<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676863845313704192.post-6704229397916342688</id><published>2008-06-27T21:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-27T21:37:10.753-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mellowdrone</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://emp3-download.org/artist10152/Mellowdrone_mp3/" title="Mellowdrone"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.mp3fiesta.com/covers/10/10152/art_10152_big.jpg" align="left" border="0" alt="Mellowdrone"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Artist:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://emp3-download.org/artist10152/Mellowdrone_mp3/"&gt;Mellowdrone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Genre(s):&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Indie&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br clear="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discography:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://emp3-download.org/album32573/Go-Get-Em-Tiger_mp3_download/" title="Go Get Em Tiger"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.mp3fiesta.com/covers/10/10152/alb_32573_th.jpg" align="left" border="0" alt="Go Get Em Tiger"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://emp3-download.org/album32573/Go-Get-Em-Tiger_mp3_download/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go Get Em Tiger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Year:&amp;nbsp;2004&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Tracks:&amp;nbsp;6&lt;br clear="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;Though the Venezuelan-born, Miami-bred guitar player and star vocalist of Mellowdrone, Jonathan Bates, had been playing the instrument since a nipper, it wasn't until he got to Berklee School of Music that he realised he was plainly a technically good guitar player, and didn't actually &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; often about music. At geezerhood 20, and a class before graduating, Bates left Boston and moved to Los Angeles to begin badly composing and recording his own music. His 2003 self-released EPs, &lt;strong&gt;A Demonstration of Intellectual Property&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Go Get 'Em Tiger&lt;/strong&gt;, the latter recorded with Tony DeMatteo on guitar, Scott Ellis on drums, and Greg Griffith on bass voice, caught the attention of early Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, world Health Organization invited Bates, under the bring up Mellowdrone, to open for him during his approaching tour. When Bates had finished acting with Marr, Tony DeMatteo rejoined Mellowdrone, and after a feverish touring schedule with bands like the Killers, Elbow, and Secret Machines, the radical gestural to 3 Records/Red Ink in 2005. Their number one full-length album, &lt;strong&gt;Box&lt;/strong&gt;, came out the following year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3676863845313704192-6704229397916342688?l=botolphgord0213.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676863845313704192/posts/default/6704229397916342688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676863845313704192/posts/default/6704229397916342688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://botolphgord0213.blogspot.com/2008/06/mellowdrone.html' title='Mellowdrone'/><author><name>botolphgord0213</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08114047378649912541</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08506915278165016283'/></author></entry>