, Ryan came up to us asked if he could join the band. We let
him play a few songs during MORP, and then let him join. So now OJS had six members. We
played our first real show at a place called Area 51. It went pretty good. We played a
second show there which was just horrible. We screwed up real bad at that one, especially
when we tried to cover Minor Threat. Area 51 closed down cause some assholes kept leaving
all their trash in the parking lot, so we had nowhere to play. Then a place called the Cog
Factory asked us to play, and we’ve played a lot of shows there. Then, we entered the
Battle of the Bands at our school. We found a goofy ass kid named Dave to be our new
singer, but during that show, he just ran around and got the excited the crowd since he
didn’t know our words yet. About a week before the Battle of the Bands though, we
kicked out trombone player out, for too many reasons than we care to list. We lost the
Battle of the Bands to a band we beat at the Talent Show. But we scored a free prize which
we wont say, cause we’ll probably get in trouble. Then we played a show at the Cog
Factory with Dave, which went all right. Then a place called the Ranch Bowl, which just
kicks ass, asked us to play. There weren’t too many people at that show, but it was
an awesome show, especially since the sound guy set up an awesome sound system for us. We
could actually hear everything at one time. That’s been our last show, since this
summer we’ve been trying to make newer, better material. We have a demo that we
recorded before Area 51 closed down. It has five songs on it, and we ordered a 100 tapes
and sold them all for 4 bucks a piece. We ordered some more, and this time they were even
shrink wrapped, and we have a few left, so if you want some, you can email us at jeremydork@yahoo.com, hanson.jeremy@usa.net or skachili@aol.com. We are tryin to find a place to
record another demo with our newer stuff on it, so you can either wait for that or just
order our older demo
