January 18
Reality Club was first called Soldiers of Faith. Yes, extremely gay, but when you're 14, and extremely involved in your church's youth group, it sounds really cool. The band was only me and Matt Wilks, who was my best friend in Junior High and early Highschool years.
Matt and I were inspired to learn to play our instruments (me on guitar and Matt on bass) from a church trip we went on in the summer of 1992. While the younger kids (us) had to sit towards the front of the bus, all the older kids sat at the back. What was neat about it was that most of the older kids were musicians and they sat around playing their acoustic guitars to U2's Joshua Tree album and others.
Matt and I felt like once these older kids graduated, we had to fill their shoes. Thus we began to learn how to play our instruments. We started the band and had a few songs like Roots and Spiritual Mask. We later had a keyboard player named Josh Stafin play with us as well as Tom Liscomb on a second Bass. We liked a band called Ned's Atomic Dustbin where they had 2 bass players so we thought we would try it.
We knew a guy named Kevin Edwards, who was a few years older than us, but he could play drums and he went to the same church as me and Matt. So we had our first practice where we played a few songs in the summer of 1994. We thought we were big stuff. It was great.
Joey was living with his mother in an apartment near the highschool and one day after school, we were watching MTV and I picked up a magazine. I don't remember what the magazine was, but there was an article and at the top it read Reality Check. At first I thought it said Reality Club, and then after I realized I read it wrong, I thought Reality Club would be a cool name for a band. At that point, I called Matt and told him the new name I heard and we both agreed the new name of the band was: Reality Club.
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September 28
An old copy of Reality Club's first demo has surfaced and it's now on the site for you to enjoy, laugh at, your choice.
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June 15
Spring 1997 - Reality Clulb breaks up after performing 76 total shows, mostly all in Texas. Joey joins Spy Glass Blue then Lewis and finally Chris Tomlin. Tom and Travis join Hudson Taylor. Tom later joins Vine and Travis joins Glisten. Mark joins a band called Cosmic Shimmer then later starts a solo project called Ptolemy, later renamed Steamboat.
Fall 1996 - All the members go off to college, however the band continues to play in the area since people keep coming to the shows. Reality Club opens for P.O.D., Grammatrain, and Soulfood 76.
Summer 1996 - Reality Club plays many more shows including Six Flags over Texas where Mark and Joey get thrown out of the park for jumping in front of the train. Also Reality Club plays at the Cornerstone Festival in Illinois on 5 Minute Walk Record's stage.
Spring 1996 - Reality Club writes lots of new material and records its first full legnth album, 3 Penny Tray. 100 copies are sold at the CD release show in Watauga. All the members graduate from Keller High School. Blue Suede and Water get heavy play on what is now known as 89.7 PowerFM. Blue Suede is still played from time to time on the station.
Fall 1995 - Reality Club plays at Coca-Cola Starplex (later called Smirnouf Center) before Audio Adrenaline, Six Pence None the Richer, Johnny Q Public, and The Prayer Chain. The band later opens for bands such as Glisten, Seven Day Jesus, Between Thieves, and Dime Store Prophets. Joey Parish is the new drummer.
Summer 1995 - A small following begins for the band. The band is performing just about every weekend. Reality Club opens for Poor Old Lu. Matt Wilkes quits the band on bass.
Spring 1995 - Tony D'Anza is the new drummer. The band records a 6 song demo called Realm in Mark's bedroom. 100 copies are made on cassette and sold at shows. The band begins to get more shows.
Fall 1994 - Reality Club's first ever show. Band members were Matt Wilks (bass), Kevin Edwards (drums), Travis Scott (guitar), Tom Liscomb (bass), and Mark Smith (vocal,guitar).
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posted Feb 27