Almost Sober

It started in October ’04 with Jim and Lucas writing songs and auditioning drummers and lead guitarists for about 4 months. In January, we got our rehearsal studio in downtown Portland and continued to audition players but to no end seeing how we could not find the right players that were on the same page and as versatile and open minded musically as we were, not worried about what was hot at the time, just wanting to do what we wanted, not what someone thought we should be doing.

Then we brought in Scitty and Tommy to complete Almost Sober. Scitty and Lucas played together in the past as did Jim and Tommy through out the years. After a few months of rehearsal and added writing, we had our first show together May 6th at The Ash Street Saloon. Soon after, we spent the entire summer playing at parties, Saturday Market, and The Roseland.

Soon after, we hit the studio to record our debut CD, Almost Sober. With spring coming on, we had our CD release party at the Roseland Bar and Grill with attendance close to 500 people. Summer ’06 ended up being really packed for us with shows booked throughout the summer and beyond. We are now on a compilation CD with Perris Records with our song “That’s Life” which was picked up and distributed by Select-o-Hits. So far the feedback is excellent for our CD with every musical crowd really enjoying the mixture of songs and styles that we do, with the high energy rhythms and catchy-sing-along lyrics, to the dark and heart felt ballads, all the way to the party songs filled with reckless abandon and drunken mayhem. We are now in the process of re-mixing our first CD, as well as working on our follow up CD. The future is bright for the band, and the new songs keep getting better with every chord, beat, and lyric.

Almost Sober doesn’t want to change the world, we just want to party with it and enjoy life to the fullest!