Marx Revolution

Punk / Ska / Metal

Southington, CT

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About

Marx's Bio: The short-ass version:

Hailing from all over Connecticut and Massachusetts, Marx Revolution is seven fine gentlemen playing "whatever we want," and have been since 2004.

Marx's Bio: The long-ass version:

Marx Revolution formed in early 2004 when Gary met Guido in Principles of Economics II the

first semester of their freshman year at the University of New Haven. One day Gary asked

Guido if he wanted to start a punk band and Guido responded "Yea, sure." Guido knew some

people at home that he had previously worked with and asked them if they wanted to play.

Josh was very excited to join and couldn't wait to start. Brett, however, only responded

"Whatever." He did not want to be in the band, he was just helping out Guido and Josh until

they found a replacement. Oddly enough Brett is now a core part of Marx Revolution and Josh

had to go to Afghanistan and is sadly no longer a part of the band.

The band started off as just a four piece punk band. The first rough mixes and ideas for

songs came from leftover lyrics and parts from both Staplesore and Go By Bus, Gary and

Guido's former bands respectively. There was a song about a guy named james who bought so

many drugs that he helped the economy, and a mandatory song for the time bashing president

Bush. These two, with an early attempt at ska-metal called metalliska, a super punk rock

anti-establishment song called tape song(because it was recorded on a tape...yeah. no

seriously), and covers of pennywise, NOFX, and a cover of an old Staplesore tune called

'Kingdom Come' rounded off Marx's early sets.

Once the band had these songs down and was ready to book shows, they needed a name. Many

names, some good, some terrible(who is shteven?), were thrown around. One day,Gary got a

instant message saying that the band name would be Marx Revolution. Under a decent amount of

protest because of the connotation of the name, it eventually stuck and followed them to

their first show in a kid named Jay's basement in Agawam, MA, Gary's home town.

In order to enter into the battle of the bands at the University of New Haven, a demo was

neccesary. Having none, we decided to record a five-song demo named 'box'. This had shotty

recordings of'james', 'G.W.B.', 'Tape Song', 'Metalliska', and a new version of 'kingdom

come', which became a mainstay in marx's sets for many years. At the end of 2004, before the

last show of the year, Gary's high school friend Justin was added as the trombone player.

The band felt that they were ridiculous so in early 2005 they decided to kick it up a notch

and added Gary and Guido's friend from college, Forgy. Forgy played flute and had a wireless

mini-guitar. It was quite the act to see.

In Spring 2006, the band was holding on by a thread. The band was without a drummer because

he had just left for Afghanistan. Their friend Anthony tried to help the band by playing

drums but it just wasn't his style. Then an few awesome things happened that spring. The

band added 2 new members. Fillmore was an old friend of Brett and Guido from high school who

could shred at guitar. Claps was a friend from a band that Marx had played with many times.

Things quickly came together and better than ever.

In fall 2006, the band slowly started to record their full length album Spaceship

Knifefight. And in January of 2007, Marx Revolution went on their first east coast tour with

their friends the Attractive Gentlemen. And in the following spring, the band picked up sax

player, Hibbs.

Marx Revolution has gone through a few member changes and has finally started to create

their own sound. But no matter what changes, we will, and still are... doing whatever we

want.

Visitor Map:

Buy Our Shit:

SPACESHIP KNIFEFIGHT NOW AVAILABLE AT:

Culter's

27 Broadway
New Haven, CT

Merle's Record Rack

1 Old Tavern Rd (Right off of post road)
Orange, CT

Replay Records

2586 Whitney Ave
Hamden, CT

Exile on Main Street

267 E Main St
Branford, CT

BUY LOCALLY. IF YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE IS NOT ON THIS LIST, DROP US A LINE AND ASK THE STORE TO CARRY IT. THE SMALL GUYS NEED ALL THE HELP THEY CAN GET.

but if you live far away...

Booking:

For booking, message us via Myspace

or e-mail: marxrev@yahoo.com

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