The Mollusk Story
The creators of Mollusk were Ray Lara and Rob Belt. However, it started off as Cronus, but when Mollusk became Mollusk, it wasn't quite what Ray and Rob had expected. The music of Cronus started off having 2 sides: one was sweet and the other was mean. When Jason entered the equation, the sweet side became sweeter and softer. When Tommy entered the equation, the mean side became meaner and louder! With this as their format (real sweet, soft songs, and real mean, loud songs) they had weird feelings on stage for their first show switching back and forth. Something had to change. They had to either get rid of the soft songs or the loud songs. The soft songs were then thrown away and Mollusk arose as a hard hitting jugernaut of sound. Mollusk was a hardworking band that recorded one live album and a 2-song demo, played a ton of gigs in a short amount of time, and rehearsed constantly. The band got a decent review from insight magazine for their live album "Live at Room 710". Mollusk played so many gigs that they can't list them even if they could remember all of them (not true). At the peak of Mollusk the boys made it out to Dallas, TX to play 2 gigs in one night. They played on a "Deep Friday" at the Galaxy Club in Deep Ellum and some other club around the corner that was in transition of names (we didn't remember its instantaneous name). The band went through some tough times after the Dallas trip and Tommy decided he had had enough and regretfully resigned. With the love for playing still effecting Rob, Jason, and Ray (not that it didn't effect Tommy) they asked Everette Cavazos to play with Mollusk for some important gigs. Those gigs were at Treasure Island (6th St.) on the first day of South by Southwest '03 and CD Wharehouse (W. Airport Dr.) on Saturday during South by Southweast '03 with Local H. Jason and Rob became good friends throughout the life of Mollusk. When the band split-up, Jason and Rob decided to continue playing music together and formed Red Volution. |
