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New Red Vox merch store is live on Retroware (along with some mystery merch boxes 👀)!

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Red Vox Before Red Vox

Vinny started playing guitar in 2003, and started writing music in 2004. He and Mike met in college and bonded over a mutual taste in music, including rock bands of many styles and eras, but especially classic rock and grunge.

Vinny was part of a few small bands at this time. He often played guitar for and with his high school friend Bill, even playing bass for Bill as his first gig. Eventually, Vinny and Mike formed a band of their own: Davy’s Grey. Mike was on drums, and Vinny took the role of vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter. A mutual college friend of theirs, Phil, played bass.

Davy’s Grey was primarily a live band, performing sporadic shows before recording seven of their best live songs and compiling them into the 2009 EP No Cigar.

Davy’s Grey was a formative time for the future Red Vox members. Several songs written during this period would make their way onto Red Vox’s earliest releases, including Trolls and Goblins, which was later recorded as a charity incentive in 2015, and Long Lonely Night, the penultimate track on Red Vox’s first full-length album. Several songs off the Red Vox EP Blood Bagel also came from this era; its Bandcamp page credits Phil with “witnessing the real Blood Bagel playing some of these songs with us back in the day.”

Davy's Grey disbanded shortly after the release of No Cigar, beginning a five year period of little musical activity from its former members. Mike took on various drumming gigs, though little came of these ventures. Phil became a solo musician and producer. Vinny primarily focused on his YouTube channel and streaming on Justin.tv, later Twitch.tv – he would, however, release his solo album Sibilants in January 2011, and Odds and Ends, a short collection of Davy’s Grey demos and solo demos, in December 2011.

All the while, Bill – a pianist/keyboardist, vocalist, bassist, guitarist, and probably some other things – was busy playing and writing music. In 2008, he joined the Seconds along with Joe Pecora. The Seconds released their first album Slip Away in 2010 and their second, final album Monstro in 2013. Bill released his solo album Villain in 2010 as well. All three of these albums were recorded, mixed, and produced by Joe. Joe himself played in quite a few local bands – notably, the Sweathogs, which would later evolve into Happy Anarchy (for which he also recorded, mixed, and produced). All of these projects took place at his studio, the Red Room, in Staten Island, NY. Vinny has described him as “a local legend,” a well-earned moniker.

Bill and Joe with the Seconds. First image: Bill on far left and Joe on far right; Second image: Bill on far right, Joe immediately to his left.

Joe (second from left) with Happy Anarchy at Red Room Studio, SINY.

Vinny and Mike reconvened around 2014, deciding to dust off some of their old songs to record. Bill introduced them to Joe, and this simple idea would soon balloon into an album taking a year of their lives to record and costing thousands of dollars to make. What could go wrong?

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remember that funny feeling you couldn't live without?

hello red vox nation have some gifs from an unfinished fan music video for telephone. i shot this footage in like two days for a project last semester but eventually i'm gonna put together a complete version!

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It's in the tunnel vision that affects decision, we're down in a hole And we're telling ourselves that we're going to hell We're going to hell

Released eight years ago today. Happy birthday Atom Bomb!

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rat vox

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Now you know what a mess you're in

Released two years ago today. Happy birthday Visions!

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stranded (background by @telogenic )

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ALBUM EVER❗️❗️💙🖤💚🖤💙🖤💚

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Keep It Together

Gotta keep it together

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forgetter

forgetter

it'll make you feel better

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You got a message from the stars, a transmission through the stratosphere Was it a daydream born on Mars, a sound or vision from a future year?

Released seven years ago today. Happy birthday From The Stars!

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I haven't settled on a meaning of what it is that defines me

Released five years ago today. Happy birthday Kerosene!

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Cause you and me will never be alright I said, if you believe a wrong can make a right Cause you and me will never be in time I said, if you perceive it all in black and white

Released two years ago today. Happy birthday Choking On The Spite!

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Step right up and take a shit

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stranded / from the stars / saturnine

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Here's the artwork for my cover of Red Vox's "Be Someone Forever." It's kinda cringe, but I hope it kinda represents the idea I was going for.

Its actually digitally drawn over a scan of some torn-up paper. All the grime on the edges is digitally drawn, too.

Here's the cover, if you want to give it a listen.

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Red vox but make em a 60s/70s concert poster!