Glasseater Basketball Jersey

For a hot minute, Glasseater was a pretty big deal. The band was all over the country touring and releasing records with different labels. They had a pretty consistent lineup and in my opinion, their early work is their best.

I'm having trouble remembering when this was printed up but I'm pretty sure it was between the release of their debut EP "Miles Ahead of Where We Left Off" and their solo Eulogy Recordings outing, "7 Years Bad Luck". This is being based on the bands logo which was changed after they moved to Fearless Records (and cleaned up previously for the Eulogy release). The "GE" circular logo was used on their Ides of March release as the disc art but never after that.

These were printed on a Champion jerseys (weren't they all?) and if memory serves also were printed on white. The band was a straight edge band for most of their existence as shown by the back print and their "sideproject" Glassuck. I guess you can call it a side project, they only recorded one song which was a hidden track on their debut EP. The lyrics for the song were "With this X on my hand, I stay clean (or free)".  Good times in South Florida...

On Bodies (members of Culture, As Friends, etc) Posts 2 Song Sampler

You may or not have heard that I am doing a new band with members of Culture, As Friends Rust, Shai Hulud and Glasseater. Well our record comes out on February 14, 2012 and we have uploaded a 2 song sampler from that record. We have a blog to keep you guys updated on what's happening with us so if you have a free minute, check it out and see what you think. We're also on Facebook

On Bodies - 2 Song EP Sampler

On Bodies - New band featuring members of Terror, Culture, As Friends Rust and more

Some of you may have heard but I started a band with Rich Thurston (ex-Culture, Terror, etc) and Damien Moyal (ex-Culture, Shai Hulud, Morning Again, As Friends Rust). The band is called On Bodies and we recently recorded a 6 song EP which should be available in October. The band is rounded out as well by Chad Kishick (Know The Score, Shai Hulud) and Julio Marin (Glasseater, Destro, Dance Floor Justice) as well as myself on guitar. Give it a listen, see what you think. We currently have one song up to check out on Bandcamp and should have another up later this week.

On Bodies on Bandcamp

On Bodies on Facebook

Glasseater Reunion in Miami, July 31

When Miami's Glasseater broke up, they never played a final show. Fast forward 5 years and here we are. The band is playing its reunion/final show at the end of the month in Miami and will feature both Jason on vocals as well as Julio. The band plan to play a variety of material spanning their entire career. Here's what the band has to say:

Glasseater's final/reunion show. We have been talking about this for over 5 years and now everything has finally fallen into place to where it can happen.

Other bands on the lineup:
Hit Play!
Arsenal 88
Homestretch
Furious Dudes

Come party/dance/mosh with us at Churchills as we give the band an official goodbye.

We will be playing a crazy long set covering every aspect of the bands life. Jason will be singing all the old songs and Julio will be singing all the new ones. We have a bunch of surprises and can't wait for this night to come.

Glasseater - Miles Ahead of Where We Left Off and Demos

As I was leaving school today, I decided to put on Glasseater, a band I hadn't heard in quite some time. My old band, Destro, shared members with them and were extremely good friends for quite some time until we had a falling out (one which will not be explained so please don't even ask). When they started out, they had a sound somewhat in the vein of New Day Rising with the whole singing/screaming melodic with breakdowns sound. They really blew up in South Florida in 1999 and to be honest, their shows were great. Jason is still one of my favorite frontmen ever in a hardcore band and that still holds up to this day. They released their first record on Matt Fox's "Ides of March Records", followed by a signing to Eulogy Recordings. One record released through Eulogy, they signed to Fearless who re-released their Eulogy debut. After that, they signed to Victory and then the band ran its course. I have many fond memories of seeing them play Club Q in Davie, FL. to hundreds of kids going nuts singing along and spin kicking as well as a memory of myself accidentally spin kicking Dennis Pace of Forever And A Day square in the face (oh the days when I used to "mosh"). After Jason was kicked out/asked to leave, the band just wasnt the same for me. Julio, the drummer turned singer, did a great job as he had/has a great singing as well as screaming voice but Jason had the stage presence. Anyway, heres what I have uploaded for you today...first is the EP turned full length "Miles Ahead of Where We Left Off" originally released on Ides of March Records then re-released on Dead Droid Records out of Detroit with 2 additional tracks, at the time a new song "Weekend Sellout" and an acoustic version of "Words To Make Up" that was originally released on "7 Years Bad Luck". Make sure to check out the song "24 For Life" which is at the end of the song "Breakaway". It was a grindcore song that they wrote under the name "GlassSuck" (a play on Glasseater and Assuck). This record has been out of print for at least 6 years and it really is a shame. Next we have the original demo which featured the songs "Rosewater", Smartboy" and "Princess". The original version of Rosewater has a sample from the movie "Sleepers" which was omitted from the re-recording for the "Miles..." records. Lastly, we have a demo track for the song "Face to the Floor" which was recorded at Miami Dade Community College in 1999 for the bass player Anthony's sound recording class. It was written for a comp that Lovitt Records was releasing dedicated to Ric Flair. They didnt make the cut to be on the record but I prefer this version to the re-recorded one on "Miles...". Jason was still learning how to sing but he knew how to scream his head off and it shows. The song is also played faster. I hope you enjoy this as much I did...nice to go back and revisit the past. Also if anyone has any old Glasseater shirts they'd be interested in selling (especially the Glasseater Kids design), please get in touch.

Glasseater - Miles Ahead of Where We Left Off (reissue)

Glasseater - Demo

Glasseater - Demo 2