Just the Robot - Guitar, Guy Davis - Drums Davey Wayward - Vocals, The Medic (not pictured) - Bass
The shocking tell all ...
So, it's been quite awhile since this things been touched ... but really, fuck, ya know .. that about sums it up, and if that leaves things to vague for you, then check out the long winding tale I'm aboot to tell. And if that still fails to sum it up, then fuck you, you weren't part enough of our lives to understadn, so you probly never will... With that note I bring you a decent history of everything I know about NothingNice, and a history of sorts. It'll help me clear my mind, and get things straight, they arent even straight in my head. Also, it will tell alot of people how I really feel/felt about them.
NothingNice started out back in the summer of 2002 as the Wayward kids. I had just gotten my first guitar and Bryan didnt even own a bass, but had the desire to learn. After a few years of me nagging Bryan into it, he talked at work to Jesse who also played guitar and decided that me and Jesse combined was enough to sway him. So we were born as a band...
We spent a lot of time working on shit, talking about shit, and just anything band related we did .. we were excited. However, as the things went, we formed a friendship that I to this day don't think could ever be more powerfull. I met Bryan back in 3rd grade and he's been my best friend ever since. I met Jesse when back when I was in 7th grade, eh stopped bullies from picking on me back when I was weak, and that's still the best thing anyone has ever done for me, considering he didnt know me at the time that it began.To this day I am glad that after the band broke up, I still know these fine men, and I would sooner die before that friendship we forged dulled out.
Anyways, we realized along the way that some things wouldn't work out band wise. At the time Jesse was great with guitar, but I had a lot of problems with creativity and timing as far as the guitar was concerned, and Bryan couldn't focus on the bass enough. One rainy night, I proposed to Jesse that we talk to Bryan about singing, we both decided that it was the thing to do, and so it happend. Untill the end of the band Bryan had a lot of self esteem issues as far as his voice goes, but it was golden, he was born to be a frontman. One night while goofing around on my cousin Ben's drums, they heard me and realized that's what I needed to be doing in the band. I bought a drumset from a charming girl named Jill, and then we were truely a band.
It seems every band has one instrument that just never works out ... the players always die or quit or something, and that spot is constantly open. For us, it was bass. We went through a lot of cats on that ol bass guitar, and the most promising and noteworthy was Lucas Liming. He was a friend of Bryan and mine's through high school, and so we gave him a try, the same day he came, played, and we all decided he was in. Luke was never flashy, never really amazing or anything, but he played everything right, learned fast, and had a spirit that went well with us. Most importantly, he was a good friend, and that's what is really important.
Our first show was a batle of the bands at Benner field house in Xenia. We had a lot of big plans that didnt work out, and we had one week before the show with nothing to bring to it. Within that one week we got Luke, wrote 5 songs, learend a few covers, and were actually ready. Thats the mostamazing thing I think any one of us has ever done, andI still think it came from friendship, We all knew each other so well from the whole experience, and I wouldnt have it any other way. From there on out we suddenly had fans, a suprisingly large number, and we were official, hell, we got second over established bands, being beaten only by Hand of Karma, who are good friends of ours and could win first at a national level, they definately deserved it. But us as second place? wow... it was a good start for sure.
With that under our belt we began to buckle down. We started with the website, made practices more often, wrote alot ... and started playing shows out in Dayton.It was our peak as a band as well as friends, we were unstopable. I still think it was the best days of my life. Everyone was getting into so many new and fun things. We all sudenly found love and lets jsut say many virginities were lost, hearts were broken and remended, and lessons were learned. Plus we all began to make the out of school transformation, finding jobs and what we wanted to be in life ... it was by far the stereotypical year after graduating, but Jesse was allready out and Luke still had Junior and Senior years.
After awhile, Luke began to get more and more into drugs. He allready was when we met him, but we managed to get him to kick a lot of terrible habits when he became friends with us. Yet, after awhile, the call of somereally bad things began to be too much for him, and we eventuallylost him as a bandmate due to some nasty habits. I'm glad to say were still friends and talk to him, and hes gotten better about a lot of things too, gotten over some nasty stuff no 16 year old should ever have to dabble in.
During our stint with Luke, we played some fun shows, had some fun tiems, and met some fun people. To anyone who saw us at thsi peak, I thank you and feel you were a part, even if small, of what may be the best chapter of my life in the years to come. I would also like to mention that it was this point at which we met a band and played many a shows with them who went by the name of Vermiscious Knid. They were a phonomenol band, and I still respect them and talk to them when i get a chance. they were a big influence in our life band, and friendhips, even there friend Bubs, heheh.
eventually the band began a nasty downward spiral, we tried many bass players and nothing worked as well as Luke did. We began to theaten quitting to each other and start talking behind each others backs, and just bad stuff like that, we grew out of it, but not without some creepy emotional scars. Then Josh from Vermiscious Knid and a broken band we played with called lLast in Line got together, and they formed the new Last in Line. We hung out with them often. and had some good times with them. We began to play again and remend the friendship, we were doing very well and having fun.
at this point we decided to have Bryan's brother Tim who we had been hanging out with more and more play bass. He didn't know how to, but we decided we could teach him, and he actually learned well... plus he fit in well, and was another new good friend. We were a band again...
*Note: from here on out it's half band bio, and half me getting personal things off my chest."
I met a girl named Jenthrougha friend and began to hang out with her. One night will giving her a funny bio of my sad love life she decided to hook me up with a friend of hers. I had a big party, invited everyone cool, and met quite a few of her friends. They pushed me on a girl named Rachel, and she taught me what it is to feel. Sadly, I didnt teach her the same things, and it was the state of emotional distress I was in that caused me to sortof pull away from everyone. While her and her friends grew more attached to the band, it sorta of pushed me away from them. I mean this as no insult to anyone, It was my fault for being childish, but the rejection that came with her and my newfound sense of being able to feel because of her made em grow up fast. I had a very rough childhood and actually basically became an adult at the age of 12, in every aspect but with feeling love for someone, and this is where I coped with that last bit, and became a man after a night at a party at Last in Lines house vomiting and crying ... very emo times indeed. But to anyone who was there, we had some good times that night anyways. and for Jesse, Bryan, and Jen ... "Fuck Robert Smith! *sob*..."
the more this time made us grow apart for very stupid reasons, everyone took the time to remake themselves almost. Bryan spent his time with his girlfriend, my littlesiter Luci, and they are still together, and I couldn't be happier for that, they deserve each other, as great, fun people. and he got a lot of work at Barnes and Nobles, and really grew up in many ways. Jesse got a job with Blockbuster, got a girlfriend, moved, began talking to new people and having fun. Tim was wrapped up in school, and hanging with his new friends and his new job. I began doing a lot of work with my friend Kenny. He taught me the music buisness and I loved it, it was all the work I ever wanted. I also began to talk more to a friend named Dan Coale, who I had talked to a little for a few months about music, mainly local, and realized he was an amazing combination of every member of our band. He had all of my drive in music and the industry, Bryan's love of punk and political drive, and Jesse's sense of being a child (in a good way) at the perfect times, and adult at the times where that's perfect as well. Ill get more into him later.
We started to all hang out again and though none of us have out and said it, were all diffrent, not better or worse, just diffrent We've grown up completely, were men. We have diffrent wants and needs then we did atthe time. And thats not nessisarily a bad thing... though it saddend me to the point of despair, and pure anger at the same time. since then Ive thought about it, and really it's just human nature. What we had was brief, but it doesnt mean our friendhsip cant go on, so I began to talk to them again. We realized the band was over, and everyone began to adjust to this. again, I have no clue about the rest of the bands exact thought's, but I think it's a given that I was hurt the most by this. I lived for the band. I loved it and thought of it every moment of every day.
It was about this point that Last in Line also broke up. they had a lot of the same diffrences, and being a band any longer was just self destructive. Suddenly, these two great bands who were good friends were broken. It was a very sad thing to see, as some great things died in those days. I took my time to ponder the great mysteries of life, who I am, what I want, things like that. I ended up starting a production company with Kenny, and were having a blast with it. I also began to talk to Dan on a regular daily basis, and we started a band. As i write, we are still getiing kinks worked out with some minor things, but I think that we really have something special, expect us to come out this Spring for shows with a wierd fusion of Hardcore ... Punk ... and Ska.
you can find out more as it becomes available at www.geocities.com/middleclassriot.
One day while looking at Last in Lines old site for kicks... I found out that the other 3 members of NothingNice had jumped with all the old members of Last in Line, minus one. and Become a 6 man band who are I belive going with the name "Spitting Teeth". I was really sad to find out that way that they reformed and everything, but oh well, that's life. I don't really blame them for kicking me out in such a manor, because we had a lot of diffrent ideas of what a band should be. Both sides had good ideas, but were stubborn and young at the time. The rest of the band had a habit of being slackers at times with practices and shows, which didn't go well with the fact that I was in love with the band. I made a point of trying to practice everyday, and have shows all the time. For every bit of band lazyness in them, there was double that in me in the form of being to overdriven. I overdid a lot and Ive changed since then. I appologize to the band for all the times I was a taskmaster. Someone had to be the bad guy, but maybe I was too good of it, I bitched alot about a lot of things that I will still say are important at the time, but are really trivial now. The new band of theirs has both Bryan and Tim singing, which should be good. Matt and Jesse playign guitar which is definately great, Jims drumming, who is a ball of energy and puts it all into hsi craft, and Josh, who was always THEE bassist, playing bass for them, its what he does and he's great at it. You can check them all out at www.lastinlinerock.com. I hope they play shows soon and that many of those shows are with Middle Class Riot and are some good fun times.
In sumary, the best days of my life were with that band, and I hope to recreate them with the new band and being friends with Spitting Teeth. the sad thing is I know no matter what, while I can come close, Nothing will ever muster up the same magic and friendship and something special we had as a band. I owe my life to every member of that band a million times over, despite our petty diffrences. For every little thing diffrent in us we squabbled over, there are 10 things we have in common that we need to get back in touch with. I love you guys forever, no matterwhat the future holds, and I want you to know that. Heres to us, and the times we had. Like Jesse Michaels said .... We wrote our own game, and went our own way... were rebels in a lot of ways, and that made for good times, we didnt fall into the conventional local band thing thats in everyone else in this scene. and I think that since you guys have what you want in a band and I have what I want, the two bands together are gonna have some times taking on therest of the world that will be downright fun and amazing. So Dayton scene, be ready, were gonna defy all the rules together, and have some good good times.
I would also like to say to anyone who was in my life at the time this band was going, thank you. From the time that my senior year began and we formed the band, to this very night when I played some catch up with Bryan, who is and will always be my best friend, was a big learning experience for me. I learned all about feelings, friendhsip, love, good times and bad. It was the best thing that ever happend to me, and I blame it on everyone, no matter how much of a minescule part they played. All of Last in Line, NothingNice, Spitting Teeth, Hand of Karma, Catalyst-theory, Orange Willard, Shoat, Divided Road, and any band i forgot that we rocked it with have been my friends and helped form me. Also thanks to the band girls, Katie, Ronda, Jen, and Rachel, you guys taught me much, good and bad, heheh. plus some other random friends and family who taught me alot about life. There's too many to mention, but some importants would be Anna and Amber, Kayti, Nate and Danny, Andy Knight, Christina and her friends from yucky Beavercreek, Kelsey in Pennsylvania, Dan Coale, Aunt Tammy for always supporting as much as possible, and of course, all the show kids who went to us and other local bands shows, and supported the scene. I love you all and hope to keep you in my future, so that I may keep learning and living and loving.
Thats basically everything I've wanted to say for awhile now in a form everyone can see easily without me repeating myself. I feel better having done it and hope it means I can officially begin a new chapter in mylife. the new job, the new friends, the new band, and most importantly, the old friendships i formed, which I want to go on forever, with al the aforementioned people, especially Spitting Teeth. I hope everyone enjoys reading this as much as I did writing, and as much as I did LIVING it. I can look back at all the times, good and bad, and be happy with myself and my life.
Untill we meet again...
Dustin
This new linep consists of:
Bryan Spradlin (Davey Wayward)
*VOCALS*
Dusty Pitstick (Guy Davis)
*DRUMS / BACUP VOCALS*
Jesse Griffin (that robotic fellow)
*GUITARS*
...and introducing...
Tim Spradlin (The Medic)
*BASS/BACKUP VOCALS*
This lineup is allready hotness and were writing like a million songs a night ... expect to hear from us soon, in both live form with a newer sound (harder/faster/more intricate) and on our recording (to be finished very soon and produced by Kenny the Assassin from HandOfKarma) which will be available for sale from this site, and of course at our shows.
Untill next time...
Guy Davis
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