Biography
Tombstones In Their Eyes is John Treanor (guitar, vocals, keyboards, songwriter), Josh Drew (guitar, bass, backing vocals) and Mike Mason (bass). The band was started as a cross-country basement demo project by John (in LA), and long-time friend, James Cooper (in NY). Collaborating via Dropbox and using Garageband, they recorded about 25-30 demos. John then recruited local friends Josh and Sam to fill out the project for recording, and they went into the studio. Recording and mixing the first record, Sleep Forever, record took about 2 years. The songs were recorded in Los Angeles at Kingsize Soundlabs and Kitten Robot studios. At Kitten Robot, where the band originally went for mixing, they developed a great relationship with the owner, Paul Roessler (who has been in too many bands to mention them all, including The Screamers, 45 Grave, Deadbeats, Nina Hagen, etc.). Paul really helped get the songs to where they needed to be, understanding what the band was going for. There are a variety of “genres” on the first record, psych rock, garage, rock, acoustic, singer/songwriter, but Paul helped them to all sound like they belonged together.
For the next record, the Bad Clouds EP, the band went back to Kitten Robot and recorded/mixed the whole project with Paul. Sam was unavailable, so Stephen Striegel was brought in on drums. Josh Drew was on bass again and added his distinctive touch to the songs. The record was done much faster than Sleep Forever, and has a fuller and more confident sound. The songs on Bad Clouds deal with depression, anxiety, suicide, loss and similarly uplifting topics. The Tombstones sound and content tends to land on the dark side of the tracks.
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John has been in various LA-based bands, including The Sawdust Caesars (garage rock), The Boxing Lesson (space rock), Satellyte (garage/psych), Spiral Arms (psych rock) and Violet Hex (dark rock and roll).
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