Love Songs is a punk band from San Francisco, CA - featuring ex-members of Your Mother, What Happens Next?, Master Volume, Conquest For Death, MERIS, Anal Mucus, This Is My Fist. http://www.thelovesongs.com 1999 In a rented room somewhere down the street from Jason Newstead Craig sets up his 4-track and records what becomes the Love Songs cassette. Bradley drums on a few of the songs then promptly moves out of state to southern California. 2000 The tape floats around and at one point finds its way into the offices of grindcore record label Impatience Or Indifference who decides "dude, this must be on CD." When the incredulous laughter dies down New Disorder Records seconds the motion and against any instinct of good judgment the cassette is magically and digitally turned into what is now refer to as the Vol. ...show more

Love Songs is a punk band from San Francisco, CA - featuring ex-members of Your Mother, What Happens Next?, Master Volume, Conquest For Death, MERIS, Anal Mucus, This Is My Fist. http://www.thelovesongs.com 1999 In a rented room somewhere down the street from Jason Newstead Craig sets up his 4-track and records what becomes the Love Songs cassette. Bradley drums on a few of the songs then promptly moves out of state to southern California. 2000 The tape floats around and at one point finds its way into the offices of grindcore record label Impatience Or Indifference who decides "dude, this must be on CD." When the incredulous laughter dies down New Disorder Records seconds the motion and against any instinct of good judgment the cassette is magically and digitally turned into what is now refer to as the Vol.

I CD. 2001 Bradley moves back to the Bay Area and for lack of something better to do engages Craig in some "jamming." Since "jamming" is no fun without a bass player to make fun of they call Seth, a kid from Castro Valley who had been coming to shows of their previous band since he was 12. For years they had inadvertently been grooming him for the part (which eventually led to Seth grooming his own parts, but that is another story). Seth turned out to be the perfect bass player - he did what he was told and took abuse with no obvious recourse.

Seth would later prove invaluable for his other expertise in such fields as electronics (fixing amps), contracting work (building our studio), and most importantly, van repair. Even later still, when Seth had to be replaced, it was discovered that he was an exceptionally good bass player as proven by the myriad of not-good-enoughs who tried to fill his shoes. Who knew? 2002 After one show it is obvious that two guitars are needed if Love Songs want any chance at climbing the ladder from "sissy" to "moderately loud." Enter Jackson. At Seth's behest Jackson was brought in because he had the uncanny ability to "play guitar" and serendipitously "was available" to do so. ...show less