I was in awe of those guys. But my best friend, he had a guitar, and he went into the garage right after my graduation party and plugged it in. "When I met him, I'd been a guitar player around, and at first I thought, 'He's not even that good. ' "I'm, uh, a very emotional person, " confides Grigson. How American can you get? After getting burned early with a studio experience, Grigson read about 40 self-help music books, got a loan, built a home studio, incorporated his own label, and set to work recording the CD that became Neccos For Breakfast's debut, Blue Hair Day (Pelican Records). Early last Saturday night at the Blind Lemon, the group celebrated the release of its debut album with an all-ages show that sold-out 400 tickets two weeks in advance.
It's just this guy strumming an acoustic guitar at a party, and everybody knows his lyrics. " I don't even know if it was a chord. Neccos For Breakfast has been played on 88. Rob Hayes, who has become Grigson's callused right hand, adds his own accomplished guitar work and controlled vocals throughout, and at the Blind Lemon, he even closed the show with his own "Carl, " an ode to mistaken identity that is a great joke and then some. When you come to an NFB concert, be prepared for a high energy, crowd pleasing display punctuated by a soulful ballad or two! It was, in fact, the classic innocent-rock-and-roll mix – which is to say, it was about as underground as a crowd at an Indians game or Flats disco. How else to explain the bizarre popularity of a band that has played no more than half a dozen public gigs? I tried and she said, 'Oh, you can't sing. Some of these women came in clusters, others with clean-cut boyfriends in polo shirts and white baseball caps. "I see all these [national acts] who have natural singing ability and just spew crud, " says Grigson in a coffee shop after the Blind Lemon show.
Their debut LP, "Blue Hair Day", was released on April 20, 2001. Members: Daniel Grigson: Guitars, Vocals Neal Bryant: Bass, Vocals Rael Bryant: Vocals Mark Grigson: Drums Ethan Ridgeway: Keyboards, Piano Similar Artists/Influences: Weezer, Blur, The Beatles, Matthew Sweet, They Might Be Giants, Third Eye Blind, Special Goodness, Wilco. And he just went 'Waooah! " It's all about therapy. " I'm just bursting with lyrics, I love music, and I can't sing. " Not listening to anything? At first, many of those lyrics were actually poems. And, finally, Neccos For Breakfast wants to play their music for YOU. "And then there's me. Neccos For Breakfast won the Peabody's Battle Of The Bands, defeating 35 other bands. Try one of the ReverbNation Channels.
So I just never did it. Neccos For Breakfast, on the other hand, was started as nothing more than an obsessive home-studio project by Daniel Grigson, a 24-year-old, self-employed office cleaner who freely admits that he lacks both high polish and pyrotechnics. Neccos For Breakfast is a modern rock/alternative band from Cleveland, Ohio. Their mission is simple: To write songs that really mean something, music that rocks, songs that effect people. As simple as they are, they're so cool!
But he's got these songs that you just love. REVIEW: Cleveland Free Times CONFECTIONARY POWER: THE HOMEMADE CANDY POP OF NECCOS FOR BREAKFAST by Franklin Soults Neccos for Breakfast proves that the innocent thrill of rock and roll will last as long as America does – even if innocence ain't what it used to be. Though the singer/guitarist comes from a musically accomplished family, he had always been discouraged from attempting to perform.
And he's got this following. So I wrote a song before I could even play. " "My grandma sings in a big band, my dad played in rock bands, and my grandpa was one of the original Four Freshmen. A self-professed fan of tongue-in-cerebellum pop bands like They Might Be Giants and, above all, Weezer, Grigson made the disc sprightly, lightly punky and full of complex pop twists. The results are so simple, diverse and enthusiastic that jaded 21st-century ears might hear an ironic catch where there is none. "It is about therapy, " agrees the group's cheerful bassist, Billy Bradford. Judging by the hand-stamping at the door, their ages ranged from high school to mid-20s, though there was a sizable percentage of full-blown grownups, too (some obviously parents, but not all). They all talk about lost love. They blend guitar driven riffs and solid beats with tight harmonies and catchy melody lines.