Roper (band)
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Origin | Five Minute Walk |
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Roper was a
Background
Guerilla Rodeo was a short-lived project founded by Reese Roper, meant to follow his prior band Five Iron Frenzy. In addition to vocalist Reese Roper, the band was formed by fellow Five Iron member Sonnie Johnston (guitar), Ethan Luck (guitar), John Warne (bass, background vocals), and Josh Abbott (drums). The project yielded only a three-track EP, Ride, Rope and Destroy, released in 2004. It has been confirmed by both Ethan Luck and Reese Roper that there never was a fourth, unreleased song recorded for the EP. Reese Roper often compared the sound of the band to Letters to Cleo. Their name was a play on the Rage Against the Machine single "Guerrilla Radio".
When the Guerilla Rodeo project came to an end, Reese reformed the band under his own name, Roper. Roper's full-length album,
Roper issued a statement regarding the status of the band in 2006:
What happened to Roper? Is it dead? - Yes. Roper was a project put together by 5minutewalk records. We had a falling out with them, and are too lazy to start over again. Everyone has real jobs now, and although we miss seeing you all, we are just going to let it die. Unless you are a record company executive that wants to give us an enormous signing bonus and not make us tour.[2]
In 2009 Reese Roper told HM that the probability of making another album was "somewhere around 3%."[3] The Roper project sold close to 30,000 albums in total, about the same as Brave Saint Saturn and other Five Iron related side projects.[3] He also stated that, in retrospect, the project was "doomed from the beginning," but that musically it was the highlight of his career.[3]
Members
- Reese Roper – vocals and synthesizer
- Jonathan Byrnside – guitar
- Matt "Emo" Emmett – guitar
- Johnathan Till – bass guitar
- Nick White – drums
- Stephen Till – guitar
Discography
Year | Album | Billboard Charts [1]
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Position | Reviews |
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2004 | Brace Yourself for the Mediocre | Top Heatseekers | 46 | [4] |
Top Christian Albums | 27 |
References
- ^ McDonald, David (2004-10-25). "Exclusive Interview with Roper". Music Refuge. Retrieved 2004-10-21.
- ^ Roper, Reese (2006-10-10). "Five Iron Sucks". MySpace.com. Retrieved 2006-10-21.
- ^ ISSN 1066-6923.
- ^ Europunk review (Europe, 8 October 2005)
External links
- Roper on Myspace
- Concert review from 2004