Artist: mi6
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Punk Rock is Your Friend
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Lunchbox
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
2000 - Alcoholiday
Year: 2000
Tracks: 22
The 4 that makes up mi6 hails from Lawrence, KS, and infuses its blithesome thug music with the Midwestern values that get along from the open plains. Kenny Peterson, guitar and lead-in vocals (born Kenny Peterson III, 1971, Milwaukee, WI), started his first band, One Way, piece still in heights school. After he joined the Army, he base time to practice his guitar day-to-day while stationed in San Antonio. In 1991, he enrolled at the University of Kansas and in 1993 started doing the vocals for Cockpit Biscuit (CB). When its guitar player left, Peterson slipped into the dual role of guitar player and vocaliser. From 1994 to 1996, Cockpit Biscuit managed to record deuce albums and a few videos in addition to hatchway for some better-known bands. In 1997, when its bass player left to go to work at Microsoft, the banding dissolved. Peterson decided to keep abreast his love for new wave tinder and cast an ad in the paper; Aaron Riffel, bass and backing vocals (born 1976, Topeka, KS), responded.
Riffel fell in sexual love with music and the drums when he was octonary, influenced by Sammy Hagar's telecasting "I Can't Drive 55," simply didn't get his number one guitar until he was 13. He shortly establish his true corner when he acquired a bass and joined with friends to form the Deprived. The banding recorded one album and played about Kansas for around a class and a half in front dissolution in 1997. Then, Riffel met Peterson and they worked with various musicians with the sole estimation of playing songs that were fun and writing lyrics that represented real life as they saw it. With Joe Weaver (from Cockpit Biscuit) as the drummer, the trio continued to write and play gigs locally. They shortly chose the distinguish mi6 and off the road touring. In 1998, mi6 cut off its first base self-titled demo and began opening for bands such as Ten Foot Pole, L7, the Suicidal Tendencies, and Good Riddance. Weaver finally left to follow his erotic love for blues and jazz. In March 1999, Peterson and Riffel met David White (guitar and backing vocals) and Jimmy Coles (drums and rhythm section) whose isthmus 2 Player Option open for them. The iV plant their styles fit perfectly.
Jacques Louis David White (born 1977, Ann Arbor, MI) started playing acoustic guitar when quite loretta Young and in fifth degree was enrolled in a classical schooltime of music. He studied there 2 eld, managed to get out, bought an 85-dollar guitar from a JC Penney's catalog, and started practicing heavy metal riffs. In 1991, he formed Muck Rake, his first isthmus. After graduating from high school in 1996, White went to the University of Kansas and in 1997, he met Jimmy Coles (born James Oscar Coles IV, 1977, Griesheim, Germany).
Coles loved drums, just at the urging of his band instructor, played trombone for eight eld. During high school, he lived in South Korea and managed to get some drumsticks and conjoin the toughie band BENCH. This was one of the few punk bands in Seoul. Later, at the University of Kansas, Coles met White and they formed the 2 Player Option. This band recorded 2 demos and played gigs locally for two long time until it incorporated with mi6.
Alcoholiday, mi6's first full-length CD, was recorded during the summer of 1999 and released by Sump Pump Records in May 2000. Rave reviews carried it to number one on wWW.GarageBand.com. The New York Times contacted mi6 and did a front-page article on them (the isthmus shared the page with Bill Clinton and Yassar Arafat). mi6 besides recorded the track "Stupid Little Things" on the compilation Local Super Heroes released by Syde-Sho Productions; "Lezbian Girlfriends" on the compilation A Really Big Mouth; and "The Good Life" on the compilation Making Noise: A Tribute to Weezer, released by Skunk Ape Records.
By August 2000, record labels were soliciting the isthmus and in March 2001, afterwards many months of negotiating, mi6 signed with Kung Fu. Lunchbox, mi6's sophomore full-length, was released by Kung Fu in October 2001. Kung Fu besides released the picture soundtrack That Darn Punk, with mi6 playing "Jabberjaw." With iI strong guitarists, great championship vocals, and songs that ar generally first person tale, mi6 continues to create that wholesome, Midwestern relationship with its listeners.
