Before The Fall

The Before, Before the Fall

by Rondlyn Hawthorne

1.     Tell us a little bit about your band / group / solo career.  Where and when did you get started;  what was the driving motivation for starting, something about the band /group / solo career that most people do not know?

Michael Gendron attended U.G.A. for Music Theory and Performance and has played in all genres of bands, ensembles, and groups. Michael tends to write most of the music and/or arranges the music and produces it. Jon McGee writes a lot of the rhythmic guitar riffs and helps shape the music, Jon is an avid snowboarder. Jon and Misty are a couple. Misty Silva’s father wrote the theme song for Worcester, MA and has hundreds of jingles for TV and Radio. Misty is mom to two children. Dan Racine plays in two bands. His girlfriend Stephanie works our merchandise table at every show. Nick Brown plays in a few bands of varying genres including a hard core metal band and a jam rock band in addition to Before The Fall

2.     What is your biggest achievement or major accomplishment since you have been performing?

Before The Fall has opened for Hurt, Mudvayne, Non Point. We have played 2-3 sold out shows. We headlined the Charity4Concepts event at the Worcester Palladium.

 

3.     What were your biggest obstacles in obtaining to your goals?

Money is always the obstacle as it costs money to keep the marketing wheel going within a band. Money to buy gear. Money to buy gas, insurance, and rent trailers. Money to rent buses for fans. Money to promote shows.

4.     Besides your own stuff, what music are you currently listening to?

Alice in Chains, Kings of Leon, Drowning Pool, Carnival, Unearth, linkin Park

5.     What community issue or social cause is most important to yourself or the group ?

Music in our school systems – its how most of us developed our music skills by playing instruments in school

 

6.     What have you or your group recently done to give back to the community?

We raised $3,000 for the Firechild program

 

7.     What do you think of Concepts4Charity and our mission of engaging youth in philanthropy through sports and the arts?

We have been fans of it since Jamie Dillon with ECI turned us on to it about 6 months ago

8.     Where do you see yourself or the group in Ten Years?

The group is tight, we are all friends, we all love what we do, we play for joy so we will probably be on our 7th album by then