In the Beginning…
I figure since the MySpace is fairly up to date I would start off this photographic section right - not with a new expensive photo shoot but with a time of my life that meant a lot to four boys from Long Island.
I grew up with Stage and we started playing at the age of 14 (I’m looking for those photos). These live shots were taken by a high school friend Julia Xanthos (now a real life newspaper photographer like in Spiderman).
It was at one of our last shows together and it somewhat captures what we were about.
The others are from the Maverick Records album photo shoot (Zsolt Sarvary-Bene and Danny Clinch).
The odd one out (you can see my baby picture hanging in the background) was when drummer and nursery school pal Justin Parker (Cortez the Killer) and I were auditioning to be pro wrestlers. Snap into a slim jim!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
cool blog, everything that’s hapenning is so exiting, congratulations!
see you at dewey beach!
March 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Great site here Love your music Ryan and can hardly wait til your next C.D.
Cheers Mate… All the best and Please come back and sing to CANADA ! Huggs.:O)
March 19th, 2008 at 4:15 am
LOVE the snap into a slim jim moment LOL WONDERFUL STUFF!
March 19th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Hey! Ryan,
Always great knowing you’re at the other end of your messages. Hope to see you playing on the west coast again and like soon!!
Peace n hugs,
Trinity
March 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Love the site! Great start so far and I’m so happy to see success coming your way. I was rooting for you from the get-go on “that show”. Nothing but the best to you and we’ll be eagerly following you on your journey!
March 20th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Awesome site.. its great to have one current updated site to follow to make sure i dont miss a step of your journey! Can’t wait till you come back to Toronto Canada where you have tons of fans!
Love and prosper,
Nena
March 20th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
great pics. Love the home page photo-you look awesome and love the backdrop. Have you ever thought of putting your music on Jango-free music online? It’s kind of like Pandora Radio. I don’t know how you get on there but maybe it’s something to look into? Anyway, Love your music, your voice rocks. Love listening to Eye of the Elephant-awesome-your rocking voice with the piano-LOVE it! : ) Looking forward to seeing you live.
Take care.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:27 am
Hi-lar-ious! You have the game face down (and as a weekend warrior I know) for the pro-wrestling gig, however it would be sad if something happened to those piano-playin’ fingers.
I just found you on Chopra’s myspace and now are following you around the internet. You are right; there are pros and cons to this constant connection. But its also pretty darn fascinating…..
Have a good one!
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
your mom used to come in to my starbucks, ( the same one julia worked at) and bragged on and on about you.
i never had heard your music at that time, but now i like it. good job, your mommy was right to brag.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
When are you coming to Wisconsin. My backyard is free to play all summer.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:42 am
There are so many people here commenting stuff. I’m not trying to correct your mistakes, I’m just not agree with any single word
April 30th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Love your music! Hope to see you around NYC/LI soon!
May 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
This post made me sad. I love Stage. A goddamn shame you only released one album. But it is one of the best albums I own. And just last week I accidentally spilled water on it while I was roadtripping for another band and the liner notes got completely soaked. So I let them dry. Now it’s a single solid mass and it’s crispy sounding and I can’t open the pages. I’m going to cry. Clearly I need a new one.
Also, my red Stage shirt with the kite kid is wearing out on me. That just pisses me off, because now I’m down a shirt, and I only do laundry once a week. I’ll need to take it out of rotation and replace it with another one of equal awesomeness. This is bullshit!
So yeah I still miss Stage. Any plans for a reunion show? Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale maybe? Or summer’s coming up, maybe you can do The Bandshell in Northport. Just throwin’ it out there.